In Australia, gene-editing sugarcane for use in renewable energy and bio-plastics could help secure the industry’s future. Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation researchers at the University of Queensland supported by the US Joint BioEnergy Institute and Sugar Research Australia through an Australian Research Council Linkage grant are testing a range of sugarcane varieties […]
In Pennsylvania, a proposed ASTM International standard aims to offer a new way to determine biodiesel content in diesel fuel oil. The standard (WK55232) is being developed by the organization’s committee on petroleum products, liquid fuels, and lubricants (D02). It focuses on the use of portable, rapid, mid-infrared analyzers. Once the standard has been approved, […]
In Japan, the Jakarta Post newspaper reports the energy minister told Indonesians living in the country that the government has set a two-year deadline for state-owned power producer PLN to shift away from diesel completely and replace the fuel used for producing power to 100% palm oil-based biodiesel. The news came as part of a […]
In Brazil, Platts reports that UNICA data shows sugar mills continued to produce ethanol well into the second half of February with a total of 74 million liters of ethanol produced during the period. However, due to increased demand for hydrous ethanol, 35 million liters of anhydrous ethanol was reprocessed into hydrous, bring the total […]
In Oregon, Wood has secured a multimillion-dollar construction contract from IR1 Group LLC, which is building the Red Rock Biofuels facility in Lakeview, Oregon. Wood is contracted to provide construction and mechanical services. The facility will convert waste woody biomass into renewable jet, diesel and gasoline blendstock fuels. The construction of the Lakeview facility is expected to […]
In Singapore, Ship and Bunker reports that South Korea’s GF Oil and Sejong Technologies have teamed up with Indonesia’s Korindo to sell vegetable oil-based bunkering fuel in Singapore. The trio are looking for bunkering partners active in the Southeast Asian shipping hub to bring the project to reality. The idea is to produce up to […]
In the Netherlands, IKEA Transport & Logistics Services, CMA CGM, the GoodShipping Program and the Port of Rotterdam have announced they will cooperate in a first of its kind partnership to test and scale the use of sustainable marine bio-fuel oil. The test will commence with a landmark bunkering of the marine bio-fuel oil on […]
In Washington, Reuters reports that the Environmental Protection Agency should finalize its decisions within the next week whether or not it will grant small refinery hardship waivers for the seven applications still pending from 2017, which then allow it to start analyzing those applications made in 2018. The agency was sued last month by Kern […]
In Italy, Eni signed an agreement with COREPLA, the National Consortium for the Collection, Recycling and Recovery of Plastic Packaging, to launch research projects to produce hydrogen from non-recyclable plastic packaging waste. The agreement defines the joint working group that will, over the next six months, assess the launching of research projects to produce hydrogen […]
In Tennessee, ReactWell, LLC, has licensed a novel waste-to-fuel technology from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to improve energy conversion methods for cleaner, more efficient oil and gas, chemical and bioenergy production. ReactWell will bring ORNL’s electrochemical process, which converts carbon dioxide directly into ethanol, into the company’s existing conversion solution known […]
