In Belgium, ePure says the EU’s decision to repeal anti-dumping duties on fuel ethanol imports originating in the United States risks having serious consequences for the entire value chain of the European renewable ethanol industry – which accounts for 55,000 direct and indirect jobs in the EU. It would also affect EU climate ambitions by […]
By Mark Warner, PE, Founder, Warner Advisors LLC Special to The Digest At a basic level, an owner’s engineer is an experienced consultant brought onto the project team with a deep understanding of both the industry being supported and experience working with engineering and construction firms, thus able to represent the company interest. Commonly, it […]
Northwestern University has been conducting research on the identification of bioprivileged molecules using computational approaches at their Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. Linda J. Broadbelt from Northwestern University, gave this illuminating overview of novel pathways to propionic acid, identifying putative enzymes, evaluation of candidate bioprivileged molecules using data science, identification of bioprivileged molecules using […]
In Spain, Tank Storage Magazine reports that terminal operator Tepsa is looking to expand its used cooking oil storage as well as ethanol storage at the four Spanish terminals that it operates on the back of the Renewable Energy Directive’s mandate for 10% renewable blending in transportation by 2020. Even though the new RED that […]
In Switzerland, AirlineRatings.com reports that the Air Transportation Action Group says that aviation biofuel production capacity equaling about 1% of aviation fuel supply should be online by 2025, half way to what is considered the commercial tipping point of 7 billion liters annually. So far, about 180,000 flights have been flown on an aviation biofuel […]
In Vanuatu, Radio New Zealand reports that a total of 19 senior officials including the former prime minister, two MPs and French energy company UNLCO are all under investigation for misuse of $1.3 million awarded by the European Commission for biofuel project development in Torba, Penama and Malampa provinces. Nearly all of the funds have […]
In Nigeria, the local Guardian newspaper reports that the country imports as much as 350 million liters of ethanol production annually while only supplying 6% of demand from domestic production from two new facilities despite an abundance of cassava. The CEO of one of the facilities said that national policy has favored imports versus domestic […]
In Canada, Canada’s first national Bioeconomy Strategy, released by Bioindustrial Innovation Canada, reflects the views of more than 400 industry representatives from across the country. The Strategy recommends action on four key priority areas identified in foundational work by the Advisory Council on Economic Growth, the Economic Sector Strategy Tables, and Canada’s forestry ministers. These […]
In India, the Financial Express newspaper reports that sugar mills in Maharashtra are trying to negotiation with oil marketing companies long-term ethanol contracts in an effort to provide stability to its ethanol sector. In line with similar contracts used by mills when selling cogeneration electricity to the national grid via utilities that last 13 years, […]
In Australia, Chemical Engineering Magazine reports that an international team of researchers led by RMIT University in Melbourne has developed a way to efficiently transform CO2 into solid carbon, making it easier to store and to remove from the atmosphere rather than in liquid or gaseous states. Using a liquid metal electrocatalyst, researchers were able […]
