In Romania, OMV Petrom, the largest energy company in Southeastern Europe, invested approximately $24.8 million (EUR 21 million) at Petrobrazi refinery in order to increase the bio-blending capacity and improve infrastructure for the transport, unloading and storage of bio-components within the refinery. OMV Petrom supplies fuels with a volumetric bio-content of 6.5% in diesel and […]
In the United Kingdom, Nova Pangaea Technologies successfully developed and trialed its first E10 fuel on a motorcycle at its headquarters in Redcar, UK. The trial featured Nova Pangaea’s process, REFNOVA, which converts 2nd generation non-food feedstocks such as woody and agricultural residues into valuable products for biofuels, biochemicals and biopolymers. The fuel was produced […]
In Colorado, Reuters reports that U.S. ethanol production has been unusually light ever since March, when the coronavirus pandemic sharply curbed global fuel consumption and that the resurgence of the virus and increasing restrictions, especially just before the holidays, threaten to derail a comeback in fuel demand. “Ethanol output in recent weeks has very slowly […]
In Switzerland, a new report from the World Economic Forum, “Clean Skies for Tomorrow: Sustainable Aviation Fuels as a Pathway to Net-Zero Aviation,” demonstrates the feasibility, scalability and potential cost of different technological pathways for sustainable aviation fuel production. It finds that sufficient sustainable feedstocks are available to meet the projected jet fuel demand for […]
In Washington, D.C., Chemical & Engineering News reports that because the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines need to be kept at super cold temperatures best done with dry ice, which is made by compressing and cooling liquid CO2 often captured from ethanol and ammonia production, it can impact the vaccine rollout. “The ethanol industry is […]
In the United Kingdom, Terravesta reports that Jonathan Scurlock, chief adviser, renewable energy and climate change for the National Farmers Union, believes Miscanthus can contribute significantly to UK net zero targets and be a feedstock supply for bioenergy, biobased materials, biofuels. “The NFU expects growth in land use for perennial energy crops like Miscanthus to […]
In the United Kingdom, Livingston Group at Imperial College London in collaboration with bp developed a membrane-based extraction system which uses less than 25 percent of the energy of current processes and produces ten times more biofuel with over 99.5 percent purity. In their labs at Imperial, researchers investigated the performance of several thin-film composite […]
In Germany, Argus Media reports that the planned introduction of multipliers for electricity and hydrogen in a draft law for the use of renewables in transport published by the German environment ministry (BMU) will remove first generation biofuels from the market by 2025. The German government outlined its plans to toughen the country’s biofuels legislation […]
Cucumber peels converted into cellulose nanocrystals with potential to be used in food packaging, bamboo and sugar waste tableware that biodegrades in 60 days, a new pen design with edible ink and compostable materials, coaxing crops to create animal proteins – these are just some of the crazy yet not-so-crazy innovations this week. Here are […]
In Kentucky, Hemisphere Limited, the parent company of Continental Refining Company (CRC), is exploring plans to invest an additional $25 million to acquire, relocate and install a soybean crushing, biodiesel refining and blending facility at the current CRC oil refinery in Somerset, Kentucky. The ability to produce biofuels and soy-based products in Somerset would open […]
