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Jan 30, 2009
Indonesia to subsidise biofuel
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Jan 30, 2009
The five railroad trains at Disneyland in the US began running on biodiesel made with waste vegetable oil from the resort’s restaurants and hotels on 28 January.
Park officials tried a soyabean-based biodiesel starting in 2007 on the trains that circle a one-mile perimeter of the park. The project was abandoned in November 2008 following issues with storage underground.
Officials... [Read More]
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Feb 2, 2009
Gas made from waste food or sewage could heat half of the UK’s homes, a study by Ernst and Young on behalf of utility firm National Grid finds.
Biodegradable waste could be used to make biomethane which would be piped into the gas grid, and would help achieve targets to source 15% of all energy from renewable sources by 2020.
Biogas, which is already being produced... [Read More]
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Feb 2, 2009
Japan Airlines completed a 90-minute flight powered by fuel with a 50% biodiesel blend on 30 January.
The flight is the first to use camelina oil, which made up 84% of the biofuel blend. The remainder was less than 16% jatropha oil and the rest algae oil.
The camelina blend was used in the No. 3 engine made by Pratt & Whitney. The Boeing 747-300 aircraft took off... [Read More]
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Feb 2, 2009
UK-based food waste recycler Prosper de Mulder (PDM) has announced plans to spend £110 million (€123 million) over the next three years on waste to energy plants.
The company will construct five new food waste-to-energy plants using both biomass and anaerobic digestion (AD) technology.
PDM will secure 17,000 tonnes a year of waste from UK supermarket Sainsbury's... [Read More]
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Feb 3, 2009
California-headquartered Sirona Fuels has acquired producer Blue Sky Biofuels.
Blue Sky Biofuels’ Oakland, California-based biodiesel refinery is permitted for 15 million gallons a year and is currently producing ASTM-spec biodiesel from recycled cooking oil.
Sirona has implemented plans for the rapid expansion of its used cooking oil collection business, and by the... [Read More]
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Jan 6, 2009
PetroAlgae, a US-based developer of systems to produce biofuel from algae, announced that it has closed on a $10 million (€7.4 million) capital raise through the sale of approximately 3.2 million of newly-issued shares of common stock to two existing investors.
The company said that the proceeds from the stock sale will be used to help finance the commercial launch... [Read More]
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Jan 7, 2009
US-headquartered Magellan Midstream Partners has added ethanol blending capabilities at two Texas-based terminals, including a third truck rack lane at its terminal in Fort Worth.
The Fort Worth terminal now has 18,000 barrels of ethanol storage. In addition, the facility can receive ethanol via truck through an automated off-loading system that is open 24 hours a day.
The... [Read More]
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Jan 13, 2009
The US’ second largest ethanol producer VeraSun Energy has suspended three distilleries, due to descending demand and high production costs.
The company has discontinued output at its 100 million gallon a year plants in Bloomingburg, Ohio, Albion, Nebraska, and Linden, Indiana.
Corn rose 58% from January to July last year before falling to 13% from year to year levels... [Read More]
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Jan 13, 2009
Following a successful start-up in Q4 2008, Poet Research Center in Scotland, South Dakota, US, is now producing cellulosic ethanol at a pilot scale.
The Scotland plant is producing ethanol at a rate of 20,000 gallons a year using corn cobs as feedstock.
The $8 million (€6 million) endeavour is a precursor to the $200 million Project Liberty, a commercial-scale cellulosic... [Read More]
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Jan 14, 2009
The world’s first legal bio-fuelled flying car is set to journey 3,600 miles from London to Timbuktu.
The Parajet Skycar is a dune buggy with a fan motor and paragliding wing attached.
While on the ground, the Skycar runs off a biofuel-powered engine capable of taking it from 0-60mph in 4.5 seconds with a top speed of 108mph.
The expedition will travel through France,... [Read More]
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Jan 14, 2009
Canada-based biofuels and biochemicals technology Enerkem has announced that its first commercial-scale plant located in Westbury, Quebec, is entering start-up phase and will soon begin production of the company's clean conditioned synthesis gas.
The company’s Westbury plant will process treated wood from used electricity poles. At full capacity it will produce... [Read More]
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Jan 15, 2009
US-based ZeaChem, a developer of biorefineries for the conversion of biomass into fuels and chemicals, has raised $34 million (€26 million) in initial Series B financing.
ZeaChem is developing a cellulose-based green fuels and chemicals biorefinery platform that converts renewable non-food biomass into market-competitive products such as ethanol.
ZeaChem will begin... [Read More]
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Jan 15, 2009
Emami Biotech, the first biodiesel production company in Eastern India, has started production at its plant in Haldia.
The plant was started in 2007 and is aiming for a capacity of 100,000 tonnes of biodiesel a year.
The biofuel plant is a collaboration with Desmet Ballestra, an Italian-Belgian joint enterprise, with a total project cost of Rs 1.5 billion (€23.3 million).... [Read More]
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Jan 15, 2009
New York-based renewable fuels producer Innovation Fuels has acquired the former Shell Oil terminal at the Port of Milwaukee in the US.
Innovation Fuels says it will use the 310,000 barrel capacity terminal to bring biodiesel and other renewable fuels in and out of the Midwest to the east coast and overseas.
The terminal was built in the 1950s as Shell Oil's Milwaukee... [Read More]
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