In Alabama, Green Plains Renewable Energy announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, BlendStar, will build, own and operate a new ethanol unit train terminal in Birmingham, on the BNSF Railway. The new terminal will have 160,000 barrels of storage, and will receive full 96-car unit trains of ethanol, which can be offloaded within 24 hours. The […]
In Kansas, the Kansas Alliance for BioRefining and BioEnergy (KABB) is working on a project to bring down the cost of collecting, storing, and hauling crop stubble. The project is funded a $4.8m grant from the federal stimulus package that was originally intended for a weatherization project which failed to materialize in time. The group […]
In Mexico, Honeywell Green Jet Fuel, produced using process technology from Honeywell’s UOP, is powering Aeroméxico’s Mexico City to San José, Costa Rica route, marking one of the first uses of renewable fuels in everyday airplane passenger service. Aeroméxico has begun use of Green Jet Fuel made by Honeywell’s UOP on its regular Mexico City […]
In Egypt, Sugar and Integrated Industries company will be opening a sugar-based jet fuel plant in 2012. The plant, which will be constructed near the company’s already functional sugar factory, will provide up to 700 jobs and claims to have a capital potential of up to $200m USD.
In Malaysia, Mission NewEnergy is drawing up plans for a waste material processing facility which will draw on palm oil recovered from waste material in the palm oil refining process. The plant, which has received all the necessary government sanctions, is expected to be fully operational at 66,000 tons/year by September of 2012.
In Thailand, Universal Adsorbents and Chemicals (UAC) will invest almost $10m in a variety of alternative energy processes including petroleum gasification. The company hopes to develop renewable chemicals for butter production and fat acids after receiving a letter of intent from a foreign company with the intent of negotiating the construction of a separate plant.
In Canada, the Global Renewable Fuels Alliance writes: “Today’s release of the IEA’s annual World Energy Outlook in London has again confirmed the end of cheap oil blaming growing energy demand and declining oil reserves. According the Report, oil demand will rise 14% between 2010 and 2035, from 87 million barrels per day (mb/d) in […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, gained 1.73 percent to 74.81 as markets global equities advanced. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) jumped 2.80 percent to $29.69, while Pacific Ethanol (PEIX) soared 24.29 percent to $0.87. Among other equities, Novozymes (NZMB.F) recovered 4.24 percent to $153.50. Overall, advances led […]
In Michigan, Michigan State University researchers have found a new gene, that may lead to improvements in crops through either genetic manipulation or breeding, especially as related genes are present in soybeans, corn, wheat and other crops. The gene, referred to as CLMP1, helps explain how chloroplast divides in cells, its dispersal and the avoidance […]
As POET lands a record biomass harvest in prep for a 2013 cellulosic ethanol launch, the Digest looks at stover, jatropha, miscanthus, switchgrass, MSW, wood and animal residue. Are costs going down, and capacity going up fast enough? In Iowa, as part of the 2011 harvest, word has arrived from POET, that farmers around Emmetsburg, […]
