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The Farm Bill: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide to the Energy Title
Tweet What’s in that Durn-tootin’ US Farm Bill, anyhow? For the harried taxpayer, some relief. For energy security and rural economic development, targeted investments that now head to the legislative floor. Here are the need-to-knows. In Washington, the House and Senate Agricultural committees have now passed their respective versions of the proposed 2013 farm bill, which [...]
Enerkem starts “drop-in” fuels R&D
Tweet Also, next-gen waste-to-biofuels biofuels pioneer expects to reach commissioning stage by summer at first commercial plant In Canada, Enerkem announced that the Canadian government will contribute $1.1 million to a project developing new catalytic processes for the conversion of waste into “drop-in” biofuels. These “drop-in” biofuels are fully interchangeable with hydrocarbon fuels, such as [...]
Out of the Shell: oil giant’s big biofuels ambitions
Tweet One thing to remember about Shell – it’s not your Dad’s oil company. In an exclusive Digest interview, Shell’s VP for Alternative Energy, Matthew Tipper, reveals the company’s thinking about RFS2, their increasing re-focus on North America and the EU. Plus, Shell’s ambition to “build, own and operate” a global biofuels business “to complement [...]
Dynamic Geismar plant to reopen by July
Tweet In Louisiana, Dynamic Fuels’s Geismar renewable diesel plant is expected to resume operations by July. The facility, the product of the joint venture between Syntroluem and Tyson Foods, was idled in 2012. The company ordered a new catalyst for the plant in February, which is expected to increase yields to 88%, resulting in revenues [...]
LCFS review drubs oil industry report: top 10 quotes
Tweet If you have been following events in California, oil refiners have been waging a well-funded war on California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard, which requires oil companies to reduce the carbon pollution from gasoline and diesel by 10 percent by 2020. Centerpiece in their strategy was a June 2012 report from Boston Consulting Group (funded [...]
Coordinating Research Council releases report comparing renewable diesel with standard diesel
Tweet In Florida, ARA submitted a sample of its ReadiDiesel for a Coordinating Research Council (CRC) alternative and renewable diesel study — resulting in the report “Advanced Alternative and Renewable Diesel Fuels: Detailed Characterization of Physical and Chemical Properties” that compares the results of detailed analyses of the physical and chemical properties of ten advanced alternative and [...]
Sanimax supplies stainless steel tanks for Wisconsin biodiesel industry
Tweet In Wisconsin, Sanimax partnered with Apache Stainless Equipment Corp. to provide stainless steel tanks to support growing production of B100 Biodiesel fuel. The Sanimax facility in DeForest, Wisconsin is dedicated to the processing of 100% renewable Biodiesel fuel. Apache supported their need for increased capacity by supplying one atmospheric stainless tank and three pressure [...]
Enerkem scores nearly $3 million from $85 million Canadian energy fund
Tweet In Canada, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced support of more than $82 million through Natural Resources Canada’s ecoENERGY Innovation Initiative (ecoEII) for 55 innovative projects across Canada. Of these, 15 will be pre-commercialization demonstration projects to test the feasibility of various technologies, and 40 will be research and development projects to address knowledge gaps and [...]
Growing rift between RFA and ABA over Brazilian ethanol imports
Tweet In Washington, there’s a political rift opening up between the Renewable Fuels Association and the Advanced Biofuels Association because the latter thinks the former is encroaching on its turf by trying to get the EPA to limit the advanced biofuels quota in an attempt to reduce Brazilian ethanol imports. The National Biodiesel Board is [...]
Crazy 8s: Algae’s 8 crazy-fast cores of innovation
Tweet Who’s behind the 8-ball, the algae optimists or pessimists? It all comes down to the pace of innovation in 8 cores. Predictions of when algae biofuels will become an everyday option at scale are, famously, all over the map — ranging from “the next few years” to “never”. In a recent survey of its [...]
