In Nebraska, DTN reports ethanol margins continue to increase as ethanol production remains subdued and stocks are drawn down as blending demand picks up. DTN’s mock ethanol plant saw margins pick up by 4 cents per gallon to 9.4 cents over the past month, while ethanol plants that don’t carry debt would see a 41 […]
In Brazil, Reuters reports President Bolsonaro is stuck between a rock and a hard place on the issue of US ethanol imports, or the sugarcane industry represented by UNICA and his buddy the president of the US. The US ethanol industry wants more access to the Brazilian ethanol market while the Brazilian cane industry wants […]
In California, optimize catalyst performance, a team of scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and collaborators has developed a detailed understanding of the effect of pretreatment-induced nanoscale structural and compositional changes on catalyst activity and long-term stability. The research could make the production of the important industrial feedstock chemical acetaldehyde more efficient. Improvements in […]
In Washington, Politico reports President Trump is expected to wait until after election day before taking any further decisions on the policy fight between oil states and farm states over the Renewable Fuel Standard. With a November due date for next year’s RVO, the Environmental Protection Agency is expected to wait until the last minute […]
A new technology has arrived in South Florida for the conversion of biogas to diesel fuels. If you thought of this as a biogas-to-paraffins technology, that would be fine, too. But it’s not strictly a methane-to-paraffins technology, because this technology from T2C also utilizes the CO2 stream found in biogas. The biggest problem, in terms […]
The $850 million California Ethanol + Power project has been years in the making – no wonder, there’s ultra low-carbon fuels, sugarcane and biomass-to-power in the complex value mix. Now, the California Green Rush is on, and the project’s developers believe that 2020 is the year that all the financial pieces come together. Why this project, […]
In Germany, in an interdisciplinary study by the Universities of Göttingen, Hohenheim and Indonesian partner universities, examines the environmental, social and economic consequences of land-use transitions in a tropical smallholder landscape on Sumatra, Indonesia and the economic-ecological conflicting goals of developments for the oil palm landscapes. Land-use transitions can enhance the livelihoods of smallholder farmers […]
In Washington, D.C., Reuters reports that a federal appeals court on Friday denied a challenge by leading ethanol maker POET Biorefining, LLC who accused the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of making it impossible to certify its corn-fiber-derived ethanol under a renewable-fuel program. A split three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. […]
In Denmark, Alfa Laval, Hafnia, Haldor Topsoe, Vestas, and Siemens Gamesa issued a report “Ammonfuel – an industrial view of ammonia as a marine fuel” providing a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the applicability, scalability, cost, and sustainability of ammonia as a marine fuel. The report describes ammonia as an attractive and low risk choice […]
In Germany, UFOP reports that the restrictions in the wake of the corona crisis generated pressure on rapeseed and soybean prices in the first quarter of the calendar year of 2020. However, prices have firmed since then. Starting at the beginning of the 2019/20 crop year, both rapeseed prices in Paris and soybean prices in […]
