All Entries Tagged With: "Sweden"
PetroVietnam orders ethanol equipment, engineering solutions from Alfa Laval for cassava ethanol plants
In Sweden, Alfa Laval announced that it had received a repeat order from PetroVietnam for $14 million in equipment and engineering solutions for a PetroVietnam ethanol plant in northern Vietnam using cassava as feedstock.
Alfa Laval’s heat exchangers will be used in a starch-based fermentation, distillation and dehydration process of the ethanol plant. Delivery is [...]
Sweden grants $73 million to Chemrec for demo of black liquor gasification for biofuels
In Sweden, the Swedish Energy R&D Board announced a $73 million grant in support of a demonstration of Chemrec’s technology for production of the renewable motor fuels BioDME and Biomethanol. The plant will be built at the Domsjö Fabriker biorefinery in Örnsköldsvik.
The investment grant is contingent on approval by the EU Directorate General for Competition [...]
Chemrec, Volvo and partners break ground on black liquor biofuels plant in Sweden
In Sweden, King Carl XVI Gustaf was on hand for groundbreaking at Chemrec’s renewable biofuel facility at the Smurfit Kappa paper mill in Pitea. The pilot plant will produce BioDme biofuel, and is expected to open next July with a production capacity of 584,000 gallons per year. The cost of the pilot facility is $20 [...]
Chemrec to break ground on BioDME demo plant in Sweden, using black liquor gasification
In Sweden, Chemrec announced that they will break ground in September on a BioDME (dimethyl ether) demonstration plant project in Piteå. The project will be completed in mid-2010, and will demonstrate the production of an advanced diesel fuel, DME, from forest biomass over the black liquor route. The company’s black liquor gasification development plant, also [...]
Sweden’s BEST biofuel project says 32 percent of Swedish cars now “clean vehicles”
In Sweden, the Stockholm BEST project, which focuses on the need for biofuel solutions to thrive, said that “clean vehicles” accounted for 32 per cent of Stockholm auto sales last year and that clean cars command an overall five percent market share.
The organization said that they developed an effective counter to anti-ethanol rhetoric, but have [...]
Swedish report concludes biogas most effective government subsidy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions
In Sweden, Vinnova, the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems, concluded in a report that biogas investments are the most effective government subsidy for reducing CO2-emissions. The report evaluated all aspects of the Swedish “Climate Investment Programme” and found that biogas investments proved 10 – 100 times more economically efficient than all other compared investments.
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