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Mar 7, 2012
Cobalt demonstrates biomass pretreatment process
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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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Feb 13, 2012
The Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels (RSB) has announced the first completed commercial certification of the Manildra Group, Australia.
Through its subsidiary Shoalhaven Starches Pty Ltd, the Manildra Group produces bioethanol from starchy wastewater generated by their wheat-processing facility.
The certification, conducted by NCS International, serves to prove sustainable... [Read More]
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Feb 13, 2012
Construction of the US's first large-scale, wood-to-ethanol plant is set to begin this year in Upper Peninsula, Michigan.
The $232-million (€175.05 million) biorefinery is to be built on 40 acres in Kinross Charter Township, with completion expected in late 2013.
A company called Mascoma developed the wood-to-ethanol process which combines wood chips with microorganisms,... [Read More]
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Feb 13, 2012
Analysis company Bloomberg New Energy Finance have published forecasts suggesting that, if production efficiency continues to improve, the cost of some biofuels could be similar to that of conventional jet fuel by 2018.
However, the study also showed that airlines might end up using only a modest proportion of biofuels (2% or less) in their fuel mix in the next few years.
‘The... [Read More]
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Feb 14, 2012
Ethanol stocks have reached an all-time weekly high according to the Energy Information Association, which coupled with rising corn costs and decreasing fuel demand, could cause come Midwest biorefineries to cut back on production.
Ethanol futures on the Chicago Board of Trade have fallen by a margin of nearly $0.50 (€0.38) over the past five months to $2.21 (1.67)... [Read More]
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Feb 14, 2012
Marine fuel supplier Chemoil has made $67.7 million (€51.3 million) profit before tax, which is a more than $79 million rise on last year’s figures.
The company also reported a record volume of 22.5 million tonnes for 2011 and entered into the aviation fuel business by supplying the industry with 65 billion gallons last year, forming the Chemoil Aviation division.
Its... [Read More]
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Feb 14, 2012
Amyris CEO John Melo has admitted that the company, which produces chemicals and fuels from sugar cane, has had trouble maintaining reliable production of its operations in Brazil.
‘We showed conclusively that our technology does work at scale, but also learned that it takes time to translate from peak yield levels in the lab to maintaining those yields over... [Read More]
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