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Swedish Taurus Energy has partnered with France-based CIMV, and sent a proposal to the EU Commission detailing the construction of a demonstration plant for the production of ethanol from biomass.
The plan is for the demonstration plant will be built in France. Taurus Energy will be responsible for the yeast-based fermentation step in the process and the demonstration plant will be built in…
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The Lufthansa Group is operating its LH 190 flight from Frankfurt to Berlin Tegel using a 10% blend of the new biofuel component farnesane.
This is the first scheduled flight in Europe to run on this sugar-based bio-kerosene fuel mix.
A rig test at Lufthansa Technik's facility in Hamburg last year, as part of the EU's 'Blending Study' project preceded Lufthansa's flight.
Lufthansa has also…
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Renewable energy technology provider INEOS Bio is restarting its new cellulosic ethanol plant in Florida after contamination forced it to decrease production considerably.
The company has upgraded the facility's technology and is also finishing the installation of equipment to remove impurities from one of the plant's process streams. As a result, this contamination has disrupted production.
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DuPont Industrial Biosciences (DuPont) has selected Murex to market cellulosic ethanol produced from its 30 million gallon plant in Nevada, Iowa.
Once completed, the facility will be the largest cellulosic ethanol plant in the world.
The Nevada biorefinery will use all parts of the corn stover – the stalks, leaves and cobs.
'We are excited to work with an industry leader such as DuPont to…
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Germany's biofuel consumption was 2.9 million tonnes in the year to October, a drop of 8.9% compared with the first 10 months in 2012, reports the country's economics agency BAFA.
Despite a 0.5% increase in total road fuel consumption, bringing the total to 43.75 million tonnes and blending rates dropping for all biofuel types, the overall consumption still fell.
There was however a 9.5% increase…
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A new ethanol plant may be built in Onida, Iowa, US.
Plans started earlier this year for a facility that is capable of producing 70 million gallons per year of ethanol and 200 tonnes of distiller’s grain.
‘What ethanol has done for agriculture is help balance supply and demand,’ says Walt Wendland, who, along with Chris Schwarck, has been involved in the start-up of several…
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The European renewable ethanol association, ePURE, has appointed Robert Wright as its new secretary general. Wright will start this position immediately.
Wright has over 20 years' experience working in European Union public policy and public affairs and has previously worked for the EU Commission and in the energy and high technology sectors.
'I am delighted to be joining ePURE and to take up the…
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Swiss Jatropower, a developer of Jatropha curcas seeds and associated agronomic technologies, has acquired a large majority of Quinvita’s assets.
Quinvita grew these activities over a period of seven years through their breeding programme and agronomic evaluations and experiments in several Asian, African and Latin American countries and scientific collaboration with numerous research…
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Sales of commercial and passenger vehicles, particularly flex-fuel vehicles that allow end users to choose customised biofuel-fossil fuel blends have increased.
New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, Strategic Analysis of the Global Automotive Biofuels Market, has found that the market generated revenues of $94.61 billion (€73.63 billion) in 2013 and estimates this will reach $149.25…
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Secure energy margins have led to Red River Energy's South Dakota plant coming back online.
The 25 million gallon facility has been idle since early 2013.
'The margins are good in ethanol, corn is abundant at this point with a record crop coming in. We're optimistic about our future here. We have to get up and operating at full capacity, but we see good margins being a success for the investors…
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As demand coming from the US slows, biofuels growth in the 2013-18 period will be modest compared to the 2008-13 period, says the Freedonia Group report.
Asia, the Africa/Mideast region and Central and South America will drive global biofuels demand to 115 million tonnes in 2018, up 18.7 million tonnes from 2013 figures, reports the Freedonia Group's new study, 'World Biofuels'.
The US –…
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Green Fuel is setting up an ethanol project in Zambia, which will see the company build a $500-million facility.
The biodiesel processor supplier entered into a partnership with the Development Trust of Zimbabwe (DTZ) resulting in the creation of a company called Zimbabwe Bio-Energy in 2008.
It is this company that will implement the ethanol project.
The move comes after the company was left…
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Refineries in the Iowa, US, will begin full operations using feedstocks other than corn kernels.
Iowa has two major cellulosic plants under construction that will use corn plant leaves, stalks and cobs to produce ethanol.
Project Liberty, a plant in Emmetsburg built by Sioux Falls, South Dakota-based ethanol-maker POET and biotechnology company Royal DSM. The $250 million plant will produce 25…
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Lurgi, a member of the Air Liquide group of companies, has completed construction and start-up of an ethanol facility for Calgren Renewable Fuels.
The Calgren plant is currently the only ethanol plant operating in the US state of California.
Calgren and Lurgi worked together to design a plant that optimises the plant's energy efficiency, while producing value added co-products.
The facility will…
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