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Feb 19, 2010
Alien biofuel crops to be screened
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Feb 19, 2010
A Greenfield project is currently being developed in Sierra Leone, West Africa, by Addax Bioenergy.
A division of the Swiss-based energy corporation Addax and Oryx Group (AOG), Addax Bioenergy’s project will consist of a sugarcane plantation, an ethanol distillery and a biomass power plant.
Supported by the government of Sierra Leone and financed by European Development... [Read More]
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Feb 22, 2010
Chemists at the University of California (UC) Davis have developed a new process that allows safflower and other oilseed crops to be made into a combination of fuels, which has the potential to increase the production of biodiesel by 24%.
Mark Mascal, professor of chemistry at UC Davis, said, ‘Conventional biodiesel production extracts plant oils and then converts them... [Read More]
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Feb 22, 2010
In June 2009, General Biodiesel acquired and converted a Seattle-based commercial biodiesel refinery to produce biodiesel from waste oils such as recycled cooking oil and animal fat, which the company collects from restaurants and food stores around the region.
Throughout 2010 the company expects to produce between 3 and 5 million gallons of biodiesel, and hopes this... [Read More]
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Feb 4, 2010
With 40-60% oil contained inside each castor oil seed (or bean), Evogene’s establishment of castor bean fields may prove to be groundbreaking within the biofuels sector.
With a combined total of 3.8 billion litres of biodiesel being produced annually between the US and Brazil, Texas and northeastern Brazil are currently the two target locations for future commercial... [Read More]
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Feb 5, 2010
H.E. Mr. Jan Dusík, Minister of the Environment for the Czech Republic, will be making the keynote presentation at the upcoming Biofuels International expo & conference in Prague on 5-6 May 2010.
Other confirmed speakers include PKN Orlen, ?ESKÁ RAFINÉRSKÁ, Petronas, Cepra A.S, The European Bioethanol Fuel Association, The European Biogas Association, HSBC, biofuel... [Read More]
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Feb 5, 2010
US president Barack Obama has established three steps to boost the production of biofuels.
Firstly, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalised a rule to implement the long-term renewable fuels standard of 36 billion gallons by 2022 established by Congress.
Second, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has also proposed a rule on the Biomass Crop Assistance... [Read More]
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Feb 5, 2010
A proposed biomass plant in Scott County, Indiana, has created chaos and outcry amongst locals.
The $100 million (€73 million) Liberty Green Renewables plant will burn untreated and unpainted woodchips that will generate electricity to supply to utilities across the region.
Liberty Green also plans to construct another biomass plant in Crawford County, near Milltown,... [Read More]
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Feb 5, 2010
RWE npower renewables has teamed up with paper maker Tullis Russell to construct a biomass plant.
RWE develops renewable energy in the UK and the new biomass plant and will be its biggest plant yet.
The facility will use biomass to provide steam and electricity to the company’s power plant. 50MW of energy will be generated, taking the place of the coal-burning plant... [Read More]
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Feb 8, 2010
After signing a contract with Biffa, a UK-based integrated waste management business, Sainsbury’s supermarket looks set to turn all of its food waste into biogas by 2012.
Biffa will use anaerobic digestion (AD) technology to create biogas from the discarded foodstuff, before it is injected into the national grid.
AD is a green and cheap solution of disposing of waste,... [Read More]
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Feb 8, 2010
In south Wisconsin, US, Valero Renewable fuels has purchased a biofuels plant for $72 million (€52.6 million).
The ethanol plant in Jefferson had been in business for six years and had the capacity to produce 110mgy of ethanol, before Renew Energy declared itself bankrupt. 70 employees were threatened with redundancy if a buyer was not found.
Valero was the winning... [Read More]
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Feb 8, 2010
In the US, San Antonio-based terminal operator NuStar Energy has begun to receive and offload ethanol unit trains in Stockton and Selby, two of its locations in northern California.
Both terminals are capable of receiving single manifest rail cars up to full unit trains.
The Stockton terminal is a 1 million-barrel-facility and Selby is a 3-million-barrel-facility.... [Read More]
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Feb 9, 2010
The Philippines-based National Power (Napocor) is joining with French company Enertine to provide biomass-derived power in the archipelago’s non-grid areas.
Agricultural by-products such as rice and sugarcane husks, crop stalks, logging residues and dead wood will be used to fuel more remote areas.
The project will be carried out under Napocor’s Small Power Utilities... [Read More]
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Feb 9, 2010
A biomass to energy project has been launched in Mason County, Washington, US.
A joint venture formed between Duke Energy and Areva, John Deere and Adage will own and operate the 55MW plant.
The plant will use woody biomass from local forests and fuel supply contracts are still being negotiated by Adage.
The company is in the process of finalising power purchasing... [Read More]
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Feb 9, 2010
Biofuels International expo & conference has changed its name to Bioenergy International expo & conference to reflect its new focus.
The event, being held in Prague on 5-6 May, will have three streams looking at biodiesel, bioethanol and bioenergy.
With all the media speculation surrounding biofuels and their impact on food security, food prices and emissions... [Read More]
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