Licella is transforming plastic and biomass waste into high value sustainable resources. Their Cat-HTR platform uses water at high temperature and pressure to transform wastes and residues to synthetic crude oil, chemically equivalent to fossil crude. Steve Rogers from Licella shared this illuminating presentation at ABLC NEXT in San Francisco.
In the UK, ICIS reports that increased demand for biodiesel in Europe is seen pressuring tallow supplies which is expected to increase prices, potentially to the point of making them unviable as feedstock. In the meantime, as European countries look towards advanced biofuels and the use of waste feedstocks as they move away from crop-based […]
In Malaysia, the New Straits Times newspaper reports that the planned Sarawak Biovalley is now a step closer to reality following signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Sarawak Research and Development Council and Curtin Biovalley Sdn Bhd (CBV), a subsidiary of Curtin Malaysia, who will manage, operate and maintain the Sarawak Biovalley. The […]
In Belgium, the Brussels Times newspaper reports that both gasoline and diesel are expected to increase by 2 cents per liter at the pump from January after biofuel blending is increased to 9.6% in order to comply with the Renewable Energy Directive and the Fuel Quality Directive. Most European countries have rushed to get the […]
In Indonesia, Cogencis news agency reports the Oil Palm Plantation Fund Management Agency expects to reinstate the $50 per metric ton export levy on palm oil exports following the agency’s $80 per ton increase in the reference price for January to $729.72 from December’s $650.18. A lower levy is lobbed on exports of downstream palm […]
In the UK, household waste, unused straw from farmland and old wood will be amongst the unusual components used by 4 world-leading UK-based plants to produce green fuels with support from government funding announced Monday. Between 2018 and 2032 low carbon fuels are expected to save nearly 85 million metric tons of CO2 – equivalent […]
In Iowa, Renewable Energy Group reported in an SEC 8-K form that following reinstatements and extensions of a set of tax provisions, including the retroactive reinstatement for 2018 and 2019 and extension for 2020 through 2022 of the federal biodiesel mixture excise tax credit, with respect to the business it conducted in 2018 and in […]
In Washington state, researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory developed a new theoretical framework called minimal interspecies interaction adjustment (MIIA). It predicts how surrounding organisms and other factors drive changes in interactions in microbial communities. This new computational method improves our understanding of how microbes organize themselves into communities. It describes in detail how […]
In Washington, Platts reports that RIN price volatility is expected to continue in 2020 as the battle between farmers and biofuels interests against the oil industry drags on following the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to use a three-year average for recuperation of “lost gallons” resulting from small refinery exemptions. The Department of Energy had recommended […]
LanzaTech is turning our global carbon crisis into a feedstock opportunity with the potential to displace 30% of crude oil use today and reduce global CO2 emissions by 10%. By recycling carbon from industrial off-gases; syngas generated from any biomass resource (e.g. municipal solid waste (MSW), organic industrial waste, agricultural waste); and reformed biogas, LanzaTech […]
