In India, K2 Ethanol has awarded ANDRITZ a contract to build integrated ethanol and animal-feed production plants in India. The project will include the country’s first ethanol plant powered by agro-residue, supporting India’s renewable energy goals and the sustainable use of agricultural residues. The greenfield project covers an ethanol distillery with a capacity of 150,000 […]
In Germany, scientists wondered how do you turn toxic waste into fuel? Ask the microbe. A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, together with a colleague from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, experimentally demonstrates the molecular tricks used by the gas-converting microbe Clostridium autoethanogenum to […]
In Egypt, the Egypt Independent newspaper reports the Prime Minister inaugurated the $4 million “Kemet for Integrated Industries” ethanol plant in Sokhna Industrial Zone of the Suez Canal Economic Zone last Sunday. The facility will use sugarcane and beet molasses feedstock to produce 2 million liters of ethanol per year. The ethanol, which will be […]
In Brazil, National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) approved financing of R$ 300 million to expand the corn plant of Neomille S.A. in Chapadão do Céu (GO). The supported investments will allow the unit to increase its capacity of ethanol production of corn to up to 527,000 m3 per crop, of DDGS (dry […]
In Indonesia, Tempo reports that the government plans to grow cassava on 1 million hectares of land around the country to use as feedstock for ethanol production that will in turn allow it to blend 10% ethanol into gasoline. In addition to the cassava acreage, another 400,000 hectares of sugarcane is expected to be grown […]
In Thailand, the Nation newspaper reports the government plans to start requiring 1% sustainable aviation fuel blending from next year which will ramp up to 8% over the following decade. By 2037, demand is expected to reach 675 million liters of SAF annually. With the road fleet transition to electric vehicles, domestic ethanol production is […]
In Brazil, CNN Brasil reports president of the Chamber of Deputies, Hugo Motta (Republicans-PB), defended at an event in the city of São Paulo, on Monday the increase in the mixture of ethanol in gasoline, to 35%. The percentage was recently raised to 30%. The mandatory percentage of anhydrous ethanol mixed with ordinary gasoline in […]
In India, the Financial Express newspaper reports grain-based ethanol production capacity is now far outweighing demand after the Oil Marketing Companies floated a tender for just 10.5 billion liters when 17.7 billion liters had been offered, of which just 4.7 billion liters came from sugarcane-based feedstock and the rest from grains. Grain-based ethanol producers are […]
In Washington, Brownfield Ag News reports Energy Information Administration data shows ethanol production jumped to 1.071 million barrels last week as the first of the corn harvest began rolling in, and most facilities completed their annual maintenance shutdowns. Stocks continued to fall to 22.72 million barrels, 44,000 barrels less than the week prior, despite the […]
In California, Aemetis, Inc. is advancing decarbonization at its 65 million gallon per year ethanol plant in Keyes, California with a $30 million energy efficiency upgrade with integration of a Mechanical Vapor Recompression (MVR) system. Praj Industries is supplying the advanced low-carbon solution and equipment that form the key components of this system. Project execution […]
