In Texas, DTN reports that President Trump spoke at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s annual meeting last Sunday, praising his administration for upholding his promises to push through year-round E15. DTN reported him as saying, “We’re providing more support for ethanol than ever before.” He pointed out that farm and ranch income has gone up […]
Fuel enhancement, cathode benefits, efficient synthesis process – those are all things we want, right? Sylvatex’s CEO Virginia Irwin Klausmeier gave this illuminating presentation at ABLC NEXT in San Francscio that covers how Sylvatex is working on this with their nanoparticle chemistry platform, the plant-based MicroX blending that enables global scale-up and flexible production, how […]
There’s a lot of flat, dry land in the U.S. but researchers at Arizona State University and others are looking at how that land could support biofuel production. How about evaporation-resistant reactors coupled with thermotolerant, high-productivity mixotrophic algae? Check out this Slide-Guide from P.I. Peter Lammers from Arizona State University’s BETO Project Peer Review to get […]
In Switzerland, a global coalition focused on business aviation sustainability welcomed two new carbon-reduction initiatives for Davos-bound flights at this year’s World Economic Forum (WEF), starting Jan. 21,2020, in Davos, Switzerland. The Business Aviation Coalition for Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF Coalition), in conjunction with the World Economic Forum and Zurich Airport, has secured agreements to […]
In Argentina, the Nación newspaper reports that biodiesel producers are at an impasse with the government following the freeze on biodiesel prices but continued increases for soy oil, making biodiesel production inviable. As a result, they are not supplying biodiesel to oil companies for blending and the fuel sold at the pump does not include […]
In Washington, DTN reports that Energy Information Administration data shows that ethanol production in the week to January 10 has inched back towards the all-time high reached two years ago at 1.095 million bpd, up 3% from the week prior. Stocks also rose to a 15-week high of 23.006 million barrels, up more than half […]
In Tennessee, Harvestone Group announced another ethanol production facility making the transition to its marketing, logistics and trading platform. CORN LP, a 75-million-gallon ethanol plant in Goldfield, IA transitioned onto the Harvestone platform as of January 1. The Group also transitioned DENCO II, a 36-million-gallon ethanol plant located in Morris, MN in July of 2019. […]
In Florida, U.S. Water Services, Inc. and CTE Global, Inc. have entered into a settlement agreement resolving their litigation involving U.S. Waters patents relating to the use of phytase to control mineral deposits in fuel ethanol plants. The terms of the settlement are confidential. The United States Patent Office issued U.S. Patent Nos. 8,415,137 and […]
In Ireland, Grant Engineering announced it has developed new hybrid technology called EVOLINK, the first of its kind in hybrid technology and enables the smart integration of heat pumps to a property by combining with existing technology in a home whether oil, gas or biomass. EVOLINK uses intelligent software and complex algorithms to optimize the […]
In Spain, BIOGEARS is a new innovative project funded by the European Union under the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund that is set to develop biobased gear solutions for the creation of an eco-friendly offshore aquaculture sector using a multitrophic approach and new biobased value chains. The current use of biobased plastic (produced from biomass […]
