In Canada, Renewable U Medicine Hat Inc. has informed CIELO that it has secured an agreement in principle to purchase 80 acres of land in Cypress County, Alberta, which is near Dunmore, approximately 3 kilometers southeast of Medicine Hat. Renewable U Medicine Hat has also advised CIELO that it has the funding in place to […]
In Sweden, ANDRITZ has recently started up the world’s first biomethanol plant using ANDRITZ’s self-developed A-Recovery+ concept at the Södra Cell Mönsterås pulp mill in southeastern Sweden. The plant has an annual production capacity of 6.3 million liters of biomethanol from forest biomass. The fossil-free biomethanol can be used for applications in the pulp mill […]
In the UK, there are a number of industries that are benefiting strongly from the corona crisis. The current high demand for disinfectants plays into the cards of chemical, pharmaceutical and biotech companies. It is precisely these companies that have seen an enormous sales boom in recent weeks. Due to the enormous demand, most of […]
In the UK, a coalition of 32 environmental organizations worldwide has sent a letter to the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, asking it to divest from Drax Plc, owner of the world’s largest wood-burning power station in the UK, and to clarify its position on biomass energy. BlackRock is Drax’s joint third largest shareholder, holding […]
In Finland, Gasum has entered into an agreement with the cleantech company Forchem Oy on the supply of liquefied biogas (LBG) for the Forchem tall oil biorefinery in Rauma, Finland. Forchem switched to using liquefied natural gas (LNG) in 2019. The liquefied biogas (LBG) is received at the Forchem reception terminal, vaporized and used in […]
In Sweden, Alfa Laval has won an order from the energy company St1 for a process line to be installed in a new biorefinery in Sweden. The order has a value of approximately $5.9 million and is booked in the Food Systems unit of the Food & Water Division. Deliveries are scheduled for 2021. The […]
In Wisconsin, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently developed a pathway with the potential to convert biomass, like wood chips or grasses, into a widely used industrial solvent and aim to expand this work to produce an array of sustainable chemicals. The researchers developed chemical processes that convert lignocellulosic biomass, essentially dried plant matter, […]
In India, the Daily Pioneer newspaper reports that the Chhattisgarh state cabinet has approved proposals for public private partnership model ethanol plants to be set up at cooperative sugar mills in Kawardha, Pandaria, Balod and Ambikapur. The Indian government has been providing soft loans and other support to try to encourage sugar mills to introduce […]
From San Francisco and Boston — peeking out from their shelters in place — news arrived Zymergen has acquired EnEvolv at the customary price of “terms were not disclosed”. There are a couple of streams to note here, within this storyline. The technical storyline. As the always quotable Kiwi Collin South puts it: “This partnership […]
While things are topsy turvy around the world right now, Part 1 to this visual National Biodiesel Board slide guide takes us on an industry overview, the diesel vehicle market forecast, the U.S. biodiesel and renewable diesel market (and yes, they are different!), a look at biodiesel and the RFS, production capacity and infrastructure, future feedstock […]
