In North Carolina, VISION Bioenergy Oilseeds (VISION), and Makhteshim Agan of North America Inc. (ADAMA), a global leader in crop protection technology, announced they have entered into a Joint Development Agreement to bring to market a suite of new crop protection solutions for Camelina growers. This partnership will greatly expand labeled crop protection products for […]
In California, Chevron Lummus Global LLC announced the completion and successful startup of an ISOTERRA unit as part of Chevron’s renewable fuel conversion project at their El Segundo Refinery in Southern California. The ISOTERRA unit leverages both the refinery’s existing assets and Chevron Lummus Global’s proprietary catalyst and reactor internals technology to achieve exceptional diesel […]
In Washington, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced settlements with ethanol producer Alto Ingredients to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Air Act at two of its facilities, Alto Pekin LLC and Alto ICP LLC, in Pekin, Illinois. Under the terms of the settlements, Pekin will pay a penalty of $308,374 and ICP will pay […]
In Washington, the Renewable Fuels Association reports U.S. ethanol exports rebounded 18% to 120.5 million gallons (mg) in September, thanks in part to global denatured fuel sales reaching an 18-month high. Canada was our largest destination for the 30th consecutive month with exports of 60.4 mg, accounting for half of total sales despite a 3% decrease from […]
In Denmark, Wärtsilä has engineered, delivered, and installed the biogas upgrading solution to a new biogas 17 tons per day liquefaction plant in Hjørring, Denmark. The contract was awarded to Wärtsilä in 2022, and the official start-up took place in June 2023. The facility is one of two biogas plants owned and operated by GrønGas […]
In Germany, thyssenkrupp Uhde has been awarded a contract by ENOWA, NEOM’s energy and water company, for engineering services and the supply, design and procurement of equipment for a new CO2-to-methanol and methanol-to-gasoline demonstration plant at ENOWA’s Hydrogen Innovation and Development Center (HIDC) in Saudi Arabia. The plant is a joint development of ENOWA and […]
In Missouri, Vision RNG and Meridian Waste celebrated the grand opening and ribbon cutting of the State of Missouri’s first Landfill Gas (LFG) to Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) plant last month at Meridian’s Eagle Ridge Landfill in Bowling Green, Missouri. This marks the efforts of the VRNG/Meridian Waste partnership over the past 18 months to […]
In Brazil, Braskem and Northwestern University (USA) have announced a partnership to develop a technology platform for converting the CO2 generated by industrial operations. It is based on co-electrolysis, a technology that makes full use of electricity to convert CO2 into products of interest. In typical electrochemical devices, apart from CO2 conversion, water is converted […]
In Canada, Advanced Biofuels Canada (ABFC) released its fiscal recommendations to attract $10-15 billion of new clean fuel capital investments to build new Canadian clean fuel production capacity and infrastructure by 2030. ABFC’s ‘Clean Fuels Strategy’ report profiles fiscal measures that will assure that Canadian-based clean fuel production remains competitive in the global market and, specifically, position […]
In North Dakota, Harvestone announced the commencement of carbon dioxide (CO2) injection as a part of its carbon capture and storage (CCS) project at the Blue Flint Ethanol facility near Underwood, North Dakota. The Blue Flint facility began active CO2 injection in October after receiving final approval from the North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources. Blue Flint is the […]
