Chempolis’ multi-year quest to build cellulosic ethanol in India finds a happy landing. In India, €110 million joint venture cellulosic ethanol project of Chempolis Ltd and Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) is moving towards construction after getting approval from NRL’s board. The project is expected to come online by 2019. The when and where The bamboo-based […]
By Sam A. Rushing, president, Advanced Cryogenics, Ltd. BACKGROUND The long term sustainability of first generation ethanol facilities, through advanced biofuels plants, is realized by making money from all the by-products; and of course, CO2 is one of the leading components of this by-product list. There are many variables associated the feasibility of adding a […]
In Florida, ARA completed the delivery of over 150,000 gallons of 100% drop-in jet and diesel fuel to fulfill its DLA/US Navy certification fuel contract, two months ahead of schedule. For the first time ever, renewable jet and diesel fuels that meet petroleum fuel specifications without blending will be certified for use as 100% drop-in […]
In Washington, Bob Kozak, writing at advancedbiofuelsusa.info, said of the Flint, Michigan drinking water disaster that “the most hypocritical has been that of Democrats such as Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton heaping all the blame on Michigan Republicans while not saying one word about the deficiencies of the Environmental Protection Agency under the Obama Administration.” Kozak […]
In California, Edeniq has signed an agreement with Flint Hills Resources, a leading U.S. ethanol producer, to license Edeniq’s Pathway Technology for all of its ethanol plants. Flint Hills has been an investor in Edeniq since April 2012 and a customer since June 2012. Edeniq’s Pathway Technology integrates Edeniq’s Cellunator high shear equipment with cellulase […]
In California, Pacific Ethanol and Whitefox Technologies entered into a technology license and purchase agreement for an industrial scale membrane system that separates water from ethanol in the plant’s distillation system. Pacific Ethanol expects commercial operations using the new technology in the third quarter of 2016. Whitefox is a specialist-engineering firm that delivers innovative membrane […]
According to EIA data as analyzed by the Renewable Fuels Association, ethanol production averaged 969,000 barrels per day (b/d)—or 40.70 million gallons daily. That is up 10,000 b/d from the week before. The four-week average for ethanol production stood at 968,000 b/d for an annualized rate of 14.86 billion gallons. Stocks of ethanol stood at […]
In Denmark, Novozymes has formed itself into three divisions: Household Care & Technical Industries, Agriculture & Bioenergy and Food & Beverages. The aim of the organizational change is to enhance Novozymes’ ability to deliver more innovation to customers with more speed and commercial impact. Furthermore, Novozymes wishes to strengthen its technology and market leadership through […]
In California, researchers at the Joint BioEnergy Institute / Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed two novel biosynthesis pathways for five-carbon alcohol (isopentenol or 3-methyl-3-buten-1-ol) from mevalonate that reduce the energy demand and cost of earlier applications of the mevalonate pathway by using genetically engineered host cells, whose culturing stage can happen both in anaerobic […]
In Switzerland, Governments, industry and environmental groups meeting at the United Nations specialized agency, the International Civil Aviation Organization finalized the design of the first global certification standard for CO2 emissions from new aircraft. The agreement on a rigorous and challenging ICAO “CO2 Standard”, is the result of six years’ work by a task force […]
