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A fire broke out at the Rio Valley Biofuels plant near Anthony, New Mexico, after a series of small explosions.
The fire, reported shortly after 9am, sent a plume of black smoke into the air, prompting authorities to briefly evacuate the surrounding area.
Witnesses reported hearing loud explosions and seeing large flames as fire engines and emergency services came to the scene. No injuries have…
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Renewable energy provider, Patriot Renewable Fuels, has hired Leifmark for the first stage of a plan to co-locate an Inbicon Biomass Refinery on the site of Patriot's 110 MMgy grain to ethanol plant.
Leifmark, a group of bioenergy marketing specialists, is using its Incibon patented technology to create a custom Project Definition.
The plant, located in Annawan, Illinois, will process about 1320…
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Researchers at the Institute of Food Research, UK, are researching how to turn straw from oilseed rape into biofuel.
Straw from crops such as wheat, barley, oats and oilseed rape is a potential source of biomass for second generation biofuel production.
Professor Keith Waldron and his team used the facilities at the Biorefinery Centre on the Norwich Research Park, to analyse the procedure…
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Industry representatives expect Brazil's government to announce an increase to the minimum requirement of biodiesel that is blended into diesel.
The decision would increase the biodiesel requirement to 6% in July and 7% in November from the current 5%, lowering Brazil's diesel fuel imports.
Modifying this blend requirement has been considered for years but experienced opposition from the Finance…
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A ceremony to mark the start of the construction of Empyro's pyrolysis oil production plant has taken place.
The Empryo project, coordinated by BTG Biomass Technology Group, is building the factory at the AkzoNobel site in Hengelo, The Netherlands.
Production capacity will gradually increase to its maximum of over 20 million litres per year of pyrolysis oil.
Construction is set to finish by the…
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Drexel University will conduct research to improve knowledge on the feasibility of grease-to-biodiesel processes.
The Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF) has chosen the university to monitor and quantify the composition of waste greases.
The Extraction of Lipids from Wastewater to Produce Biofuels project is an evaluation of the economic and environmental sustainability of converting…
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The Global Renewable Fuels Alliance (GRFA) is forecasting global ethanol production and use in 2014 will reduce GHG emissions by over 106 million metric tonnes.
The GRFA in cooperation with (S&T)² Consultants released their Global Green House Gas (GHG) Emissions Reduction Forecast for 2014.
Compared to last year, this figure for 2014 shows that 90.38 billion litres of global ethanol…
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Renewable Energy Group will buy Tyson Foods' 50% share of Dynamic Fuels.
The Iowa-based ethanol producer will buy Dynamic Fuels' Geismar biofuels plant, which makes diesel from animal fat, in an agreement that could be worth up to $65 million (€48 million).
The Geismar facility was the first large-scale biorefinery in the US and can produce up to 75 million gallons of renewable…
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The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) has selected a biofuels project as one of five energy projects to receive NextGen Energy funding totalling $1.69 million (€1.24 million), under the Agricultural Growth, Research and Innovation programme.
The Easy Energy Systems will receive a $500,000 grant for building a biofuel production facility capable of testing multiple feedstocks,…
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By 2030, young mallee trees could create an aviation grade bio kerosene.
Airline operations from Perth could see its flights fuelled up to 100% with the aviation grade bio kerosene, according to a report by the Future Farm Industries Cooperative Centre (CRC).
The mallee jet fuel sustainability and life-cycle assessment study provides evidence to support continued R&D on mallee production -…
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A recent report from market research providers, Navigant Research, says that worldwide revenue from biofuels for road transportation will grow from $166.5 billion (€121 billion) per year in 2014 to $337.8 billion (€246 billion) by 2022.
Over the next 8 years, biofuels are expected to become a significant part of the fuel mix for road transportation, accounting for 7.5% of liquid fuels…
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Domestic palm oil producers, experts and potential investors will focus on biodiesel production, trade certification and increasing palm oil output during an international conference in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Palm oil industry representatives will urge these points to be addressed during the fifth annual International Conference and Exhibition on Palm Oil (ICEPO).
'What we need now is research,…
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A new report says glycerol, a by-product of biodiesel production will be a $2.1 billion (€1.5 billion) industry by 2018.
The Transparency Market Research report says that the global demand for glycerol will reach 3,060 kilotonnes by 2018, generating more than $2 billion in revenues.
Over the last three years, glycerol has been progressively studied as a platform chemical for a host of…
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