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Evogene, a developer of improved plant traits for the industries including biofuels, has launched a model plant validation system for evaluation of candidate genes for monocot crops.
Monocot plants have one single embryonic seed leaf and include three of the most economically important food crops in corn, rice and wheat.
It claims this system, which uses Brachypodium as the monocot model plant,…
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New Zealand-based petrol station brand Z Energy wants to bring a biofuel project in Auckland back online.
CEO Mike Bennetts says the company wants to reduce its carbon footprint through creating 20 million litres of biofuel from tallow feedstock, which could then go toward making 400,000 litres of E5 diesel.
An earlier attempt at this got to pilot level but a loss of financing meant it…
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Finland-based energy company St1 is planning to construct a new bioethanol facility in Kajaani.
Company executives aim to make an investment decision bout the project this year, which would enable production to begin in 2015. The plant would use sawdust from the local sawmill industry as feedstock.
St1 is keen on second generation biofuels and is aiming to hit an ethanol production target of 300…
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Front Range Energy, an ethanol producer in Colorado, US is to move away from using corn feedstock to woody biomass.
FRE says it has tested a new process to make ethanol from wood waste and its facility could start commercial production next year.
‘The idea to use biomass to convert to ethanol is not a new idea,’ says Dan Sanders Jr, FRE VP. ‘What's new is the technology to bring…
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State-owned plantation company PT Perkebunan Nusantara (PTPN) is set to widen its product portfolio by expanding into biofuel production during 2013.
It has been reported that its sugar and tobacco lines cannot be fully relied on to support the Indonesia-based company, which is seeing increased manufacturing costs, so biofuels and electricity production are set to be introduced.
‘Sugar…
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After finding a potential feedstock in Yellowstone National Park a new biofuels start-up is gathering pace in Montana, US.
New company Sustainable Bioproducts, funded by a Small Business Innovation and Research grant from the National Science Foundation, will partner with Montana State University to turn a fungus discovered at Yellowstone into sustainable energy.
The fungus, named MK7, thrives in…
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A fire that broke out in a fuel tank farm in North Carolina, US on 16 February is thought to have started following a lightning strike.
The blaze set fire to Eco Energy's 40,000 gallon ethanol storage tank located near Paw Creek.
The incident occurred around 4pm and required more than 70 fire fighters to bring it under control using water and foam.
Nobody was injured.
The National Weather Service…
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Terminal network owner Global Partners has signed an agreement to acquire a Portland, Oregon-based crude oil and ethanol facility from Cascade Kelly Holdings for approximately $95 million (€70 million).
Assets included in the transaction are 200,000 barrels of storage capacity, a rail transloading facility served by the BNSF Railway, a deepwater marine terminal and a 1,200ft. dock, in…
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The US Department of Energy (DoE) has awarded a grant for a multidisciplinary Cal Poly research team to develop algae biofuels processes.
The $1.3 million (€961,400) will help the team, dubbed the Algae Technology Group, look at developing processes that turn waste resources and nutrients recycled from algae-derived biomass into sustainable biofuels.
The DoE hope a successful project will…
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US-based Guardian Energy Heron Lake (GEHL) has signed an agreement to acquire the ethanol production assets from Heron Lake BioEnergy.
The transaction, which also includes a 73% ownership interest in pipeline subsidiary Agrinatural Gas, is expected to close by the start of March, pending regulatory and member approval.
The Heron Lake natural gas-fired ethanol plant produces almost 60 million…
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India-based process engineering and solutions company Praj Industries has won a contract to provide an ethanol plant in Columbia.
The order comes from food and sugar processing business Riopaila Castilla (RC) and is worth a total of $20 million (€14.7 million), which includes the plant which will produce 400,000 litres of ethanol a day at RC’s sugar plant in La Pailia.
The ethanol…
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Two US east coast-based biodiesel development companies have signed an agreement to provide the national capital region (NCR) with clean burning biodiesel.
Tri-State Biodiesel subsidiary Beltway Biodiesel and DC Biofuels (DCB) will launch a combined waste vegetable oil collection from restaurants and large food service institutes. The NCR is primarily made up of Washington, Arlington and…
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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed its 2013 percentage standards for four fuel categories that are part of the agency’s Renewable Fuel Standard program (RFS2).
The proposed 2013 overall volumes and standards are: Biomass-based diesel (1.28 billion gallons; 1.12%)Advanced biofuels (2.75 billion gallons; 1.60%)Cellulosic biofuels (14 million gallons; 0.008%)Total…
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Spanish oil storage and transportation company CLH Group supplied over 2.4 million m3 of biofuels throughout 2012, a 27% increase on what it delivered in 2011.
In a statement the company said 2.1 million m3 of this was biodiesel and the remaining 0.3 million m3 was bioethanol. Of the 2.1 million m3 of biodiesel, 700,000m3 was accounted for by second generation hydrobiodiesel (HVO) which,…
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US-based renewable fuels and chemicals company Amyris has shipped its first load of biofene from its new plant in Brazil.
The facility represents Amyris’ first purpose-built industrial fermentation plant which produces farnesene from sugarcane to create the biofene.
‘This initial shipment marks the successful completion of our start-up activities. We have operated multiple tanks…
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