In Malaysia, Dagang News reports Citaglobal Bhd sealed a joint development framework agreement (JDFA) with SUS Holding Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Shanghai parent company SUS Environment Co Ltd (SUS Environment), the largest solid waste incinerator supplier in China. With this JDFA, the two parties will collaborate on waste to energy (WtE) projects in […]
In Qatar, Zawya reported that a Qatar University (QU) research team have pioneered a sustainable method for the preparation of innovative nanomaterial, graphene quantum dots (GQDs) from date palm leaf waste. This project, which started in January 2022, uses water as a solvent, achieving a virtually chemical-free synthesis of GQDs and spotlighting a notable advancement […]
In Malaysia, Reuters reported that Malaysia’s palm oil board and state oil company Petronas have signed an agreement with the aim of studying the use of used cooking oil and palm oil waste as sustainable aviation fuel. The two entities signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on August 14 to explore the potential of palm-based […]
In Malaysia, OFI reports that the national palm oil council wants the European Union to include palm wastes and residues in its list of approved waste feedstocks for biofuel production. The use of palm oil as biofuel feedstock is highly controversial in Europe and is being phased out, which Malaysia and Indonesia continue to fight […]
In Spain, researchers from the Universitat Politècnica de València have created a biodegradable material from palm tree waste that has comparable properties to carbon fiber. Dubbed Fiberpalm, the innovation is the brainchild of mechanical engineering students Manel Cabanes, Álvaro Gallego and Mario Salido; business administration and management majors Ángeles Vendrell and Ariadna Sánchez, and chemical […]
In the Ivory Coast, France’s EDF, Meridiam and Biokala, through their joint venture BIOVEA Energie, have awarded TSK a new project in Ivory Coast. This time it is a 46 MW biomass plant located in Aboisso, 100 km east of Abidjan, which will be the largest plant in West Africa fueled by waste from palm […]
In Japan, Green Earth Institute plans to start producing high value chemicals— alanine and valine—from oil palm waste using its technology in a Malaysian trial by 2022 with hopes of partnering with companies such as Sime Darby. Empty fruit bunches will be used but also palm trunks. GEI, started in 2011 with funds from the […]
In Switzerland, researchers from EPFL show agricultural residues from Brazilian oil palm plantations, can be used to produce bioethanol and two additional end products: furfural, a much-used industrial compound, and lignin, a solid fuel that can be used in the biorefinery. For this particular study, they characterized the composition of the empty fruit bunches and […]
In Malaysia, the Borneo Post reports that University of Malaysia Sabah researchers were able to convert oil palm fibre empty fruit bunches into biofertiliser. The article identified the researchers as Dr. Md Shafiquzzaman Siddiquee, and Nur Shafawati Saili, his postgraduate student, as having used Trichoderma to turn the biomass into biofertiliser inside of 40 days, […]
In Malaysia, Graphene NanoChem has added Petron Fuel International as a customer. The first delivery of PlatAmber, the group’s palm waste based biofuel for the Malaysian market began last week.
