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Leaf Energy has completed trials at the Andritz pilot plant facility using its Glycerol Pretreatment Process on waste sugarcane in Ohio, US.
The company uses its patented technology to convert waste biomass into cellulose. This is then turned into biofuels, bioplastics and green chemicals.
A continuous processing rate up to 4.4 tonnes per day was achieved and is a step forward towards…
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Biodiesel producer and marketer Renewable Energy Group (REG) announced it has entered into an agreement with Dutch Hill Terminals, a heating oil terminal in New Jersey, to market biodiesel and biodiesel blended heating oil at its Clifton, New Jersey location.
'This terminal position will give us additional capacity to serve the existing markets in the Northeast and prepare for potential growth…
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Green Biologics, a UK-based technology developer and emerging bio-based C4 chemicals producer, has secured a £15.4 million (€18 million) investment which will allow them to begin executing plans to bring their first commercial production facility in the US on-stream in 2016.
The investment round is led by Sofinnova Partners with strategic participation by Swire Pacific. Follow on…
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Green Plains Renewable Energy has announced the completion of its acquisition of two 110 MMgy ethanol plants previously owned by Biofuel Energy.
The transaction includes the Pioneer Trail Energy plant in Wood River, Nebraska, and the Buffalo Lake Energy facility in Fairmont, Minnesota, both US. Green Plains purchased the plants from an entity composed of BioFuel Energy's lender group.
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Global technology provider of specialised biofuels and renewable chemicals, Biochemtex, is to invest around $200 million (€147 million) in its new cellulosic biofuels plant in Sampson County, North Carolina, US.
The firm will operate at the location as Carolina Cellulosic Biofuels, established in early 2013 as a special purpose vehicle for delivering the first commercial-scale cellulosic…
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Researchers at two leading Scottish universities have embarked on a £1.1m (€1.3 million) project to find a clean and effective way of producing biofuel using solar energy.
Robert Gordon University (RGU) experts Professor Linda Lawton and Professor Peter Robertson, alongside University of St Andrews Professor John Irvine, have been awarded funding by the Engineering and Physical…
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Argentina, one of the world's leading biodiesel producers, will require a 10% biodiesel blend in fuel burned for power generation, according to government officials.
In a bid to boost the struggling biofuels sector and increase the use of 'green fuels', the blending requirement for biofuel in the diesel used to run local vehicles will also be stepped to 10% in January, planning minister Julio de…
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The Tampa Port Authority has revealed the Tampa Gateway Rail has moved almost 4 million barrels of ethanol during its first year in operation.
The project, which cost $11 million (€8.1 million) and stretches two miles, moves product from ships to railroad tank cars while serving both the port’s cargo container facility and a Kinder Morgan Energy storage tank facility.
The rail facility…
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US-based Adkins Energy has been awarded a $500,000 (€371,945) Rural Energy for America Programme (REAP) grant to begin construction on a $4.5 million biodiesel plant on the east side of its Illinois campus.
The 2 million gallon facility is expected to begin production in spring 2014. The company’s ethanol arm currently produces 1.5 million gallons of distillers corn oil a year, which…
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Ecopetrol reports it has been awarded a patent from the Colombian Superintendence of Industry and Trade for a technology which makes it possible generate biofuels by refining vegetable oils and heavy oil fractions (such as gas oils) in a single process. The development, called Process for hydrotreating vegetable oil mixed with heavy oil fractions is the third patent related to biofuels that the…
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Boeing and GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes are to work together to speed the research, development and approval of new sources of sustainable aviation biofuel in Brazil.
Their collaboration will support GOL's plans to use this lower-carbon jet fuel on more flights during upcoming major sporting events, including the 2014 football World Cup, and also will benefit long-term development of a new…
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A report from a technical committee of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is, according to non-governmental organisations, under-estimating the amount of greenhouse gas emitted by palm oil grown on tropical peatlands by nearly 50%.
The low emissions estimate stems from a technical committee on wetlands of the Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories of the IPCC which…
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Sugar producer Roxas has sold 31% of its 66% share in Roxas Holdings to Hong Kong-based First Pacific PHP2.23 billion (€37.8 million).
Pedro Roxas, executive chairman of Roxas, says the move ‘ends the group’s long search for a strategic partner and will accelerate our plan to be the dominant sugar company in the Philippines’.
The move reportedly paves the way for the…
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Imperium Renewables will move ahead with plans to expand its business at the US Port of Grays Harbour despite the Shoreline Hearings Board’s decision to require additional permitting work.
Imperium Terminal Services submitted permit applications for the construction of new storage tanks, rail infrastructure and office space over 10 acres within the port and adjacent to its existing…
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