In Belgium, the secretary general of the European Biodiesel Board, Raffaello Garofalo said that EU biodiesel producers are alleging that Argentina and Indonesia are dumping biodiesel into the EU, and are seeking emergency measures to curb biodiesel imports from those countries. “Prices of soybeans, the raw material, are more expensive in Europe than biodiesel imported […]
In California, Stevia First reports that they have entered into an exclusive and worldwide intellectual property license with the Vineland Research and Innovation Centre of Ontario. The license covers compositions and methods for producing steviol and steviol glycosides through fermentation-based production methods. In addition to the license, Stevia First has entered into a separate consulting […]
In California, the heads of a two-year NASA project aimed at cultivating microalgae from wastewater, using floating photobioreactors have reported that “algal productivity in prototype floating photobioreactors using secondary wastewater effluent ranged from 4 to nearly 30 g biomass m2 per day,” while noting lipid levels of 5 to 30 percent and concluded that “Additional […]
In Texas, the National Algae Association said that “the DOE’s Aquatic Species Program has completely failed in any commercialization efforts. For years, they focused their research on algae raceway ponds and not on any of the more advanced growing, harvesting and extraction systems.” The group contended, in a statement released on the wires last week, […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, gained 0.40 percent to 60.99 as ethanol, advanced biofuels and enzymes all escalated. For the day, Ceres (CERE) surged 3.17 percent to $6.83, while Pacific Ehtnaol (PEIX) dropped 2.86 percent to $0.34. Among other equities, OriginOil (OOIL) jumped 11.24 percent to $0.99. Overall, advances […]
As we head into the Labor Day holiday and we look back on a big summer for biofuels development, there has been the Summer of Algae II underway for the past couple of weeks. There’s been the drought, and the policy fight over the Renewable Fuel Standard. But in many respects, its been a summer […]
By Robert Rapier Distillates are petroleum products that includes diesel, jet fuel, and fuel oil. Renewable distillates may be categorized as substitutes or drop-in replacements. The most common distillate substitute is biodiesel, and drop-in replacements can be produced via hydrotreating or gasification plus Fischer-Tropsch (FT) technology. Biodiesel is produced by reacting fats like vegetable oil […]
In California, OriginOil reported that its Japanese research partner has received government funding for an ambitious algae biofuels program to provide renewable fuels and help eliminate radioactive materials. Dr. Takaaki Maekawa, President of the Research Institute of Tsukuba Bio-tech (RITB), has confirmed receiving grant approval from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) to […]
In Washington, the Energy Information Administration reported that ethanol production averaged 34.39 million gallons daily. The 4-week average for ethanol production stood at an annualized rate of 12.57 billion gallons. Production appears to have stabilized around 820,000 b/d over the last month, with very little week-to-week variation seen in August. This stabilization comes after a […]
In California, researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s College of Engineering – Center for Environmental Research and Technology are working with the state of California to develop diesel formulations with higher levels of renewable biofuels. In the first major step of this effort, researchers at CE-CERT have evaluated the potential impacts of using biodiesel […]
