In Canada, a public fight —via letters published on the City of Oshawa’s website—has broken out between the City and the Oshawa Harbour Commission regarding a proposed ethanol plant. The City has been vehemently against the project, even before the environmental assessments were completed, according to the Harbour Commission. Since the City started its campaign […]
In Spain, the European-funded project Equimotor Plus has developed a new engine designed to run specifically on biofuels that skirts around the issues of corrosion when excess water gets into current fuel tanks. The project, led by Tekniker-IK4 with researchers from Spain, the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany and the United Kingdom. The motor isn’t actually […]
In Belgium, the European Biodiesel Board has slammed the way the European Commission is tackling the Indirect Land Use Change debate by focusing solely on the study by US-based International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), which the EBB says has been researched using a flawed methodology. The EBB says the study fails to take into […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, recovered 4.82 percent to 73.96, 25 percent ahead of the recovery rate of the Dow Jones Industrials, as global equities jumped following Black Monday. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) gained 5.40 percent to $27.21, while Syntroleum (SYNM) soared 25.00 percent to $1.30 […]
Jatropha 1.0: game over, Jatropha 2.0: Game on — SG Biofuels, Bharat Petroleum hook up for makeover of Indian jatropha In India, SG Biofuels and Bharat Renewable Energy, a unit of India’s second largest oil company, Bharat Petroleum, signed a landmark commercial agreement to develop and deploy elite hybrids of Jatropha across a total 86,000 […]
In California, Solazyme and Bunge announced the formation of a joint venture focused on the production of triglyceride oils in Brazil. The JV anticipates building a 100,000 MT renewable oil production facility located at a Bunge owned sugar cane mill in Brazil. Engineering for the plant will begin immediately and will be funded by both […]
In Oklahoma, Syntroleum announced that Dynamic Fuels, its 50/50 joint venture with Tyson Foods achieved record production of 5.4 million gallons of renewable fuels in July, which implies an annual run rate of 65 million gallons per year, or 87 percent of planned 75 million gallon capacity for the Geisma, Louisiana facility. Overall, Syntroleum reported […]
In North Carolina, Detroit-based Disposal and Recycling Technologies Inc. will bring its conversion technology for waste alcohol into ethanol to a new facility in Charlotte. The process turns alcohol and sugar-based beverages such as old beer, wine, soda, juice and liquor into fuel grade ethanol.
In California, OriginOil has developed Operation Green Stick, its network of sensors that will simplify a commercial scale algae biofuel operation by combining algae production with the extraction process. The system monitors the algae growth as well as the dewatering and extraction in seamless real time that the company says makes the whole process more […]
In Minnesota, Cortex has announced the commercial availability of EcoOcean, a new bioplastic that offers flexibility and strength; commercial and low-temperature backyard compostability, 77% annually renewable raw material content, anaerobic and marine biodegradability. Moris Miksic, Cortex CEO, states, “EcoOcean will revolutionize the use of flexible packaging, especially in coastal areas of the world.”
