News arrived from Finland that Neste, UK-based chemical recycling company ReNew ELP, and Australian technology developer Licella have partnered to explore the potential of using mixed waste plastic as a raw material for fuels, chemicals, and new plastics. The Wonder from Down Under, Licella, joined up with the Flying Finns of Neste? Powerful potential that. […]
by Antoine Schellinger Special to The Digest In what has now become the final RFS2 issued policy under Scott Pruitt, there is no change from the policy established in the proposed and final 2018 Renewable Volume Obligation (RVO). The use of cellulosic waiver authority still dominates the rationale. EPA still back calculating (“implied volume requirement”) […]
By Martin Wahl and Gerald Kutney, Lee Enterprises Consulting Special to The Digest The preceding articles in this series cover the major steps that investors and entrepreneurs should take to advance bioeconomy project product and process development. In retrospect, the most striking aspect of the articles is the diversity of talent, experience and approaches exhibited by […]
In Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made an appearance at the GLOBE 2016 Conference in Vancouver last week, visiting the BioCube transportable biodiesel refinery for a walk-through of the process. Trudeau expressed interest in the applications for the BioCube in developing economies such as India, Africa, China, SE Asia, and Latin America. The BioCube is […]
In Canada, BioCube has successfully deployed its refinery on remote sites in The Congo, in India, and elsewhere around the world to produce fossil-free fuel for heavy equipment and power generation. The BioCube™ can produce in excess of 1.5 million litres of high quality biodiesel from a variety of waste and renewable feedstock oils such […]
In Florida, The Digest announced that it’s newest series, The New Voices, is set to begin filming March 10th. The first season’s cast has been finalized and includes: Paul Woods, CEO, Algenol, Rebecca Boudreaux, president, Oberon Fuels; Eric McAfee, CEO, Aemetis; and Claire Curry, analyst, Bloomberg New Energy Finance. 12 episodes are expected to be […]
Tired of corn, corn, corn or cane, cane, cane? There are 101 feedstocks in the biofuels canon. Here’s what’s up with each of them, and all of them. In Florida, Biofuels Digest released its annual Guide to biofuels feedstocks, tracking 10,658 items published in the Digest in the past 48 months on 101 feedstocks for […]
FIRST PRIZE: Nathan VanVelzen pumping waste vegetable oil from a local restaurant for AES’s biofuelproject.com. The WVO to be used for AES’s BioGen systems which earlier this year generated over 130,000 kilowatt hours on demand for less than $50,000. Photo: Elizabeth L. King. Biofuels Digest adds: “One of the most visually interesting, upbeat and colorful […]
In Connecticut, Greenleaf Biofuels is planning on operating a biodiesel facility at the New Haven Terminal Property. According to Greenleaf’s website, the “…plant will be sited within the fuel tank storage farm area of New Haven harbor – the largest such fuel storage farm between New York and Boston. This area is also a key […]
In Brazil, members of the The Grease Project team, competing at this year’s MIT IDEAS Competition, will undertake training of catadores, or “wastepickers,”, an underclass in Brazil numbering up to 500,000 persons that make their living from picking through trash. The group intends to train the catadores to produce biodiesel from waste vegetable oil that […]
