In Zimbabwe, ZimEye reports that following the restart of ethanol production at Green Fuel, ethanol blending will return to the mandated 20%. When ethanol supplies were scarce due to rains keeping sugarcane from being harvested, the blending rate temporarily went down to 10%. The mandate has been revised down as low as 5% due to […]
In Iowa, Iowa Department of Natural Resources environmental specialists responded to a wastewater discharge to surface water originating from ethanol and lysine production. A leak from a force main carrying mixed wastewater from both the Cargill Ethanol plant and the CJ Bio America Lysine production plant to the city’s wastewater treatment plant entered a surface […]
In Norway, on the UN’s World Oceans Day, Equinor is launching its ambitions for reducing own emissions from ships and how the company will contribute to decarbonizing shipping. Equinor has set the following ambition for its maritime activity: • By 2030: Halving maritime emissions in Norway compared to 2005 emissions. • By 2050: Halving global […]
In Virginia, Governor Ralph Northam announced that Braven Environmental, a leader in deriving fuel from landfill-bound plastic, will invest $31.7 million to establish a manufacturing operation in Cumberland County’s shell building. Virginia successfully competed with North Carolina and South Carolina for the project, which will create 52 new jobs. This is the first economic development […]
In France, Saipol, the main subsidiary of Groupe Avril, Europe’s largest producer of biodiesel, has received the first Nuseed Carinata grain shipment at its processing facility in Rouen, France. Grown as a scalable cover crop in Argentina, it will be processed into a renewable fuel with best in class greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction. This follows […]
In Washington, the Global CCS Institute, an international think tank, has added 10 carbon capture and storage (CCS) facilities to its global database, bringing the total number of CCS facilities in various stages of development to 59 with a capture capacity of more than 127 million tons per annum (mtpa). There are now 21 facilities in operation, three under construction, and 35 in various stages of development. In the UK, […]
In China, inspired by the yolk-shell structure of eggs and the structural ordering of cell surfaces in the evolution, researchers proposed highly stable single cyanobacterium capsules with an ordered yolk-shell structure of uniformly organized and tunable nanoporosity shaped by protein-assisted, hydrophilic colloidal silica packing. The void between the ordered nanoporous shell and cell is created […]
In Brazil, Reuters reports that the national energy council CNPE finally approved direct sales of hydrous ethanol from mills to gas station owners last Thursday. The policy shift which has been under consideration for a year is expected to make ethanol more competitive against gasoline, boosting demand in turn. In an unrelated move, the BNDES […]
COVID-19 has made us think about resilience, because some days it’s hard to get milk from the store, or get to the store, or hold a job to pay the bill at the store. Our economic system, to lean on the story of the Three Little Pigs, is looking these days like a house built […]
How will we develop hydrogen for industrial and transport objectives? That is the question The Digest’s Jim Lane looks at in this visual slide guide highlighting the demand potential, background on renewable gases and renewable hydrogen, drivers behind it, state of play, major players, and more. So what are the Top 10 hydrogen projects right now? Some […]
