In Sweden, Flight Global Reports that Braathens Regional Airlines plans to run a 100% biofuel ATR turboprop flight in early 2022 as the company works to eventually run entirely on biofuel. One of the engines will run on 100% SAF while the other engine will run on a 50% SAF blend with an expected GHG […]
In South Korea, biomass waste can be used to produce porous carbons capable of sequestering CO₂ gas emitted from large point sources (e.g., power plants, cement industries). However, there are no general guidelines on how such high-quality porous carbons should be synthesized or their optimal operational conditions. In a recent study, scientists employed machine learning-based […]
In India, the Indian Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MoPNG) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) announced the launch of the India-US Task Force on Biofuels. The announcement was made earlier this month during the India-U.S. Strategic Clean Energy Partnership dialogue led by Hardeep Singh Puri, Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, […]
In the Netherlands, Royal Dutch Shell plc announced a final investment decision to build an 820,000-tons-a-year biofuels facility at the Shell Energy and Chemicals Park Rotterdam, the Netherlands, formerly known as the Pernis refinery. Once built, the facility will be among the biggest in Europe to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and renewable diesel made […]
In Hungary, Irish ClonBio Group Ltd has commissioned Hitachi Zosen Inova BioMethan to build a biomethane plant that will upgrade 5,000 Nm³/h of inlet biogas. It is to be constructed in 2022 in Dunaföldvár, Hungary, at Europe’s largest grain biorefinery, at ClonBio subsidiary Pannonia Bio Zrt. The upgrading process will use an in-house technology from […]
In India, the Business Standard newspaper reports 15 biofuel project proposals have been submitted to the state of West Bengal for approval. In an effort to achieve the national E20 blending mandate, the state is seeking to produce its own ethanol from its most abundant feedstock source, broken rice. The projects represent $362.3 million. In […]
In Brazil, Platts reports that in light of rising biodiesel prices that has forced the energy ministry to cut blending to 10% from the mandated 12% to keep prices down, a company is said to have imported 15,000 metric tons of soy oil from Argentina for biodiesel production. Platts did not report the price of […]
In Washington, Reuters reports Environmental Protection Agency data shows D6 RIN production fell by 600,000 in August to 1.21 billion. On the other hand, D4 renewable diesel RINs rose slightly to 421 million from the month prior when production was 359 million. With the renewable volume obligations still unclear for 2021 and 2022, the market […]
In the Ukraine, Interfax-Ukraine reports the national bioenergy association is calling for the creation of a biofuel exchange for biogas plants to ensure they have a consistent supply of feedstock. It says the domestic biomass market is underdeveloped, causing challenges for the different energy producers that use biomass as feedstock to displace 4 billion cubic […]
In Missouri, researchers at the Salk Institute’s Harnessing Plants Initiative (HPI) have established a five-year, $6.2 million collaboration the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center to identify and develop sorghum plants that can better capture and store atmospheric carbon.The work, which will first involve gaining a better understanding of the genetics of sorghum, fits into the […]
