In Washington, the USDA has changed a category in the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates from “ethanol for fuel” to “ethanol and byproducts,” with an explanation that corn sent to biorefineries is used to produce ethanol, distillers grains, corn gluten feed, corn gluten meal and corn oil. The report did not mention that the […]
A new generation of technologists aim high in value, low in cost, as the race for sugars to process into biofuels amps up a notch or three “You know, we hear numbers like this,” said Daphne Preuss, the CEO of Chromatin, “70 million new acres of cultivation by 2030 to meet all our expected global […]
In Texas, KBR announced it has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction by KiOR build a first-of-its-kind biomass-to-renewable crude facility to be located in Columbus, Miss. The facility is designed to process approximately 500 tons per day of wood biomass and produce over 11 million gallons of fuel per year. KBR will provide engineering […]
In California, AE Biofuels reports that their wholly-owned subsidiary AE Advanced Fuels Keyes has been awarded a $1.88 million matching grant from the California Energy Commission to accelerate the commercial implementation of its patent-pending, enzyme based, cellulosic ethanol production technology. The integrated cellulose/starch pre-development facility will be located near the 55 million gallon per year […]
In New Jersey, Primus Green Energy is reporting that it has developed a technique to turn agricultural biomass into 93 octane gasoline for both industry and vehicles. Primus President, Dr. Yom-Tov Samia, states, “Primus GE can produce 2,000 gallons of biofuel at its pilot facility.” Primus is the U.S. based subsidiary of Israel Corporation’s IC […]
In Canada, Lignol reports that they have completed an engineering design package for a commercial-scale biorefinery that would produce approximately 20 million US gallons and 55,000 tonnes of High Performance Lignin (HP-LTM lignin) derivatives annually. The design package was developed with Lignol’s engineering contractor, Pöyry, an engineering and management consulting in the energy and industrial […]
In Canada, CR Fuels Atlantic, sister company of CR Fuels in Strathmore, Alberta, is investigating the possibility of establishing either an ethanol or biodiesel facility in Nova Scotia. In an interview the Chronicle Herald, Gordon Hart, CR Fuels president stated, “We’re really looking at (whether there is) a business case for ethanol first because we […]
In Ireland, at the National Bioenergy Conference attendees were told that four biodiesel plants capable of producing 60 million liters annually were being mothballed due to cheap imports from outside the EU. Barry Caslin, Teagasc bioenergy specialist, told attendees that four plant-oil plants build without government grants or subsidies had been pushed out of production […]
PCNEnvironment: IEA Report Proposes Steps for Sustainable Global Biofuels Expansion – Climate Change Policy & Practice @SustainableNet: Government to probe oil price hikes – Sun.Star @exxonmobil: We’re making good progress in our research aimed at developing next-generation biofuels from photosynthetic algae SustainableNet: Vilsack: Redirect ethanol subsidies – Minneapolis Star Tribune Brad_newsPRos: Up to $24 million […]
In Washington, the five biofuels trade groups that agreed on a “don’t mess with the RFS” through 2013 unified policy at the Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference this week have been asked to join a conference call this week led by USDA Under Secretary Dallas Tonsager. The call was arranged in part by USDA Senior Policy […]
