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Peru-based energy company Maple Energy has completed its first ethanol transaction with global investment and trading business Mitsui Group.
Maple’s first export sale of fuel-grade ethanol was for approximately 1.56 million gallons, which Mitsui will then pass on to one of its European customers.
‘We are delighted with our first export sale of ethanol to the international…
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Renewable products company Amyris, in collaboration with its partners as part of the National Advanced Biofuels Consortium (NABC), has produced renewable farnesene (biofene) via fermenting lingo-cellulosic sugars.
Amyris is leading the NABC’s Fermentation of Ligno-cellulosic Sugars (FLS) strategy and has aimed to merge its isoprenoid-yeast platform with the ability to use cellulosic sugars…
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The Renewable Energy Group (REG) has posted several positive figures following its financial results for second quarter 2012.
REG posted $271.9 million (€220.4 million) revenue for the second quarter, an increase of 39% compared to revenues of $196.3 million for the same period in 2011. Second quarter 2012 adjusted EBITDA was $26.5 million, an increase of 3% compared to the same period in…
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Global biotech company Novozymes claims to have developed a microorganism that aids the production of bio-based malic acid from renewable raw materials instead of oil.
Malic acid is used as a flavour enhancer in the food industry and can also be converted into other chemical derivatives used for a variety of plastic, polymer and resin products.
‘This is our first biochemical building block…
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The Council of Energy Resource Tribes (CERT) and BioJet International have formed a strategic alliance to further the development of biojet fuel.
BioJet International is a supply chain integrator in renewable (bio)jet fuel and related co-products which include green diesel for the aviation and related commercial transportation sectors.
In 2011 BioJet received a $1.2 billion (€970 million)…
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A research team at the University of Missouri has been awarded a multi-million grant to study ways of obtaining alternative biofuels without further impacting food supply.
The $5.4 million (€4.4 million) grant was awarded by the US Department of Energy and will be used to further study non-food biofuel crops, like switchgrass.
“In the 10 states along the Missouri and Mississippi…
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Sinopec Zhenhai Refining & Chemical Co., a unit of petroleum and petrochemical enterprise group China Petrochemical Corp. (Sinopec Group), is looking to convert waste cooking oil into jet fuel, The Economic Observer reports.
The company has been investigating the potential of green jet fuel since 2009 and recently it successfully produced renewable aviation kerosene from used cooking oil…
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Exploring sustainable aviation biofuels will be the first project by a newly opened airline technology centre in China.
The Boeing-COMAC Aviation Energy Conservation and Emissions Reductions Technology Centre is a collaborative effort to support commercial freight and passenger aviation growth by passenger aircraft manufacturers Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China and multinational aerospace…
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A joint-venture project called Ineos New Planet BioEnergy (INPB) has been granted parts 79 and 80 registration from the US Environmental Protection Agency for the production and sale of advanced bioethanol from non-food waste materials.
Headed by waste to biofuel company Ineos Bio, the notice of registration came after successful completion of the construction of the Indian River Bioenergy…
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Bioethanol yeast developing company Lesaffre, and its business unit Fermentis, has acquired xylose isomerase technology from yeast technology providers Butalco.
‘This acquisition, combined with our own intellectual property, allows us to finalise the construction of an industrial yeast strain suitable for second generation ethanol,’ says Fermentis general manager Didier…
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The US Appeals Court for the District of Columbia Circuit has sided with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and its partial waiver approval for E15 ethanol fuel for model year 2001 and newer light duty vehicles and all flex-fuel vehicles.
Those vehicles represent nearly two-thirds of all vehicles on the road and almost 75% of vehicle miles driven.
Since the initial waiver filing in March…
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Philippines-based bioenergy company Secura International Corporation (SIC) has signed a joint venture agreement with two cooperatives for the future production of biodiesel.
SIC will be working with the Higaonon Indi Tribes Cooperative and the Tumanod Indi Napier Marketing Cooperative to create biodiesel from napier grass and other feedstocks.
Each company has to gather landowners with a minimum…
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A new report conducted energy research publisher SBI claims algae biofuels technologies should grow by double digits in the short-term.
The report states algae biofuels will post a compound annual growth rate of 43.1% and lead the market to $1.6 billion (€1.29 billion).
Investment by strategic partnerships and internal company revenue growth, which are slowly replacing government grants, is…
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A recent survey of German motorists by ethanol association BDBE shows that most are still hesitate when it comes to using gasoline-ethanol blend E10.
Seven out of 10 motorists interviewed still fear E10 will damage their engines and only 33% have ever filled their cars with it compared with using the older Super E5 fuel option.
‘If at least 90% of German gasoline engines are suitable for…
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A new biobutanol plant is being devised through a joint venture between chemical company Rhodia and next generation bio-based chemicals developer Cobalt Technologies.
The demonstration facility will be based in Brazil and is set to utilise Cobalt’s technology to convert bagasse and other local non-food feedstock in biobutnaol in Latin America.
‘This agreement puts us on a clear path…
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Hong Kong-based ASB Biodiesel, which is building a 100,000 tonne per year plant to produce biodiesel through processing city waste materials, claims it will aim to roll out the business to the mainland if the model proves successful.
The new factory, based at the Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate, is aiming to be completed by the end of 2012 and start commercial production in the second quarter of…
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Algae company Algae.Tec officially opened its algae-to-biofuels facility Shoalhaven One on 2 August, in New South Wales, Australia.
The facility showcases the company's algae growth and harvesting system, which can then be used to produce jet fuel or diesel.
Algae.Tec has recently recruited biofuels and aviation fuels specialist engineer Colin McGregor as GM of project operations.
Algae.Tec…
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