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Volume 3, Issue 8
Published: October 21, 2009
US industry looks to 2010 for reprieve
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The public comment period on the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s ) proposals for the expanded Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) closed on 25 September 2009, and comments came from as far as...
Asian analysis
A large share of biofuels production capacity in southeast Asia is targeted at export markets. In weak domestic markets many producers are hoping for an upturn in demand in Europe as well as further opportunities...
Taking control
Two French sugar manufacturers Champagne Cereales and Cristal Union opened an 80 million gallon a year ethanol facility, termed Cristanol, in Bazancourt-Pomacle, France in June 2007, dedicated to the production...
Next generation biofuels: the big picture
The EU and the US are the two largest consumers of petroleum fuels, yet they remain paralysed by indecision on the proper definitions for sustainable biofuels regulations, land use criteria, mandates,...
Overcoming the odds
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Vance Bioenergy is one of the first large-scale biodiesel producers in southeast Asia. The group is based in the Asian financial capital of Singapore and has its state-of-the-art production facilities...
Bioenergy plant update
Australia’s widelydispersed population accounts in part for the nation’s dependency on petroleum. Motorists frequently navigate the isolated roads which cross vast expanses of empty agricultural land...
The plant camel
It seems that for every potential biofuel feedstock, there is an argument to counter it. Palm oil and sugarcane farming poses the issue of clearing valuable rainforests, corn-based ethanol production sparks...
Pipelines: a decided reality for ethanol transport
In the US and Brazil, the majority of ethanol and biodiesel production capacity is geographically removed from high fuel consuming population centres and export terminals. This stresses reliance on rail...
The nature of storing nature
As utilities rack up their renewable credentials, an effi cient plan for collecting the agricultural material, transporting, processing, storing and burning it is essential. Green power plant operators...
Going beyond greenhouse gas emissions
Back in 2002 the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) began investigating noncompliance with the requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA) within the ethanol industry. At the time the largest company...