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May 6, 2011
Dyadic issued with 10th US patent
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May 6, 2011
Following a dip in 2009, throughput in Zeeland ports seems to have picked up again.
Q1 2011 saw throughput increase by more than 7% compared to the same period in 2010.
In particular, general cargo throughput has increased by 23% and dry bulk by 8%.
In addition to its Q1 2011 results, Zeeland Seaports has also released its final results for 2010.
Throughput for last year... [Read More]
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May 6, 2011
Eucalyptus has been found to be a promising option as a biomass feedstock for the production of liquid fuel, as researchers from the US Department of Energy's (DoE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have identified a tree that releases more than twice the usual amount of sugar.
The trees being studied by NREL are lignin-modified eucalyptus lines that have been... [Read More]
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May 9, 2011
In Canada, renewable energy producer Rentech is looking to develop a biomass plant in White River, Ontario that will produce jet fuel and create 400 fulltime jobs.
'This will be the largest renewable clean jet fuel programme in the world,' says the CEO of RenTech Hunt Ramsbottom. 'This will be the first of its kind where the province, the federal government, local communities... [Read More]
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May 9, 2011
Papua New Guinea-headquartered New Britain Palm Oil (NBPOL), a large-scale integrated industrial producer of sustainable palm oil in Australasia, and agribusiness group Wilmar International have agreed to set up an integrated supply chain and joint marketing agreement to supply Europe with fully traceable and segregated sustainable palm oil from NBPOL's Roundtable on Sustainable... [Read More]
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May 9, 2011
Privately owned company Greenergy is to start reducing the levels of waste sent to landfill and has partnered with waste food recycling company Brocklesby to produce biodiesel from food leftovers.
In a bid to reduce the environmental impact of the fuel that the company produces, while also creating a new alternative source of fuel, the joint venture will covert edible... [Read More]
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May 10, 2011
The 5 May 2011 saw the US Department of Energy (DoE) and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) expose a new $47 million (€32.7 million) grant programme.
The new R&D grants, which are part of the Obama Administration's aim to address the rising costs of fuel, will support the generation of energy from biomass.
The funding will help finance a total of eight projects... [Read More]
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May 10, 2011
Canada-based Core BioFuel, a biofuels firm dedicated to the commercialisation of a biomass-to-fuel production process, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with an un-named energy project developer.
The MoU will see the development of four Core-licensed biorefineries in the Western Hemisphere, which will utilise Core's patent-pending wood-to-fuel technology for... [Read More]
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Apr 5, 2011
England has the potential to generate 4% of its electricity needs from short rotation coppice energy crops grown on unused land, according to a study supported by the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC).
These findings highlight that such crops, including poplar and willow, could help the UK meet its 2020 renewable energy target of 15% of all energy and 30% electricity to... [Read More]
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Apr 5, 2011
Since July 2007, most diesel sold in the Oregon, US-based city of Portland has been blended with 5% biodiesel (B5), and now the rest of the state is catching on.
Oregon has now become the second US state to enforce the B5 mandate, after Minnesota, which first implemented a B2 biodiesel requirement, before this was ramped up to B5. Now Minnesota is reported to be further... [Read More]
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Apr 6, 2011
Tharaldson Ethanol's plant in Casselton, North Dakota, has become the seventh-largest ethanol production facility in the US.
The plant began producing ethanol in 2009 and has reached a production capacity of 150 million gallons a year of ethanol to date.
When operations commenced it could handle around 36 million bushels of locally grown corn a year. Two years later and... [Read More]
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Apr 6, 2011
In Fort Dodge, Iowa, US, producer and marketer of food, agricultural, financial and industrial products and services Cargill has acquired a corn wet mill ethanol plant from Tate & Lyle.
The facility's current annual production capacity stands at 115 million gallons of ethanol from 150,000 bushels of corn a day.
Speaking about the purchase, Alan Willits, Cargill Corn... [Read More]
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Apr 6, 2011
In Dai Tan Commune in Dai Loc District, Vietnam's largest ethanol plant opened on 2 April 2011.
Dong Xanh owns and operates the plant, which produces 125 million litres of ethanol annually from locally grown cassava.
The plant cost in excess of VND600 billion (€20 million) to construct.
In addition to providing work for around 20,000 cassava farmers, the new development... [Read More]
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Apr 7, 2011
In the US, Decatur, Illinois-based biofuels producer Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) is to buy a soyabean crushing and biodiesel production plant, located in Deerfield, Missouri.
ADM is acquiring the facility from Prairie Pride, in addition to collaborating with the biodiesel and soya mill producer for the biodiesel side of the business.
'The acquisition of Prairie Pride's... [Read More]
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Apr 7, 2011
South Africa's AGZAM Project Developers has made one of the largest investments into a sector outside of the mining industry, in Zambia.
The company is planning to build a $251 million (€175.65 million) sugar and ethanol facility after it signed a deal with the nation at the end of March 2011.
Work on the biofuel plant is slated to begin in May this year before operations... [Read More]
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