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Praj Industries, a solutions provider for sugar mills and breweries, will soon start commercial production of second generation cellulosic ethanol using agro waste and municipal solid waste as feedstock.
The company, will set up a manufacturing facility with a capacity of 20,000 to 30,000 litres per day and an investment of over Rs 70 crore (€510 million).
Praj already runs a pilot plant…
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Brazil's Gol airlines will use a 4% biofuel mixture to power 200 flights over the course of the World Cup.
Biokerosene flights indicate 'that it is possible to reduce emissions voluntarily though technological innovation,' says Izabella Teixeira, Brazilian Environment Minister.
The Brazilian airline reports that biokerosene can cut emissions of CO2 by up to 80%.
In October last year, Amyris…
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Ennovor Group, a European biodiesel producer, has earned the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB) sustainability certification for its biodiesel produced from used cooking oil methyl ester (UCOME).
The company uses an online 'digital chain of custody' record for every consignment of biofuel it trades. It focuses on converting natural and recovered oil and fats, such as used cooking oil…
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AVA Biochem is looking for partners to build large-scale production plants for renewable platform chemical 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural (5-HMF).
Production of 5-HMF started this year at the Biochem-1 facility in Muttenz, Switzerland.
The company's plant, which currently has a capacity of 20 tonnes per year, can implement bulk 5-HMF, using the company's modified hydrothermal carbonisation process.
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The United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) and the Canadian National Research Council (NRC) are researching the use of biofuels in their flights by undertaking a joint testing project under the ACCESS-II project (Alternative Fuel Effects on Contrails and Cruise Emissions).
The flight campaign, made up of over 100 scientists and…
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Wolfgang Vogel, chairman of Union zur Förderung der Oel- und Proteinpflanzen - Union for the Promotion of Oil and Protein Plants (UFOP), is urging the greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction quota be increased from 3% to 4.5%.
In a letter to Barbara Hendricks, German federal minister for the environment, Vogel also demanded that the obligation to reduce GHG emissions planned for 2017 be brought…
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Cool Planet Energy Systems, a sustainable energy technology provider, is moving forward with the construction of three small scale biomass-to-petrol refineries.
Work began on the first of these in Louisiana in February this year. The second plant will be located at the Natchitoches port, while the third plant's location is yet to be determined.
Construction of the Natchitoches facility is…
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Södra and Statkraft have signed a letter of intent to create a company that will produce biofuels using forest raw material.
The agreement means that Statkraft, a renewable energy producer, will acquire Södra Cell Tofte, which owns the industrial site of the former Tofte pulp plant in Hurum, Norway.
'Södra is monitoring with great interest the technology developments and…
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KLM has launched a six month biofuel trial using an A330-200 on flights from Amsterdam Schiphol to Aruba and Bonaire in the Netherlands Antilles.
The Initiative Towards Sustainable Kerosene for Aviation (ITAKA) sourced the biofuel for the flight, which was supplied by SkyNRG.
KLM says: 'This marks another step forward on the journey to more sustainable aviation, by reducing CO2 emissions and fuel…
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The Clinton Fire Department responded to a fire at 8:05 pm on Thursday 15th May at Darling International's facility at 1423 Beaver Channel Parkway.
Firefighters found a vessel used for bagging Darling's product on fire within the plant.
Crews remained on scene for approximately 90 minutes to extinguish the fire and hot spots.
No injuries have been reported.
An investigation into the cause of the…
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A new report says glycerol, a by-product of biodiesel production will be a $2.1 billion (€1.5 billion) industry by 2018.
The Transparency Market Research report says that the global demand for glycerol will reach 3,060 kilotonnes by 2018, generating more than $2 billion in revenues.
Over the last three years, glycerol has been progressively studied as a platform chemical for a host of…
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Domestic palm oil producers, experts and potential investors will focus on biodiesel production, trade certification and increasing palm oil output during an international conference in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Palm oil industry representatives will urge these points to be addressed during the fifth annual International Conference and Exhibition on Palm Oil (ICEPO).
'What we need now is research,…
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A recent report from market research providers, Navigant Research, says that worldwide revenue from biofuels for road transportation will grow from $166.5 billion (€121 billion) per year in 2014 to $337.8 billion (€246 billion) by 2022.
Over the next 8 years, biofuels are expected to become a significant part of the fuel mix for road transportation, accounting for 7.5% of liquid fuels…
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By 2030, young mallee trees could create an aviation grade bio kerosene.
Airline operations from Perth could see its flights fuelled up to 100% with the aviation grade bio kerosene, according to a report by the Future Farm Industries Cooperative Centre (CRC).
The mallee jet fuel sustainability and life-cycle assessment study provides evidence to support continued R&D on mallee production -…
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The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) has selected a biofuels project as one of five energy projects to receive NextGen Energy funding totalling $1.69 million (€1.24 million), under the Agricultural Growth, Research and Innovation programme.
The Easy Energy Systems will receive a $500,000 grant for building a biofuel production facility capable of testing multiple feedstocks,…
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Renewable Energy Group will buy Tyson Foods' 50% share of Dynamic Fuels.
The Iowa-based ethanol producer will buy Dynamic Fuels' Geismar biofuels plant, which makes diesel from animal fat, in an agreement that could be worth up to $65 million (€48 million).
The Geismar facility was the first large-scale biorefinery in the US and can produce up to 75 million gallons of renewable…
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The Global Renewable Fuels Alliance (GRFA) is forecasting global ethanol production and use in 2014 will reduce GHG emissions by over 106 million metric tonnes.
The GRFA in cooperation with (S&T)² Consultants released their Global Green House Gas (GHG) Emissions Reduction Forecast for 2014.
Compared to last year, this figure for 2014 shows that 90.38 billion litres of global ethanol…
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