Category: Fuels

Solid Waste Association of North America report assesses alternative fuels for waste collection vehicles

Solid Waste Association of North America report assesses alternative fuels for waste collection vehicles

September 13, 2022 |

In Maryland, the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) Applied Research Foundation (ARF) has issued an important new report assessing the viability of electricity and other alternative fuels for solid waste and recycling collection vehicles. The publication analyzes electricity, hydrogen fuel cells, compressed and renewable natural gas, and ultra-low sulfur and renewable diesel in […]

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Brazilian ethanol production falls during H2 August to 2.25B liters

Brazilian ethanol production falls during H2 August to 2.25B liters

September 13, 2022 |

In Brazil, Reuters reports ethanol production during the second half of August fell 1.23% to 2.25 billion liters with sugarcane mills diverting just 51.6% of the sugarcane crush towards ethanol production. Mills crushed 44.02 million metric tons during H2 August, nearly 1.8% more than the same period last year. The crush is currently 10% behind […]

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Iowa’s on-farm biodiesel program grows with new funding

Iowa’s on-farm biodiesel program grows with new funding

September 13, 2022 |

In Iowa, as the fall harvest grows closer, funding has more than tripled for a new statewide On-Farm Biodiesel Credit program to give back to farmers using biodiesel on their farms. The program, launched in August by the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association, refunds farmers up to 50 cents per gallon for buying biodiesel blends. Originally […]

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Synhelion succeeds in industrial scale syngas production from solar heat

Synhelion succeeds in industrial scale syngas production from solar heat

September 13, 2022 |

In Germany, Synhelion has become the first company in the world to succeed in producing syngas on an industrial scale using only solar heat as an energy source. The Swiss solar fuel pioneer successfully demonstrated this on the multifocus solar tower of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Jülich, North Rhine-Westphalia. The last decisive technical […]

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Great Wrap taking compostable cling wrap to the US following Series A funding

Great Wrap taking compostable cling wrap to the US following Series A funding

September 13, 2022 |

In Australia, Jordy and Julia Kay, Co-founders of Great Wrap, are disruptors in an industry that has not seen change since the 1940s. Great Wrap, a materials science company that manufactures the only certified home compostable stretch wrap from potato waste, is expanding to the U.S. in August, to end the American reliance on petroleum-based […]

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Desmet Ballestra to design YPFB’s biodiesel and HVO plants

Desmet Ballestra to design YPFB’s biodiesel and HVO plants

September 12, 2022 |

In Bolivia, the Biodiesel-1 Plant will be built with advanced technology equipment that will be manufactured in Europe, Asia, Brazil and other countries in order to reduce imports and subsidies for diesel. The delivery of the Order to Proceed, between representatives of YPFB Refining and the Desmet Ballestra company, will make the implementation of the […]

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Vertex conversion of Alabama refinery to renewable diesel postponed to Q1 2023

Vertex conversion of Alabama refinery to renewable diesel postponed to Q1 2023

September 12, 2022 |

In Texas, Vertex is currently working on completing a $90-$100 million capital project designed to modify the company’s Mobile, Alabama Refinery existing hydrocracking unit to produce renewable diesel fuel on a standalone basis. Upon completion of the conversion project, the refinery is expected to commence production of approximately 8,000 – 10,000 barrels per day (bpd) […]

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Toyotsu Energy Corporation supplied marine biodiesel via ship-to-ship bunkering

Toyotsu Energy Corporation supplied marine biodiesel via ship-to-ship bunkering

September 12, 2022 |

In Japan, Toyotsu Energy Corporation supplied marine biodiesel using ship-to-ship bunkering for a car carrier operated by Toyofuji Shipping Co., Ltd. at the Port of Nagoya on July 26 and August 3, 2022. This initiative was implemented as part of the “Study for the Promotion of Carbon-Neutral in Coastal Shipping” included in the FY2021 supplementary […]

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SoCalGas and University of California, Irvine team to demo electrolytic hydrogen blending

SoCalGas and University of California, Irvine team to demo electrolytic hydrogen blending

September 12, 2022 |

In California, Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) and the University of California, Irvine (UCI) announced a proposed collaboration to demonstrate how electrolytic hydrogen can be safely blended into existing natural gas infrastructure on the university’s campus. The project aims to help better understand how clean fuels like renewable hydrogen could be delivered at scale through […]

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Growth Energy slams Reuters article recycling highly misleading ethanol claims

Growth Energy slams Reuters article recycling highly misleading ethanol claims

September 12, 2022 |

In Washington, Growth Energy CEO Emily Skor released the following statement in response to a Reuters article that recycles highly misleading claims about ethanol’s climate benefits based on a widely debunked study by Tyler Lark and others. “Today’s Reuters article is another rehash of the same false assumptions behind a study released in February that […]

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