Archer Daniels Midland Co. has released a new corporate responsibility report that outlines efforts to curb emissions, reduce energy use and decrease water consumption at its facilities. The company is on track to meet its reduction goals.
Chempolis Ltd., a Finland-based biorefining technology corporation, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with ONGC, India's leading oil and gas exploration company for the development of a biorefinery project.
A recently released National Renewable Energy Laboratory report concluded that there are no meaningful differences between E10 and E15 on engine durability, emissions and other categories. The analysis included the review of 43 studies on E15 use.
A nearly 20 MMgy cellulosic ethanol facility in Crescentino, Italy, officially opened in early October, making it both the first and the largest commercial-scale facility of its kind in the world.
Two cellulosic ethanol developers are about to go prime time, turning garbage into biofuel at separate facilities in Canada and the U.S.
Ineos Bio brings the first commercial cellulosic ethanol plant in the U.S. online in Florida.
Three Rivers Energy LLC, Coshocton, Ohio, will begin grinding corn Monday, Oct. 14, bringing the long-idled 50 MMgy plant back online. Chicago-based firms Lakeview Energy LLC and Crestwood Energy LLC bought the plant in foreclosure proceedings.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration has published the October issue of its Short-Term Energy and Winter Fuels Outlook (STEO), noting that the ethanol industry is beginning to show some recovery from last year's drought.
The Renewable Fuels Association and Renewable Fuels Foundation have announced the availability of six student scholarships to 19th Annual National Ethanol Conference in Orlando, Fla. Feb. 17-19. Applications will be accepted through Dec. 13.
Beta Renewable and Novozymes has marked the official opening in Northern Italy of the world's largest advanced biofuels facility. The plant uses wheat straw, rice straw and arundo donax as feedstock to produce cellulosic ethanol.
The Republic of South Africa's Department of Energy recently announced that the country will begin requiring biofuels to be blended with gasoline and diesel starting Oct. 1, 2015. Ethanol blends of E2 to E10 will be permitted under the mandate.
Measuring current U.S. gasoline demand can be difficult, as there are 160,000 retail gasoline stations and more than 250 million vehicles in the country. However, ethanol blending offers a proxy to measure gas consumption.
ECI has begun the registration process to offer E15 to 2001 and newer vehicles in the Cedar Falls/Waterloo area in Iowa. "After reviewing the economics, offering E15 to 2001 and newer vehicles just makes sense for us," said Terry Grant of ECI.
Big River Resources LLC and Prairie Gold Inc. have signed agreements forming a joint venture to produce corn zein proteins. The new venture, Big River Prairie Gold LLC will construct and operate a zein production facility near Galva, Ill.
Lignol Energy Corp. has released its unaudited consolidated financial results for its first fiscal quarter of 2014, the three months ended July 31. The company reported an operating loss of $980,000, up slightly from the same quarter of last year.
Butanol has a new ASTM International standard, intended for blends with gasoline at 1 to 12.5 percent volumes to be used as an automotive spark-ignition engine fuel. The new specification, ASTM D7862, covers three butanol isomers.
Edeniq Inc. announced it has received notice of allowance from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, protecting three targeted process applications. The new patent is entitled "Materials and Methods for Converting Biomass to Biofuel."
BlueFire Renewables Inc. has integrated a synergistic wood pellet production plant to its facility in Fulton, Miss. The reconfigured design will be a 9 million gallon per year ethanol plant integrated with a 400,000 ton per year wood pellet plant.
The Iowa Renewable Fuels Association has released new testing data from vehicles driving in the real world that demonstrates Big Oil's earlier Coordinating Research Council testing on E15 has no real world implications.
The Renewable Fuels Association and Growth Energy are disputing the results of a new poll released by the American Petroleum Institute, calling the data biased and deceptive. The poll was conducted by Harris Interactive.
A second ethanol plant announced Oct. 1 it had agreed to purchase sugar through the Feedstock Flexibility Program for Bioenergy Producers. Pacific Ethanol Inc. joins Front Range Energy LLC in taking advantage of the program.
Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC, a biobutanol technology company, and Highwater Ethanol LLC, a producer of first-generation ethanol, have begun to retrofit Highwater's ethanol plant in Lamberton, Minn., for the production of biobutanol.
The Canadian government will invest $734,500 in a cellulosic ethanol project under development by Vanerco, a joint venture of Enerkem and GreenField, through Sustainable Development Technology Canada's Next Gen Biofuels Fund.
Nebraska-based Laurel BioComposite LLC recently moved into a newly constructed manufacturing facility, a fact celebrated during a Sept. 25 open house and ribbon cutting ceremony. The company's first production line is now operational.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration has released new statistics as part of its Monthly Energy Review outlining ethanol production and consumption data through June, showing that consumption increased during the first half of the year.
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