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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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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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PV Oil, a subsidiary of state-run PetroVietnam, is planning to buy out a 71% stake in a joint venture ethanol plant in the southern province of Binh, Vietnam.
The Binh Phuoc ethanol factory, built by Orient Bio Fuels, a joint venture between Itochu, PV Oil and Licogi 16, started commercial operations in early 2013, with the intention of producing up to 80,000 tonnes per year of ethanol.
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For the first time, ethanol storage measurements have been included in Genscape's recently published New York Harbour Product Storage Report.
Genscape, a provider of real-time data and intelligence for commodity and energy markets, has identified a 90% correlation between the petrol and distillate storage measurements in the NYH Product Storage Report and the EIA estimates for PADD 1B. The…
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Ceres, an agricultural biotechnology and seed company, is expanding its current research activities in Jalisco, Mexico.
The plant complements its product development activities in Brazil, as the company is commercialising sweet and high-biomass sorghum hybrids for use in renewable fuel and electricity production.
Ceres product developers can utilise shuttle testing and breeding, a technique that…
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Boeing and Embraer are opening a joint research centre to advance a sustainable aviation biofuel industry in Brazil.
Under a memorandum of understanding, the two aircraft manufacturers will carry out biofuel research together, as well as fund and coordinate research with Brazilian universities and other institutions.
The research will focus on technologies that address gaps in a supply chain for…
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Sintef scientists believe the UK's upcoming biofuels plant may influence Norway to bring the planned completion date of its jet fuel factory from 2020 to an earlier date.
British Airways has been working to ensure access to biofuel, also known as biojet, for the aviation industry. The company is working with US biofuels producer Solena Fuels.
On the site of the proposed plant, in Thurrock, Essex,…
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Agro EcoEnergy has invested $550 million (€400 million) in sugarcane farming for an ethanol project.
The subsidiary of Swedish based EcoEnergy Africa AB has set up a special purpose project company, Bagamoyo EcoEnergy, to develop a modern sugarcane plantation and factory that produces sugar, ethanol and power for the Tanzanian market.
The project is estimated to provide 10 million litres of…
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Construction of an $800 million (€580 million) crude oil tank farm proposed by Petroplex over six years ago finally looks to be going ahead in Louisiana, US, thanks to the St. James Parish Council.
The project, which includes a terminal on the Mississippi River, has received a waiver from St. James Parish's newly adopted land use plan that will allow it to proceed on more than 1,700 acres of…
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Researchers believe catalysts could improve the biofuels production process.
The deoxygenation of biomass such as corn stover or forestry waste could create a significant development in the production of biofuels.
Oils produced by high-temperature treatment of these waste materials contain a large amount of oxygenated compounds that lead to undesirable properties such as high viscosity and…
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Brazil and Angola are teaming up to construct Angola Bio-Energy's new ethanol plant.
The project, implemented for the first time in Angola, will produce approximately 260,000 tonnes of sugar and 30 million litres of ethanol, through sugarcane.
The factory has capacity to use 2 million tonnes of sugarcane per year. To date, 7,000 hectares of sugarcane have been planted on a 36,000-hectare…
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Syngar Technologies has started two separate joint venture projects that will, together, help make the conversion of hemp to cellulosic ethanol a possibility.
Syngar Technologies has licensed its Pulsed Low Ultra Sound Wave (PLUSWave) Technology, which uses ultrasound frequencies to stimulate the fermentation growth of algae, bacteria, and fungus or yeast microorganisms for use in ethanol…
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A previously bankrupt $52.5 million (€38 million) biodiesel plant in Beatrice, Nebraska, will begin production again by summer 2015.
Duonix, a joint venture between Wichita, Kansas-based Flint Hills Resources and Irving, Texas-based Benefuel, has begun assessing the preparation needed to install Benefuel's patented production process at the plant.
The company announced the joint venture with…
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