In Indonesia, the decision to require trains to run on B20 will be made before July following a nearly year long hiatus after engine problems were discovered potentially linked to the higher biodiesel blend. Trains were mandated to run on B20 in 2016. Six months of testing that began at the beginning of this year […]
In Brazil, Reuters reports that around 100 sugar mills are set to plant nearly a thousand acres of GMO sugarcane this year as the first commercial trials of the technology get underway. The Centro de Tecnologia Canavieira has been working for more than a decade to develop a cane variety resistant to cane borer. The […]
In Nigeria, following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding last year between the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and the state government of Kebbi, farmers have been planting sugarcane to supply a new ethanol facility that will be developed there. The governor has promised to provide harvesting machinery to facilitate the cane harvest as well […]
In India, the head of Scania India told ETAuto that although electric vehicles are the long-term solution for heavy-duty transport, biodiesel provides short-term solutions for cleaner air and reducing the national oil import bill now. While the company is running trials of its electric buses in the country, a lot of technological development and maturity […]
In Brazil, the CEO of BSbios told Reuters he will exercise his preferential right to buy Petrobras’ 50% share in the company via his R.P.Bio company. The rights are outlined in the shareholder agreement. With the government moving forward the B10 blending mandate a year earlier from B8 previously, he said he was positive about […]
In Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin at Madison researchers are focusing on a class of reactions that break down biomass by dissolving it in a mixture of water, a cosolvent and an acid catalyst. By modeling how tens of thousands of atoms move and interact with each other, they showed that the cosolvent speeds up the […]
In Washington, Reuters reports that after what seemed to be three failed meetings hosted by the White House last week to break the impasse over the Renewable Fuel Standard between oil and corn states, Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley took to President Trump’s favorite medium—Twitter—to announce a potential way forward could be found through year-round approval […]
Does 1+1=3? That’s the premise of this ABLC 2018 presentation from LEC’s John Forcier which looks at the challenges and opportunities in anaerobic digesters. There’s a significant energy gain (3 to 10 times manure/sludge only) from adding appropriate feedstocks, Forcier says — and his illuminating overview of the promise and progress with advanced digester systems was a […]
The 50 Hottest Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy, as voted by the invited international Selectors and subscribers of The Digest, the world’s most widely-read bioeconomy daily.
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