In Ohio, The Andersons Marathon Ethanol announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Continental Carbonic Products, Inc. for the supply of carbon dioxide from the TAME plant in Greenville, Ohio. The agreement provides Continental Carbonic a critical input to build a new 50,000-square-foot dry ice manufacturing facility. The Greenville Dry Ice Plant […]
In Britain, British Sugar and Air Liquide have today announced their partnership in a new carbon dioxide recovery and liquefaction plant at British Sugar’s Wissington factory, scheduled for commissioning in the summer of 2011. The plant will be able to recover up to 70,000 tonnes (77,000 tons) of carbon dioxide per year from natural fermentation […]
In the Philippines, Itochu announced that it will invest $120 million in an integrated sugarcane ethanol and power project in San Mariano, Isabela, which will cover 11,000 hectares and produce up to 14 Mgy of ethanol and 19 MW of green power, of which 13 MW will be supplied to the national grid. Ther project […]
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In Washington, the US Department of Agriculture dramatically lowered its corn harvest projection from 13.11 billion bushels to 12.664 billion bushels, which touched off a rally in ethanol prices to $2.184 per gallon on the CBOT for November deliveries (and reaching $2.31 in the New York cash market). The report is likely to substantially rally […]
In Switzerland, the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels is considering policy alternatives in markets where ethanol blenders may have trouble sourcing a blend of fuels that meet the 50 percent reduction in GHGs (compared to fossil fuels) that is proposed as Criterion 3c of RSB principles. Under proposed RSB rules, producers may qualify under RSB so […]
Conventional wisdom holds that first-generation ethanol is dead as a door-nail in terms of attracting viable investment, but events in recent months suggest that the conventional wisdom is off by some margin. The Sacramento Business Journal reported yesterday that “shares of Pacific Ethanol Inc. climbed 3 percent in trading Thursday, after the ethanol-producer… raised $53.5 […]
In Taiwan, Sunho Biodiesel has developed what it terms a complete enzymatic process for biodiesel production lower than the cost of producing diesel. According to Sunho’s researchers, their process eliminates the need for pre-treatment, and operates at room temperature and pressure, and produces a high-value, pharma-grade technical glycerine. Total process time is said to be […]
In California, Solazyme has signed its third development agreement with Ecopetrol (EC), the largest company in Colombia, to analyze manufacturing viability of algae-based diesel fuel using renewable Colombian feedstocks such as sugarcane and byproduct glycerol. Ecopetrol has a strategic goal to provide at least 450 million tons of fuel from renewable oil sources by 2015. After […]
In California, a demonstration plant has begun operation at the Oceanside Wastewater Treatment Plant in San Francisco, that creates biodiesel fuel from restaurant trap grease. The demonstration treatment plant will process 10,000 gallons per day of trap waste, recovering 300-500 gallons a day of brown grease and converting it to biodiesel. The program is an […]
