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Jan 15, 2013
Vilsack visits opening of new plant-to-sugar facility
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Jan 16, 2013
Brazilian biofuels producer Vinema Biorefinarias do Sul (VBS) is planning to build the country’s first ethanol fuel mills that use grain as raw material.
VBS wants to construct six mills at a total of BRL720 million (€265 million) and expects to secure BRL40 million of equity commitments for the first plant due to be based in Cristal.
It is believed VBS expect... [Read More]
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Jan 17, 2013
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded a multi-million grant to a team of researchers looking at the potential of camelina as a biofuel feedstock.
The team, led by Kansas State University professor of grain science and industry Xiuzhi Sun, has received just over $5 million (€3.7 million) and also comprises of researchers from Montana State University,... [Read More]
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Dec 7, 2012
Renewable energy and agriculture technology provider ICM has completed a test of its 1.5 generation integrated fibre to cellulosic ethanol technology.
ICM engineered a 1,000 hour test run at its pilot plant in Missouri, US and believes it can now save on both operating costs and expenditure over traditional cellulosic ethanol production. Feedstocks used in the test included... [Read More]
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Dec 10, 2012
The biofuels division of BP is to invest $350 million (€271.1 million) to double its ethanol processing capacity in Brazil.
The facility is operated by Tropical Energia, which BP Biofuels acquired majority ownership of in 2011, will see its capacity go from 2.5 million to 5 million tonnes of sugarcane a year.
A new mill is also to be constructed and expected to provide... [Read More]
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Dec 10, 2012
A new biodiesel processing facility, supported by fast food brand McDonald’s Australia, was officially launched in December.
The facility, owned by Neutral Fuels (NF), was opened by small business minister Louise Asher in Victoria and is believed to be creating 10 new jobs. NF worked with the Department of business and Innovation to bring the project to life.
As... [Read More]
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Dec 11, 2012
The Fairmont ethanol plant has now changed ownership from Advanced Bioenergy to Flint Hills Resources as previously reported by Biofuels International.
The acquisition was announced on 7 December but the finances have not yet been revealed. It is believed that Flint Hill will be looking to appoint four new members of staff at the plant based in Nebraska.
The plant has... [Read More]
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Dec 12, 2012
It has been reported by trading risk management group CME that corn ethanol production in the US rose 4% during the last week of November.
That 4% is a five month high and is represented by 835,000 barrels per day. The group also states that inventories have increased by 8.3% over the past three weeks to 19.3 million barrels. This comes after the country suffered the lowest... [Read More]
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Dec 12, 2012
Japanese energy company Idemitsu Kosan has signed a new Memorandum of Understanding to promote biofuel production in southeast Asia.
The agreement was with the Cambodian government and it will aim to produce bioethanol from cassava in the country for sale throughout the region.
It is believed an Idemitsu Kosan office will open in Phnom Penh with ambitions of producing... [Read More]
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Dec 13, 2012
A venture deal has been completed between the Mars Cleantech Fund and Woodland Biofuels as the producer closes in on being North America’s lowest-cost ethanol provider.
Woodland Biofuels makes cellulosic ethanol from woodchips and other agricultural biomass into fuel at its newly opened demonstration plant in Ontario.
‘This fund seeks technologies with the... [Read More]
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Dec 14, 2012
Following a fire that occurred almost a year ago to the day, Australia-based biodiesel producer Australian Renewable Fuels (ARF) has recommissioned its Largs North processing and storage facility.
It has cost AU$6.5 million (€5.2 million) to rebuild, but now also includes a fuel-blending facility on-site. The first truck shipped fuel out at the start of December,... [Read More]
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Dec 17, 2012
A new $7 million (€5.3 million), five year biofuels collaboration has been signed this month.
International chemical company Johnson Matthey will work with the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) at producing economical drop-in gasoline, diesel and jet fuel from non-food based biomass.
‘It’s a way of leveraging the... [Read More]
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Dec 17, 2012
Renewable oil and bioproducts company Solazyme has completed multiple initial fermentations at Archer Daniels Midland’s (ADM) Iowa, US-based facility.
Solazyme claims to have achieved commercial-scale production metrics, linear scalability of its process from laboratory scale and demonstrated the ability to run large scales without contamination.
The fermentations... [Read More]
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Dec 18, 2012
Renewable energy watchdog for Europe EurObserv’er has calculated the final gross energy consumption for the 27 European member states.
There has been an estimated rise of nearly 1% over 2011, which finished on 13.4%, compared to 2010 on 12.5%.
The report believes the increase in renewable energy share across the 27 states can be explained by the combination of a... [Read More]
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Dec 18, 2012
A joint research project between Finland-based Turku University and Manchester University in the UK believe it has found a way to unlock clean fuel from some obscure feedstocks.
A fatty acid compound found in ice cream, which also resides in other items like shampoo and soap, could be a long-term solution to replace fossil fuels through hydrocarbon chemical manipulation.
‘The... [Read More]
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