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Apr 18, 2013
Europe shouldn’t halt transport decarbonisation says ePure
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Mar 22, 2013
US-based ethanol producer Valero Energy has restarted its facility in Ohio and aims to resume operations at another in Indiana ‘in the coming weeks’.
After the US drought of 2012, that placed extreme pressure on corn levels and prices for both the biofuels and food industries, Valero idled three plants last June but now it is coming back positively.
‘Margins... [Read More]
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Mar 22, 2013
Biofuels throughput at the Port of Rotterdam rose by 24% in 2012 when compared to the year before.
The final total last year hit 5.9 million and the port attributes that rise mainly to biodiesel as its import and export volumes both increased by 1.5 million tonnes.
To contrast that figure, the throughput of ethanol dropped by 17% to 1.4 million tonnes and ETBE fell 8%... [Read More]
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Mar 22, 2013
Microbial developers for the biofuels and green chemicals industries Biotork and the Agricultural Research Service‘s Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Centre (ARS-PBARC) will extend a collaboration to convert agricultural by-products into biofuels and other products.
The pair first began work together in 2011 and began focusing on developing strains of heterotrophic... [Read More]
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Mar 22, 2013
Algae-based green crude oil producer Sapphire Energy has entered into a commercial agreement with Tesoro Refining and Marketing, a subsidiary of Tesoro.
Tesoro will purchase crude oil from Sapphire’s green crude farm in New Mexico, which recently reached continuous cultivation and crude oil production.
“In less than one year, we have started up commercial demonstration... [Read More]
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Mar 22, 2013
A commercial-scale lignin separation plant has been installed by Domtar at its mill in North Carolina, US.
The company claims this is the first facility of its type in the country in over 25 years. The production of lignin began in February, with a targeted rate of 75 tonnes a day, for industrial applications such as a bio-based alternative to the use of petroleum... [Read More]
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Mar 25, 2013
A coalition of farmers in California, US have won support to construct a new ethanol demonstration plant using sugar beets as feedstock.
A dozen farmers, with support from university experts and a grant of $5 million (€3.8 million) from the California Energy Commission, will build the demo facility in Fresno County with an aim of then building the US’ first... [Read More]
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Mar 26, 2013
An assistant professor at the Auburn University School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences has launched a research project into improving butanol production from agricultural and woody biomass.
Maobing Tu believes his study will be a significant stride towards butanol production becoming economically viable across the board, while also providing new insights into the design... [Read More]
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Mar 27, 2013
UK investment company Future Capital Partners (FCP) has agreed to purchase US-based Appomattox Bioenergy.
It is believed FCP will sell the assets to investment vehicle Future Fuels Partnership, which is developing a refinery in Grimsby, and the majority of the plant and machinery may be shipped from Virginia to help build it.
The purchase of the Appomattox is reported... [Read More]
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Mar 27, 2013
Algae biofuels company Algae Tec has signed a memorandum of understanding with engineering and construction management business WorleyParsons.
The agreement outlines framework by which WorleyParsons can support Algae Tec further develop projects in places like Brazil, Australia, the EU and the US.
‘WorleyParsons will bring years of experience in supporting project... [Read More]
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Mar 28, 2013
A new committee focusing on the future of biofuels in Canada has been formed by the Canadian Renewable Fuels Association (CRFA).
CFRA revealed the committee and its members will represent those involved in advanced biofuels, particularly focusing on technology and new projects.
‘Canada is building on the success of its established biofuels industry to create a new... [Read More]
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Mar 28, 2013
It has been reported that an ethanol company located in south Minnesota, US may have to sell its plant.
Denver-based Biofuel Energy was a victim of the long drought that affected US corn availability and prices last summer and it shut down the plant, which can produce up to 115 millions gallons a year, in September as it became ‘unprofitable’.
‘When those... [Read More]
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Apr 2, 2013
SCS Global Services has announced the expansion of its biofuel certification services in south east Asia.
The third-party environmental certification body will now conduct audits under the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) programme, which will allow biofuel producers in south east Asia to meet the requirements for export into the European Union... [Read More]
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Apr 2, 2013
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) believes its country’s farmers will grow the most corn since 1936 as growers look to take advantage of high prices driven by last year’s drought.
A forecast of 97.3 million acres of corn is set to be sown in 2013 to help boost dwindling supplies, while soyabean plantings have been placed at 77.1 million acres. Wheat crops... [Read More]
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Apr 3, 2013
UK-based bioethanol producer Ensus has ‘temporarily’ taken its 450 million gallon capacity facility offline for the second time since it started operations in 2010.
In a statement the company says a ‘poor wheat harvest in the UK last year has had an adverse impact on the quality and price of the crop as a feedstock’ that is used within the plant.
‘Alongside... [Read More]
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@VTTI and @Connex partners in the development of Greenstock Pretreatment Facility (GPF) at VTTI’s terminal in Amsterdam (ETA), have announced that the project has entered the Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) Phase.
https://biofuels-news.com/news/vtti-and-connex-partner-in-renewable-feedstock-development/
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The #German #cabinet has officially approved #legislation to implement the European Union’s Renewable Energy Directive (RED III) into national law as of December 10.
https://biofuels-news.com/news/german-cabinet-approves-legislation-to-implement-eu-renewable-energy-directive/
#biofuels #policy #Germany #policy #decision #landmark
