A series of columns from the major trade associations in the biofuel industry: the National Biodiesel Board, Growth Energy and ePURE, providing expert insight on the latest policy and market developments...

Biomass-based diesel supply made available in the US market in May increased 9.2% from April according to the Environmental Protection Agency, although that compares with a 26% month-to-month increase...

Long used for little more than fire wood or as a boundary tree across Sub-Saharan Africa, the croton tree is proving to be a vital source of biofuel for Kenya, one of the continent’s fastest growing...

Aviation biofuel innovator Agrisoma Biosciences has its sights set on a worldwide production base for its fuel-producing carinata crop of somewhere between 30 and 40 million acres, sufficient to satisfy...

The twin fears in the 1990s of global warming and of peak oil resulted in urgent searching for possible solutions, including plant oil production from species such as the Central American woody herb jatropha...

Jatropha curcas has been promoted as an environmentally and socially acceptable biofuel crop. Conventional jatropha contains toxic phorbol esters in addition to other antinutrient secondary compounds,...

Since entering the industry almost 25 years ago, ICM has designed about half of the 200 ethanol plants in the United States, along with plants in Canada, Europe and South America. With a substantial focus...

As ethanol plants recognise the value of increased Distiller’s Corn Oil (DCO) extraction, new technologies are being adopted to release the bound oil. To obtain maximum benefit of the innovations...

E arlier this year, scientists from the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) announced a breakthrough that could have a major impact on the production of cellulosic...