In Indiana, POET, the world’s largest biofuels producer, completed construction on an addition to its POET Bioprocessing – Portland facility. This addition allows the facility to capture renewable CO2, a co-product of POET’s bioethanol production process, to be sold for commercial use. POET’s renewable CO2 is a part of the all-natural POET Pure line of […]
It’s barely December yet but some are already having visions of sugar beets, not sugar plums, dancing in their heads, thanks to a new Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC) and Scottish Enterprise working on proposals to re-introduce sugar beet as a more sustainable alternative to fossil fuels used for bioethanol in Scotland. Their data shows […]
From South Dakota, The Digest has learned that POET is in exclusive discussions with Flint Hills Resources over the possible acquisition of their biofuels business. Flint Hills Resources is the nation’s fifth-largest bioethanol producer, and this acquisition would include all six of their bioethanol production facilities in Iowa and Nebraska with a combined annual capacity […]
In India, Tribune India reports that Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati researchers have formulated efficient ‘pincer’ catalytic systems that transform industrial/biomass wastes into valuable chemicals like lactic acid and hydrogen. Such catalysts also efficiently convert bioethanol, a low-energy density fuel, into high-energy density butanol. “Pincer catalysts are complex molecules in which, an organic moiety holds […]
In Argentina, La Nacion reports the biodiesel industry’s idle capacity is around 60%, the highest in the last 10 years. Meanwhile, in the case of bioethanol, demand has fallen by 30%. This situation comes months after the expiration of the law that establishes the obligatory nature of cutting with biofuels from fossil fuels, next May. […]
In India, the Hindu reports that researchers in the Indian Institute of Technology-Hyderabad are using machine learning techniques to understand the factors and impediments to incorporating biofuels into the fuel sector in India, and found production cost to be the main hinderance to acceptance and use of biofuels. The model developed by the IITH team […]
In Finland, Valmet will supply automation to AustroCel’s bioethanol plant currently under construction in Hallein, Austria. The advanced automation technology will provide the plant with high operational flexibility, reliability and availability in producing biofuel to replace fossil fuel. The order was included in Valmet’s orders received of the first quarter 2020. The value of the […]
In Germany, BASF is significantly expanding the production of disinfectant at its Ludwigshafen site and has now started production of hand sanitizer based on bioethanol, in addition to the isopropanol-based hand sanitizer manufactured to date. With the additional quantities of up to 100,000 liters of hand sanitizer per week, the company will support the new […]
In Italy, Eni and FCA teamed up to develop “A20”, a new fuel with a low level of emissions due to its 15% methanol and 5% bio-ethanol alcohol content. By harnessing its low carbon content, bio component and high octane number, the new alternative fuel emits up to 3% less in CO2 exhaust emissions quantified […]
In the Philippines, bioethanol distillers and producers asked the government, Sugar Regulatory Administration which is part of the Department of Agriculture, to allow molasses imports, in order to meet the yearly demand of 500 million liters of bioethanol and help grow the P30-billion bioethanol industry. Currently, they only can reach about 60% of demand because […]
