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Volume 10, Issue 2
Published: February 26, 2016
Big Interview
Clariant, a Swissspeciality chemicals manufacturer,has invested ininnovative technology to promote cellulosic biofuels. Liz Gyekye caught up withthe company’s biofuels andderivatives head of...
Automating advanced biofuels development
For decades, consumers around the world havedepended on fossilfuels such as gas and oil to meet their energy requirements. Although they are continually beingformed through natural processes, fossil fuels...
2017: A road fuel odyssey
From 2017, the European sugarmarket deregulates. Production quotas – themainstay sugar production– will be swept away, along with guaranteed prices. Along with that, Europe’s splendidisolation...
Implementing the unimplementable
Ten months after the European Parliament formally adopted the much-debated Indirect Land Use Change (ILUC) Directive, the policy is still dividing opinions acrossEurope. The main purpose of ILUC is to...
Making of a certain sector
The Indirect Land UseChange (ILUC) theory has been linked to biofuels over the last few years. It generally refers to the unintended consequence of releasing more carbon emissions due to land use changes...
Strength in sustainability
Responsibility is about values,commitments andactions. It is shown every day that innovative and responsible business canbe efficient and profitable,bringing quality of life andprosperity to stakeholders....
Attack of the clones
The development of an extensive hydrotreatedvegetableoil (HVO) feedstock production enterprise in Paraguay, funded by French, Dutch, and UK investors,reached a significant milestone in February with the...
Giving credit where it's due
The US Congress passed in last December a tax extenders package to retroactively extend a blenders’ tax credit for biodiesel and a producers’credit for cellulosic biofuels from the beginning...
No dumping on China
China’s Ministry of Commerce (MoC)has launched anti-dumpingand countervailing duties investigations on US dried distillers grains with solubles(DDGS) imports. The move, announced mid-January,comes...
Mircoalgae in industry
Microalgae,single-celled photosynthetic organisms, have great potential as a renewablesource for a tremendousrange of commercial products,such as biofuels, foods and feed (human and animal),nutraceuticals...
Extracting oils from 'ugly' wastes
Many people haveheard of theexpression “where there is muck, thereis brass”. Yet, not many wouldhave heard the saying “where there is muck, there is oil”. The resource management...
The path to commercialisation
In December 2015 anannouncement was made regarding the planned construction of a 5 tonnes per day IH2 technology demonstration plant on thesite of Shell India Markets’new technology centrein Bangalore,...
Achieving effective fermentation
One part that seemsto slip past thefocus in fuel ethanol plant fermentation is how to make the process efficient and how to create a healthy, fast, and thorough fermentation. One of the most overlooked...
Out with the old
Crimson Renewable Energy owns and operates a biodiesel production facility in Bakersfield, California, that is currently the largest producer of biodiesel within the statein terms of actual volumes shipped....
Bio-based building blocks
With new economic conditions,2016 apparently started as a challenging year. Yet this new environment does not alter the perspectives for bio-basedchemicals. Feedstocks are stil llow, advanced economies...
Making sense of it all
We are currently in the third generation of biofuels production, where custom engineered micro-organisms are used to convert feedstock to fuel more efficiently and cost effectively. But with this new opportunity...
Good storage practice: ensuring high quality biodiesel
The extensive use of biodiesel as a component in diese lfuel or bio-basedheating oil leads to increased requirements for storage and long-term stability. In a nine-month storage testabout the stability...
Biofuel quality issues
In 2010, Minton, Treharne & Davies (MTD), a UK-based engineer consultancy,produced an article for the Carefully to Carry Advisory Committee of the UK P&I Club,in which it discussed issues relating...
All on board?
Platts publishes several fuel ethanol price benchmarks tailored to specific markets in the US, Brazil, Europe and Asia that are used by the industry to manage risk in this growing market and along the...
Working on tankers: Safety in storage
The biofuels industry is full of risks. There are risks associated withhandling products andrisks connected with using and repairing equipment. Loadtec Engineered Systemswas set up almost 20 yearsago primarily...
Hydrothermal liquefaction of biomass: a pilot plant
Whilst a wide range of sustainable solutions for our general energy demand are becoming increasingly available, there still exists the need for new and ever more efficient methods of providing sustainable...