In California, Cavitation Technologies, Inc. announced that Desmet Ballestra Group, CVAT’s strategic partner since 2010, has completed a sale agreement for Nano Reactor system with a bio-diesel refinery in South America and the company anticipates receiving revenue of approximately $190,000. CVAT’s Biodiesel Nano Reactor is designed to use various feedstocks such as soy oil, canola […]
In Brazil, Bloomberg reports that in an effort to secure the loan needed to cover the remaining $740 million in debt of its former sugar and ethanol arm Biosev, Louis Dreyfus has had to put up as collateral its 3.5% stake in Raizen that it will received as part of the unit’s sale. Louis Dreyfus […]
In Kenya, The Africa Report says Vuma Biofuels will shortly begin supplying power produced from sugarcane bagasse briquettes to industrial tea users but sees the real opportunity in household energy. The company is in the early stages of negotiations with the UN High Commission for Refugees to supply briquettes for clean cooking to help reduce […]
In Germany, Shell would like to manufacture sustainable aviation fuels in the Wesseling section of the Rhineland Refinery. To this end, the company wants to set up a first commercial Bio-PTL (Power-to-Liquid) plant. The synthetically produced kerosene is intended to help reduce airline CO 2 footprint. In addition, the capacity of the PEM hydrogen electrolysis […]
In the UK, Law360 reports that GAIA Heat is suing Greenergy to recoup $2.8 million paid out by its insurers following damage to boilers. The company claims that Greenergy allowed the boilers to be contaminated through negligence that caused a leak. The negligence is allegedly as a result of failing to treat the boilers with […]
In India, the Economic Times newspaper reports that Indian Oil Company plans to set up two mega-biorefineries, one in Telangana and the other in Andhra Pradesh. The facilities are the first of 12 IOC expects to develop in different states across the country. The two biorefineries will use wheat and paddy straw as feedstock for […]
In China, researchers from the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Nanjing Normal University recently reported a strategy for boosting the electrocatalytic performance of palladium (Pd) in ethanol oxidation reaction, the key anodic reaction of direct ethanol fuel cells (DEFCs), offering a rational concept for finely engineering the surface […]
In Nebraska, Attorney General Doug Peterson filed a complaint in the District Court of Saunders County alleging multiple environmental violations by AltEn, LLC. AltEn is an ethanol plant located near Mead, Nebraska. The complaint alleges violations of the Nebraska Environmental Protection Act (NEPA), violations of the Integrated Solid Waste Management Act (ISWMA) and multiple violations […]
In the UK, as a result of the government’s decision to roll out E10 in September, both Vivergo and Ensus have decided to restart ethanol production. Both facilities had shut down because the delay in implementing the E10 mandate had made them inviable to continue operating. Now that E10 has been mandated and the environment […]
In Texas, Darling and Valero jointly announced that their 50/50 joint venture, Diamond Green Diesel (“DGD”), has received approval from both companies’ boards of directors to proceed with the construction of the renewable diesel production facility to be located at Valero’s Port Arthur, Texas refinery. DGD Port Arthur’s capacity is estimated to be 470 million […]
