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Feb 23, 2009
Biofuel Industries Group’s plant faces meltdown
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Feb 23, 2009
The Glenturret distillery in Perthshire, Scotland, producer of Famous Grouse whisky, is partaking in a demonstration project to convert boiler exhaust gas into oil that can be used as a biodiesel.
Scottish Bioenergy Ventures, which is leading the project, is embarking on an expanded algae reactor system to consume the carbon dioxide.
The next phase of the project starting... [Read More]
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Feb 27, 2009
Boston, US-based Mascoma’s demonstration facility in Rome, New York, started producing ethanol from non-food cellulosic biomass on 25 February.
The plant has a production capacity of 200,000 gallons of cellulosic ethanol a year.
Construction on the plant began in early 2008 and was completed by December.
The demonstration facility can run on different biomass feedstocks,... [Read More]
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Feb 27, 2009
Biodiesel start-up company SarTec has announced it expects its production facility in Minnesota, US, to begin operations in Q2 this year.
The capacity of the plant will reach approximately 3 million gallons a year operating with the name Ever Cat Fuels.
In 2008 Augsburg College and SarTec announced the discovery of a chemical process that could help develop a new type... [Read More]
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Mar 2, 2009
Texas-based Global Alternative Fuels will expand its El Paso biodiesel plant from 5 mgy to 15 mgy.
The company is finalising the engineering for the $12 million (€9.5 million) expansion.
The producer plans to break ground in Q2.
‘Our current infrastructure allows for a fast implementation schedule,’ Carlos Guzmán, president and CEO of Global Alternative Fuels,... [Read More]
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Mar 4, 2009
Lionel Clarke, Global strategic programme manager for Innovation at Shell Global Solutions,
joins the list of 40 high level speakers at Biofuels International expo & conference 2009.
Shell is a world leader in R&D into next generation biofuels. Its technology division Shell Global Solutions has a dedicated bio-team working at several centres around the world... [Read More]
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Mar 5, 2009
South Dakota, US-based KL Energy and Prairie Green Renewable Energy of Alberta, Canada, are conducting a joint effort to develop a cellulosic ethanol plant near Hudson Bay, Saskatchewan, Canada.
The companies plan to build a plant that initially provides 5mgy of cellulose ethanol to the Saskatchewan market. Plans include a second facility that will allow doubling production.
The... [Read More]
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Mar 3, 2009
The Iowa Power Fund Board has approved a $14.75 million (€11.7 million) contract with Poet for the development of a commercial cellulosic ethanol plant in Emmetsburg, Iowa, US.
Poet’s Project Liberty will add 25 million gallons a year of cellulosic ethanol production capacity to an existing grain-to-ethanol plant in Emmetsburg, Iowa.
The project is jointly funded... [Read More]
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Mar 3, 2009
Honda Motor company has announced an agreement for the construction of a new cellulosic ethanol research facility in Japan.
Honda plans to build a single 1,050m2 building as a testing facility. The construction is scheduled to begin in April 2009, with operations targeted for November 2009.
The new Kazusa-branch facility of Honda R&D Fundamental Technology Research... [Read More]
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Mar 3, 2009
US producer Pacific Ethanol says it will temporarily close its $120 million (€95.4 million) ethanol plant in Burley in southwest Idaho.
Plant manager Ken Wilson says low petrol prices make biofuels too expensive to compete.
Burley Mayor Jon Anderson says it is unclear how long the plant could be mothballed. He notes company officials say it could be as short as three... [Read More]
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Mar 3, 2009
State-owned Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) plans to develop at least three ethanol plants in collaboration with other companies.
The plants will be set up in the southern province of Binh Phuoc, the northern province of Phu Tho, and at Dung Quat in the central province of Quang Ngai.
PetroVietnam will develop the facilities in the northern and southern... [Read More]
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Mar 6, 2009
Brazil’s oil giant Petrobras has announced a business plan for investments of $2.4 billion (€1.89 billion) into biodiesel and ethanol production for the 2009-2013 period, 91% of which will be in Brazil.
This amount is part of the total of $2.8 billion Petrobras has earmarked for the biofuels business, which also foresees expenditures of $400 million in infrastructure,... [Read More]
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Mar 9, 2009
The Netherlands-based private equity firm Waterland has reached a final agreement with sustainable energy company Econcern for participation in BioMCN’s biomethanol projects.
The additional capital enables producer BioMCN to continue further investments in the construction of processing units for the production of biomethanol, on the world’s largest second generation... [Read More]
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Mar 9, 2009
Brazil’s BNDES state development bank will lend 2.5 billion reais (€834 million) to ethanol producers to boost production.
The funding will be used to stockpile 3.3 billion litres of ethanol, the Agriculture Ministry says.
Producers will be required to commit some of their own funds to store ethanol, boosting total inventories under the programme to 5 billion litres,... [Read More]
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Mar 10, 2009
Brazilian company Uniduto Logistica will begin building the first phase of a major Brazilian ethanol pipeline in April 2010, with operations due for 2011-2012.
The pipeline will run from Brazil's main sugarcane-producing region in Sao Paulo state to the port of Santos.
The first phase has a budget of 1.8 billion reais (€603 million) to build 600km of pipeline.... [Read More]
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