BP and DuPont’s JV Butamax, acquires Nesika Energy ethanol plant, heads for commercial-scale biobutanol In Delaware, the BP/DuPont joint venture Butamax has acquired the 10 million gallon annual capacity Nesika Energy ethanol facility in Scandia, Kansas. Butamax will now start the detailed engineering work to add bio-isobutanol capacity to the facility, while continuing to produce […]
The sudden, exciting and apparently material news arrived via press release last week that Edeniq has succeeded in knocking down two counts of the Aemetis lawsuit against it. It’s unusual to get press releases about lawsuits and cross-filings. Most companies avoid them like the plague — usually they come out at judgment time, not filing […]
In the EU, a new online tool which can track the use of bio-based raw materials in products has been launched as a pilot by project partners AkzoNobel, Advanced Biochemical (Thailand) Co., Ltd. (ABT) and EY. It will be the first ever tool to use e-certification to track bio-based content along the value chain. Many […]
In California, the Urban Air Initiative called the results of a new Coordinating Research Council emissions study one more example of the biased and flawed testing procedures used to penalize ethanol. The CRC’s match blending of test fuels fails to recognize how ethanol truly performs in real world fuels, the group said. And this inaccurate […]
In Washington, according to EIA data as analyzed by the , ethanol production averaged 1.054 million barrels per day (b/d)—or 44.27 million gallons daily. That is a 10,000 b/d increase from the week before and a seven-week high. The four-week average for ethanol production increased to 1.041 million b/d for an annualized rate of 15.96 […]
In Iowa, Quad County Corn Processors, Lallemand Biofuels & Distilled Spirits and Taurus Energy have established an industrial-scale trial for Taurus’ XyloFerm in the Cellerate process. After preliminary lab-scale trials of XyloFerm in the CellerateTM process and obtained GRAS status for the XyloFerm yeast strain Quad County Corn Processors, Lallemand Biofuels & Distilled Spirits and […]
In Tennessee, PHG Energy has been renamed Aries Clean Energy to reflect the evolution of the clean energy and sustainable waste disposal company. Eight patents have been granted to the company for innovations in the gasification field. Most of those already have been deployed successfully in projects for both industry and municipalities, cleanly converting a […]
In Germany, UFOP reports that the ratio of futures market quotations of rapeseed to wheat increased continually over the 2016/17 marketing year. The figure temporarily rose to 2.3. Paris futures market quotations of wheat and rapeseed from the new 2017 harvest show very different curves. Whereas wheat prices have been very stable at a low […]
In California, OriginClear signed a Master Research Agreement with Florida Atlantic University for further scientific research and validation projects pertaining to OriginClear’s technology, Electro Water Separation with Advanced Oxidation, when applied to landfill leachate treatment. When rain or ground water flows through municipal and industrial waste landfill, leachate drains from the landfill as “black water”. […]
In Kansas, ICM has achieved a 50% decrease in the electrical load requirement in its Selective Milling Technology, that allows ethanol plants to produce increases of up to 3% ethanol yield and up to 15% distiller’s oil recovery. SMT is a platform technology that frees more starch critical for enzyme conversion to sugar by selectively […]
