In Tennessee, Stephen Pennycook of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been elected to the class of 2011 fellows of the Materials Research Society. In South Dakota, POET named three new plant managers. Ken Osmonson is the new GM at POET Biorefining – Ashton, Gary Eischied takes charge at POET Biorefining – […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, leaped 2.13 percent to a 33-month high of 94.14 as Novozymes and Gevo led a big equities rally. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) was up 1.31 percent to $36.48, while Novozymes (NZMB) soared 6.47 percent to $158.92. Among other equities, Gevo gained […]
In Iowa, Cargill has bought Tate & Lyle’s corn wet mill ethanol plant in Fort Dodge. The plant, which was never completed by Tate & Lyle after a construction halt on the $260 million project, has a capacity of 115 MGy of ethanol, grinding 150,000 bushels of corn per day. It will increase Cargill’s overall […]
Will changing economics, yields make sugarbeets a rival to sugarcane for the attention of the hottest companies in biofuels? Sometimes the passenger traffic from the advanced biofuels industry in the US to Brazil gets so heavy that it seems like Brazilian airlines like TAM and Gol will be the primary beneficiaries of the biofuels revolution. […]
In New York and China, American Jianye Greentech Holdings, reports they have completed the conceptual design of the Company’s Suihua Waste-to-fuel Plant in Harbin. The company also announced the appointment of GeneSyst International as project manager to oversee construction and operation of the company’s new facility. Greentech states that they expect the plant to be […]
In New York, R3 Fusion has delivered its first commercial system for recovering ethanol from waste scrubber water – the SPaCeRTM. Utilizing principles of process intensification, the system is designed to process fifty gallons per minute of scrubber water generated from a 50 MGy ethanol plant. The modular system will be fully operational in April […]
In Switzerland, Biopetrol Industries reported that the company has suffered a net loss of KEUR 73,009 for 2010 amid continuing overcapacity in the European biodiesel market. As a result, Biopetrol has informed the Works Council at its plant in Schwarzheide, eastern Germany, that the company intends to end production at that plant in June. The […]
In Zambia, Thomson Sinkala, chairperson of the Biofuels Association of Zambia, stated in an interview that BAZ plans to increase public awareness activities to get out more information to the public. Sinkala stated that BAZ would continue to talk with the Government on the need to announce blending ratios. Sinkala explained that one hectare of […]
AGESGroup: 93 bn ltrs biofuels produced worldwide in 2009 displaced the equivalent of an est 68 bn ltrs of fuel, equal to about 5% of world fuel prod. topHotCat: Biofuels and Combustion Engine Research Needed | Renewable Energy … SAGEEngineering: Improving photosynthesis could be key to better biofuels, according to Glasgow researchers. CO2ERace: Cracking open […]
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