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Bioenergy PROFITS Principles: Integration – Every Penny Counts
By Biofuels Digest columnist Dr. Rosalie Lober
As the world gets flatter, companies are forced to become more efficient. The internet provides transparency for customers and competitors alike. Margins are smaller and many industries risk commoditization. The world of biofuels is no exception. Add to this transparency a fickle economy and the unpredictability of nature. [...]
Camelina: a Market Forecast and Strategy Report
Camelina: a Market Forecast and Strategy Report
40 graphs and charts
Published March 2010
From Biomass Advisors, a Biofuels Digest company
Camelina has been much in the news of late, as a biofuels feedstock of strong promise, because of its position as one of the few “sustainable, affordable, reliable, available” feedstocks suitable for aviation biofuels.
In November, KLM Royal Dutch [...]
Biofuels industry says wastes, residues “most promising feedstock.”
In Florida, biofuels industry executives selected “Agricultural, forest, municipal, animal residues and wastes” over algae as the most promising biofuels feedstock, in a Biofuels Digest poll. 43 percent of poller respondents selected residues and wastes as “the most promising”, followed by algae (35 percent), with jatropha and sugar cane tied at 9 percent and corn, [...]
Great Plains doubling camelina acreage in 2010 as aviation biofuels darling gains traction
Camelina has been much in the news of late, as a biofuels feedstock of strong promise, because of its position as one of the few “sustainable, affordable, reliable, available” feedstocks suitable for aviation biofuels.
In November, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines made the first biofuels test flight with passengers on board, powering one engine with a mixture [...]
Next Generation Biofuels: The Big Picture
By Biofuels Digest columnist Will Thurmond
As industry and governments enter a new decade and contemplate the outcome of the December, 2009 Copenhagen treaty, the ‘big picture’ on biofuels continues to get lost in the rhetoric of sustainability in Brussels and Washington. ??The European Union and the United States are the two largest consumers of petroleum [...]
Bioenergy PROFITS Principles: “Flexibility” and AltAir, Rentech, and aviation industry considered
FLEXIBLITY and Alternative Fuel For The Airline Industry
In December, both AltAir Fuels and RenTech negotiated a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with more than 14 major airlines, led by the ATA, from the United States, Mexico, Canada and Germany to negotiate the purchase of up to 750 million gallons of renewable jet fuel and diesel derived [...]
Qatar Airways, Airbus, and Qatar Petroleum announce aviation biofuels development project
In Qatar, Qatar Airways, Qatar Science & Technology Park, Qatar Petroleum and Airbus announced the establishment of the Qatar Advanced Biofuel Platform, which will prepare a detailed engineering and implementation plan for economically viable and sustainable biofuel production, a biofuel investment strategy, and an advanced technology development program.
Last October, Qatar Airways successfully conducted the world’s [...]
The Brazilian Connection: As renewable jet fuel gains traction, Brazil’s sugarcane is more popular than ever
The Brazilian connection in renewable jet fuel
“Do you know the way to San Jose?
I’ve been away so long. I may go wrong and lose my way.
Do you know the way to San Jose?
I’m going back to find some peace of mind in San Jose.”
—Do You Know the Way to San Jose? by Burt Bachrach and [...]
50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy for 2009/10: #12, UOP Honeywell
UOP Honeywell
Based in: Illinois
Business: Honeywell’s UOP has developed a renewable jet fuel processing technology, as well as a joint venture. UOP and Ensyn announced the formation of a new joint venture, dubbed Envergent Technologies, that will market technologies and equipment for generating power, transportation fuel and heating oil from biomass using pyrolysis. The [...]
Cyanobacteria: the new biofuels platform?
BUENOS AIRES – It is early afternoon just before Christmas and the sun is moving west along the Rio de la Plata in the general direction of the Paraná, the river that continues northeast towards Santa Fe province and the great soy fields of the Argentine. It continues north into Brazil and anchors the great [...]
