In Brazil, Canal Rural reports JBS announced it began construction of its new biodiesel plant last week, located in the municipality of Mafra, Santa Catarina. The plant will be operated by JBS Biodiesel, a division of JBS Novos Negócios, with an investment of $34.4 million through Seara Alimentos. The new facility, which should take about […]
In Massachusetts, MIT chemical engineers are working to develop a smaller-scale alternative, which they envision could be used to locally produce fertilizer for farmers in remote, rural areas, such as sub-Saharan Africa. Fertilizer is often hard to obtain in such areas because of the cost of transporting it from large manufacturing facilities. In a step […]
In Washington, Brownfield Ag News reports that the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency said in an interview that he doesn’t know how many requests for small refinery exemptions have been filed but believes that applications for “gap” SREs should be treated like any other request. The Department of Energy is currently reviewing the applications, […]
Let’s be honest, it hasn’t been a banner year for the popularity of microbes, now that a coronavirus has knocked major league baseball out of the ballparks. That’s a microbe, one hundred million times smaller than you are, recording over 100,000 strikeouts, if you consider that Major League Baseball is looking now at a 48-game […]
Ways2H shows us a third pathway towards energy decarbonization via waste to hydrogen. Check out this illuminating slide guide that looks at the need for hydrogen, renewable hydrogen production pathways, how biomass including municipal solid waste can be a third pathway to hydrogen, and more.
ATCO built and is currently operating a 0.25 MW (65 kg per day) hydrogen production facility in Jandakot, Western Australia. Hydrogen produced at the Clean Energy Innovation Hub is used for blending, direct fuel testing and to power a fuel cell for residential energy back up power. ATCO’s had quite the clean energy journey too, and […]
In Finland, SSAB Raahe’s steel plant is testing biogas from Gasum as a maritime transport fuel. The test will be carried out in collaboration with ESL Shipping and Gasum. This is the first time that biogas will be used as fuel for ships in Finland. SSAB, ESL Shipping and Gasum are working together to reduce […]
In Colombia, Manuelita Aceites y Energía, a subsidiary of Manuelita, started exporting palm oil-based biodiesel to Europe. Manuelita has the RSPO (Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil) certifications for palm oil and the ISCC (International Sustainability and Carbon Certification) for biofuels, which guarantee compliance with international standards for social and environmental sustainability, including the directive on […]
In Georgia, Platts reports that Flint Hills has decided to permanently shutter its ethanol facility in Camilla after it failed to find a new buyer. The facility, which Flint Hills bought in 2014, has been mothballed since May due to low and negative ethanol crushing margins. It has an installed production capacity of 120 million […]
In Brazil, Reuters reports that the first Cbios deal was completed last week when Datagro purchased 100 of them at about $9.70 each from Adecoagro. Sucden was the broker while the purchase was financed by Santander. The credits are meant to offset the carbon emissions of Datagro’s future in-person events. The government hopes to see […]
