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Feb 29, 2012
Mutated plants may be better for biofuels
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Mar 1, 2012
The Andersons has signed an agreement to acquire an ethanol production facility in Denison, Iowa from its owners, the Amaizing Energy Denison and Amaizing Energy Holding Company. The transaction, which remains subject to several contingencies, is anticipated to close in the second quarter.
If acquired, The Andersons Denison Ethanol, a wholly owned subsidiary of The... [Read More]
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Mar 1, 2012
Recent analysis of the biofuels industry by ecoprog GmbH has suggested a probable 40 new production plants will be constructed in Europe in the next 5 years, regardless of the existing import pressure and national overcapacities.
In early 2012, approximately 380 biofuel plants with a production capacity of 1,050 petajoules were operational in the European Economic... [Read More]
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Mar 2, 2012
The Algal Biomass Organization (ABO) has conducted a new survey of more than 380 US algae industry contacts, which shows algae companies to be increasing production in 2012. The research also suggests that algae biofuels are expected to be price-competitive with petroleum fuels by 2020, and also that stable and effective Federal policy would accelerate production and... [Read More]
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Mar 5, 2012
Ratchaburi Electricity Generating Holding (RATCH) has announced it will take a 40% stake in Songkhla Biofuel. Precise Power Producer already holds a 40% shareholding in the company, and Assiddeek Savings Cooperative a 20% shareholding.
Songkhla Biofuel is to guarantee the supply of 300-370 tonnes of biomass residues per day to the Songkhla Biomass Power Station in... [Read More]
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Mar 6, 2012
Energy investment group Energae has signed a purchase agreement, which would see them buy Northeast Energy's closed facility in Grafton, US. The company reportedly intends to start sourcing potential investors within the next few weeks, and any money raised will be put towards facility refurbishment.
The former Alchem Ethanol plant, which closed in 2007, is expected... [Read More]
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Mar 7, 2012
Developer of next generation n-butanol, Cobalt Technologies, has successfully demonstrated its biomass pretreatment process.
The dilute acid hydrolysis pretreatment process, which is the initial step for converting sugars into n-butanol, was tested in cooperation with Andritz, supplier of technologies, equipment and plants for pulp and paper industries. The process, which... [Read More]
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Mar 8, 2012
Cobalt Technologies has successfully demonstrated of one of its advanced biocatalysts in partnership with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), which forms part of the US Department of Energy. Cobalt completed multiple fermentation campaigns in a 9,000 litre fermenter, exceeding the target yield and other performance metrics for a commercial scale facility.... [Read More]
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Mar 9, 2012
LAN Airlines and Air BP Copec have joined together to conduct a commercial flight demonstration between the Chilean cities of Santiago and Concepcion, using biofuels.
An Airbus from the A320 family with CFM56-5B motors was powered with fuel from refined vegetable oil and illustrates a positive step towards sustainable commercial use of biofuels in South America.
Second... [Read More]
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Mar 9, 2012
Brazilian ethanol producer, Usina de Acucar Santa Terezinha, is to invest 500 million reais (€215.56 million) in sugar-cane plantations and a mill.
The first phase of a cane project situated in the state of Mato Grosso is expected to be completed by 2015. The company will also be investing in its 8 existing mills, developing plantations for each.
This project,... [Read More]
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Feb 8, 2012
Biobased chemical company Codexis has released its results for last year and says it made more than $123 million (€93 million) in 2011, a rise of 16% from the $107 million it generated the year before.
For the fourth quarter of last year it also made 12% more than the same time the previous year, reporting a revenue of $33.5 million.
For this year, Codexis expects... [Read More]
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Feb 9, 2012
A new study has shown that biofuels are expected to cost EU consumers about €126 billion at the pump between now and 2020.
The report, which was commissioned by NGOs Friends of the Earth and ActionAid, has been criticised by the ethanol association ePURE as being flawed as the body says it is full of factual errors.
According to ePure, analysts F.O. Licht’s... [Read More]
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Feb 9, 2012
An ethanol facility that will produce 10,000 tonnes a year is to be built through a joint venture between GlycosBio Asia and Malaysian Bio-Xchell in Johor Bahru, Indonesia.
Glycos Biotechnologies, a biochemical company, will work with biotechnology developer Bio-XCell to fund the plant that will produce ethanol from crude glycerine.
The project is due to be completed by... [Read More]
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Feb 10, 2012
Chroen Industries has been sold to Linde Engineering Dresden after it went into adminstration and Linde will continue to develop Choren’s Carbo-V technology for synthetic gas.
This gas can be used to produce biofuels and Linde already works in this sector, planning, delivering and constructing chemical, gas, biotechnology and pharmaceutical plants.
The insolvency... [Read More]
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Feb 10, 2012
Petrobras says its operating cash flow last year was 5% more than it was in 2010, at more than R$62 billion (€27 billion).
However, its net income was 5% less than 2010 at R$33 billion in 2011.
In Brazil, its reserves hit more than 15 billion barrels of oil equivalent (boe) and its reserve ratio now stands at more than 19 years.
For its output, oil and natural gas... [Read More]
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