In Illinois, Honeywell announced that a CVR Energy, Inc. subsidiary has selected Honeywell UOP Ecofining technology to study conversion of seed oils, tallow and white/yellow greases into renewable diesel fuel at its facility in Coffeyville, Kansas. CVR Energy is currently evaluating the conversion of an existing hydroprocessing unit at the plant to a single-stage Ecofining […]
In Iowa, Chevron Lummus Global LLC (CLG) and Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) today announced that the companies have been awarded a technology contract by ReadiFuels-Iowa, LLC for their renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) project in Sioux Center, Iowa. The scope of the project includes the technology license, basic engineering, catalyst supply and proprietary […]
In the UK, Argus has launched new price assessments for renewable diesel in Europe along with 30 new daily renewable feedstock price assessments in the US, reflecting the growing importance of environmentally friendly fuels for the transportation sector. The new feedstock prices, published daily in the Argus America Biofuels report, are based on waste products […]
What the delegates were saying about CNG, fuel cells, and hydrogen, biogas as a platform, new markets, including EVs and succinic acid, policy, methane, emissions, novel crops, and renewable diesel. In Florida, ABLC Digital opened for 583 registered delegates — and 774 additional viewers taking in the four hours of ABLC content that was streamed […]
Q: What was the reason for founding your organization – what was the open niche you saw that could be addressed with a new product or service? What was the problem, or gap, or opportunity? Great underutilization of local biofuel, waste vegetable oil from local restaurants. As the commodity yellow grease, no prior retail use […]
In Washington, Platts reports that Energy Information Agency data shows that biodiesel production rose in May to 154 million tons, 2 million tons higher than in April. Of the total, 69% was produced in the Midwest while nearly 56% of feedstock was soybean oil. Corn oil and yellow grease were the two largest feedstocks after […]
By Jess Hewitt and Jonathan Lewis, Lee Enterprises Consulting Special to The Digest Biojet is in the news a lot lately, with one carrier after another announcing a test flight. But widespread use by most airlines just does not seem to be happening. Why? Let’s look at the case for Biojet and determine its real […]
Benefuel Inc. Q: What was the reason for founding your organization – what was the open niche you saw that could be addressed with a new product or service? What was the problem, or gap, or opportunity? Benefuel recognized that biodiesel production from virgin oil seeds was neither profitable nor sustainable long term. However, to […]
In Germany, UFOP reports that while the availability and price of vegetable and animal oils and fats play a key role in biodiesel production, rapeseed oil continues to be the most important source of raw materials for biodiesel production in the EU. With the lower supply and the resulting increase in the price of the […]
In Connecticut, REA Resource Recovery Systems has teamed with the University of Connecticut to produce biodiesel from brown FOG collected from the Greater New Haven Water Pollution Control Authority. The company demoed its technology to the governor last month. Previously, the company developed technology to use yellow grease as feedstock but sought a solution to […]
