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Nov 18, 2009
Korea considers using biofuels
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Nov 19, 2009
Poet Energy, the US’ largest corn-based ethanol producer, sees the race between cellulosic ethanol and petrol prices head-to-head by 2011.
Poet’s one-year-old pilot plant in South Dakota has minimised the cost of making ethanol from corn cobs from $4.13 (€2.77) a gallon to $2.35 a gallon by slimming down capital costs and using an improved cocktail of enzymes.
‘Two... [Read More]
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Nov 19, 2009
Elsewhere in the US, cellulosic ethanol developer ZeaChem has begun construction on its 250,000 gallon a year semi-commercial scale production facility in Oregon.
The company has enlisted Hazen Research to fabricate the front-end fermentation modules and will install the units at ZeaChem’s. The facility is expected to be fully operational by the end of 2010.
The... [Read More]
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Nov 23, 2009
Texas-based Valero is reaping the benefits of buying seven corn ethanol plants for $477 million (€316 million).
The company’s high profits are linked to an increase in demand for ethanol. This is most likely due to the low prices of corn and the government mandates to boost usage.
Valero’s profits are spurring producers on to ask the EPA to increase the blend of... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2009
Petroleum company Indian Oil is pondering pond matter as a biofuel.
The company has signed a memorandum of understanding with PetroAlgae to license the latter’s proprietary technology for producing and harvesting algae.
The Florida-based green fuel company has developed bioreactors and harvesting methods for converting algae grown in open-pond freshwater farms into... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2009
Spain’s agricultural potential could prove more energetic than before.
The nation has the resources for agro-industrial biogas production of 8 billion m3 a year, a survey carried out by the Probiogas Project finds.
The biogas could be produced using the 83.5 million tonnes of agricultural by-products generated in Spain.
Spain produces 49 million tonnes a year of... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2009
The American Midwest is known for big things. Now a project to create the largest biomass-fuelled plant in the region has been granted approval.
The Public Service Commission of Wisconsin has unanimously approved the regional utility giant Xcel Energy’s plans to spend $58.1 million (€39 million) to upgrade its Bay Front Power Plant in Ashland, installing biomass gasification... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2009
Following a series of intensive tests this year, one airline company is to become the first to power an aeroplane carrying passengers.
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines will transport a limited number of passengers on a Boeing 747 on 23 November powered by a mixture of camelina-based oil and kerosene jet oil.
Camelina biofuel has been proven to reduce emissions by as much as... [Read More]
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Nov 6, 2009
The Philippines is enhancing its biofuel infrastructure following approval by the Department of Energy (DoE) for seven biofuel projects with combined investments of over P7 billion (€99 million).
The projects are a mixture of ethanol and biodiesel plants. The largest is a P3.4 billion ethanol facility to be undertaken by Cavite Biofuels Producers producing 34.4 million... [Read More]
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Nov 6, 2009
One of the world’s poorest countries, Ethiopia, is developing biofuel crops on over 500,000 hectares of arid land.
‘Castor oil plants, jatropha and palm oil plants are being developed to reduce land-locked Ethiopia's dependency on imported oil,’ Ephrem Hassen, coordinator of biofuels development in the Ministry of Mines and Energy, comments.
Ethiopia's... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2009
Azerbaijan is tapping into new alternative energy sources.
The country’s chairman of the parliamentary commission on energy, ecology and natural resources Valekh Alaskarov says Azerbaijan has the ability to use various types of alternative energy sources with a focus on biogas.
‘It will enable providing remote regions of the country with alternative energy expeditiously... [Read More]
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Nov 6, 2009
Tank Storage/Biofuels Asia expo & conference at the Suntec Centre, Singapore, is now just days away!
As an added incentive visitors to the combined exhibition on 19-20th November will now receive access to the complementary networking cocktail reception on 19th November at 17.00
This gives you an opportunity to network with both the speakers and the conference delegates.
Companies... [Read More]
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Nov 9, 2009
Nine biomass plants could be built in Scotland, UK, if a funding programme is fruitful.
UK-based investment company Invicta Capital has launched a fund aiming to raise £300 million (€336.5 million) to invest in the plants, which will produce up to 90 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy.
The plants will produce enough power to supply 140,000 homes using biomass technology... [Read More]
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Nov 9, 2009
It must be the luck of the Irish – the UK Government has implemented a new environmental regulation under which fuel companies must sell 4% of sales in biofuels in Ireland by July 2010.
The Government approved the biofuels obligation a year later than originally envisaged. There will be a requirement that the biofuels used by oil companies must produce 35% less greenhouse... [Read More]
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Nov 9, 2009
Funds for a Chilean biomass power plant have been approved.
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) gave the go-ahead on a loan of $6.5 million (€4.3 million) to build a 15.6-megawatt biomass power plant in the South American country.
The plant will use agricultural, forestry and industrial waste as fuel, emitting zero carbon dioxide, meeting the strict international... [Read More]
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