In Malaysia, Reuters reports that Malaysia’s primary industries minister said that her country together with Indonesia will file their official complaint against the European Union’s policy against palm oil in biofuel at the World Trade Organization’s dispute settlement body before year’s end. An outspoken Member of European Parliament from the Greens recently challenged the countries […]
Today, we’re looking again at 50 Companies to Disrupt the World, and the disruption in particular is the potential to supply nitrogen to corn through microorganisms that fix N from the air, instead of from fertilizer. Soybeans get it that way, so it’s tough science but not impossible. Has Pivot cracked it? Pivot Bio offers […]
By Gerard J. Ostheimer, Ph.D. (Managing Director, below50) and Douglas L. Faulkner (“the Clean Tech Conservative” & President, Leatherstocking LLC) Special to The Digest Is the tide starting to turn in favor once again of biofuels and biobased products? It can certainly still seem that the opposite is true, after a sluggish decade for these […]
In Brazil, Reuters reports JBS Biodiesel became the first biofuel company to be certified to issue decarbonization credits (CBios) under the National Biofuels Program (RenovaBio), according to information from company and the ANP regulator. The certification, which is being requested by a hundred biofuel producers, including ethanol companies, will allow companies to issue credits to […]
In Germany, the world’s first certification to RSB’s new Advanced Products Standard was announced with the launch of INOVYN’s latest generation of PVC with a 100% RSB-certified supply chain. For the production of BIOVYNTM fossil feedstock has been substituted with bio-attributed ethylene in the supply chain, a renewable feedstock that does not compete with the food […]
In France, Platts reports that the International Energy Agency says China’s plans to triple ethanol production over the next five years to 11 billion liters will help see overall global ethanol production increase by 25% in 2024 compared to 2018 at 190.3 billion liters. Last year’s five-year outlook report saw an estimate of 154 billion […]
In the Netherlands, Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) and biofuels supplier GoodFuels are set to take the next key step in the ‘Boskalis on Bio’ program for the testing of sustainable bio-fuel oil. Following earlier successful tests with ‘drop-in’ blends of light biofuel and marine gas oil, Boskalis’ Willem van Oranje will be the first […]
In Kansas, operators fueling at Avflight Salina helped further business aviation’s carbon neutrality goals by flying on Avfuel’s sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Flight starting fueling on Friday, October 19 and will continue through Sunday, October 20. This effort is in coordination with an industry wide initiative to meet carbon neutrality goals and part of a broader […]
In France, the International Energy Agency says improving security of supply is a fundamental reason for the introduction of biofuel policy support in China, India and Indonesia, which in turn has raised production prospects. Combined, these countries account for 40% (15 billion liters) of biofuel production growth in the main case forecast (2019‑24). Crude oil import […]
In Texas, a catalytic reactor developed by Rice University researchers uses carbon dioxide as its feedstock and, in its latest prototype, produces highly purified and high concentrations of formic acid. Formic acid produced by traditional carbon dioxide devices needs costly and energy-intensive purification steps, Wang said. The direct production of pure formic acid solutions will […]
