Some companies never have news. Some companies seem to always have news. And in the past week, BASF falls into the latter category with 6 new press releases on their global site in a matter of 5 days – and that doesn’t include other press releases on their country-specific sites. Ok, but is it interesting […]
In Denmark, NORDEN signed up to become a member of the Getting to Zero Coalition. Alongside a continued focus on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, NORDEN recently created a dedicated decarbonization unit and continues to test the use of biofuel. “We wish to increase the awareness of the need to develop real alternatives that can […]
In Finland, the production of biofuel by gasification of biomass residues was successfully validated in the EU’s COMSYN project. The process performance was verified with bark in an 80 hour-long test run at VTT. The syngas conversion to Fischer-Tropsch (FT) products was conducted by IneraTec GmbH. The main focus of the test was to study […]
In India, Reuters reports that crude palm oil prices in Europe could rise to average $610 per ton in the first half of 2020 thanks to rising demand and slowing production growth. Industry analyst Thomas Mielke told Reuters that the “Price rise is expected due to a slow down in global production growth, rise in […]
In Washington, D.C., according to EIA data analyzed by the Renewable Fuels Association for the week ending Sept. 20, ethanol production swung sharply lower, dropping 61,000 b/d or 6.1% (the second-largest weekly downturn since statistics have been reported) to 943,000 barrels per day (b/d)—equivalent to 39.61 million gallons daily. This represents the smallest production rate […]
In Minnesota, the Minnesota Department of Transportation released Pathways to Decarbonizing Transportation in Minnesota, a new report that aims to get Minnesota on track to meet future goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in accordance with the 2007 Next Generation Energy Act. Bolstering biofuels is part of the report, as is electric vehicles and other […]
In Germany, UFOP reports that the small EU rapeseed crop and firm forward prices drove up producer prices for rapeseed considerably. Also, feedstock demand from oil mills picked up over the past weeks. At the beginning of the 2019/20 marketing year, farm rapeseed prices climbed sharply. The rise was due to the small rapeseed harvest […]
In Washington, D.C., in a letter sent to the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Renewable Fuels Association noted several misstatements in testimony offered recently to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology and provided background information to help the Agency better understand the real impacts of small refinery exemptions (SREs). “In […]
In Germany, scientists at the Ruhr University Bochum and the University of New South Wales in Australia converted carbon dioxide into raw materials using nanoparticles. They looked at the principle for this from enzymes that produce complex molecules in many-step reactions. The team transferred this mechanism to metallic nanoparticles, also called nanozymes. For example, chemists […]
Synthetic biology. It sounds like something from a sci-fi movie, or an oxymoron like jumbo shrimp or clearly confused. After all, biology is the study of living organisms. And synthetic means made by chemical synthesis, especially to imitate a natural product. But synthetic biology has real potential to replace costly or unsustainable manufacturing processes and […]
