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Apr 4, 2012
Kinder Morgan opens ethanol pipeline
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Apr 5, 2012
Energy company Maple Energy has opened its ethanol plant in Peru, although its electric power generation facilities are not yet open.
The company is harvesting and processing sugarcane, which it will turn into ethanol in its new facility.
Throughout this year, the amount of sugarcane that will be harvested and processed in the plant will grow during the second quarter.
The... [Read More]
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Apr 5, 2012
The Watsonville Planning Commission has approved use and design permits for a new biodiesel production facility in California.
The plant, which will be owned by North Star Biofuels, will be run by seven local residents and produce 65,000 gallons a day of biodiesel.
The project will be built on 19,000 sq ft and follows developments at the company’s test facility which... [Read More]
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Apr 5, 2012
Algae.Tec says it will open its biofuel production facility in Australia by the end of April 2012. So far the cement platform structure and plumbing has been built at the Shoalhaven One showcase facility, and it is now ready for the containerised bioreactor technology to be installed.
The bioreactors are being built at the Algae Development & Manufacturing Centre in... [Read More]
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Apr 10, 2012
The US government says it is to give $35 million (€27 million) towards the research and development of advanced biofuels, bioenergy and bio-based products.
Through the Biomass Research and Development Initiative (BRDI), a joint programme established by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the US Energy Department, the project hopes to create more sources of... [Read More]
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Apr 10, 2012
Scientists at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute have created a draft genome of a marine algae sequence which will help scientists across the US to discover the best algae species for biodiesel production.
The researchers say that algae is a more beneficial feedstock for biodiesel production than corn or soyabeans because it can use numerous water sources, from wastewater... [Read More]
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Apr 10, 2012
Ventura, which is a subsidy of biodiesel company Biodico, has been given a $2 million (€1.5 million) grant from the California Energy Commission and will use the funds to produce renewable energy and biodiesel at Biodico’s 10 million gallon a year facility which is being built in Port Hueneme, California.
At the facility, process heat and power will be generated... [Read More]
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Apr 11, 2012
BioPower Operations, a company that grows, produces and sells biomass and its byproducts, has become a public company, listing its shares on the stock market.
The company currently has plans to produce and sell biomass oils in the short term and in the long term receive licenses to grow trees and bamboo that can also be converted into oils, biofuels, animal feed or electricity.
Robert... [Read More]
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Apr 11, 2012
Eco-Energy, an alternative energy company, says it is to build an ethanol unit train and storage facility which will distribute biofuels to the Atlanta, Georgia area in the US.
The train terminal will be able to distribute more than 400,000 barrels of ethanol a month, using its automated loading system.
The rail system will be able to receive up to 96 rail car unit trains... [Read More]
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Apr 12, 2012
The Iowa Department of Revenue says that the biodiesel sold in 2011 was nearly twice as much that was sold in 2012.
During last year, the total amount of pure biodiesel that was sold in the state amounted to 13.9 million gallons, whereas the year before it only reached 7.4 million gallons.
In the region, where there are 13 biodiesel plants which produced 175 million gallons... [Read More]
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Apr 12, 2012
Ice cream company Mackie’s of Scotland is building a plant that will convert its slurry into biofuel, which will be used to power the company’s Aberdeenshire facility.
Once the anaerobic digester is installed, the fairy farm in Westertown, Rothienorman, will run completely on renewable energy.
Scientists from the Edinburgh Napier University’s Biofuel... [Read More]
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Apr 12, 2012
Wilmar Indonesia, the biggest palm oil producer in the country, plans to produce palm oil-derived aviation biofuel in a plant in Gresik, East Java, thanks to an investment of around $80 million (€61 million).
Working with Elevance Renewable Sciences through its subsidiary PT Wilmar Nabati Indonesia, it will be the first biofuel plant for aviation fuel in Indonesia.
The... [Read More]
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Apr 13, 2012
Canadian air carrier Porter Airlines is due to fly a commercial, biofuel-powered aircraft later this month, making it the nation's first carrier to do this.
The flight comes after Porter's biofuel test flight, which took place in February earlier this year.
Porter will operate one of its Bombardier Q400 turboprop airliners on a 50/50 blend of biojet and conventional fossil... [Read More]
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Apr 16, 2012
Regus Advisors has invested in Algae International so that it can build its first $2 million algae to biofuel development in California.
Regus, a private global investment banking firm, says the plant will be a large scale project will use CO₂, fuel cells, nitrates, phosphates, sunlight and algae to produce the biofuels.
Regus’ president, Mervyn Price, explains:... [Read More]
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Apr 16, 2012
Following the success of the Qantas biofuel powered flight, Algae.Tec says that in the future most of the Australian biofuels could be derived from algae that is grown locally.
The biofuel flight, which saw the plane fly between Sydney and Adelaide, was powered on cooking oil-derived biodiesel which was supplied by SkyNRG. However, Algae.Tec says it would be beneficially... [Read More]
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