In Iran, the Islamic Republic News Agency reports that the country’s first ethanol plant is 85% complete with the facility expected for commissioning by March 2023. The facility is expected to reduce fossil fuel imports by $65 million. The country’s fuel market is challenged by continued US sanctions which also made construction of the facility […]
In Iran, Reuters reports the Revolutionary Guards Corps seized a South Korean-flagged tanker carrying 7,200 metric tons of ethanol that was headed to Fujairah in the UAE from Jubail, in Saudi Arabia. The vessel was seized and escorted to Iran’s Bandar Abbas port city while its mostly South Asian crew was detained. Iran seized the […]
In Iran, Press TV reports Brazilian corn that arrived last year but has been stuck in port due to aflatoxin contamination will instead be used as ethanol feedstock. Customs authorities will release the shipment that has been at Imam Khomeini Port since it was unloaded. The government originally planned to destroy the shipment despite complaints […]
In Iran, the Financial Tribune reports that the country has lifted a ban on ethanol imports as it attempts to secure ethanol for disinfectants. The country is one of the worst hit by the COVID-19 pandemic and is desperate to bring the disease’s spread to a halt. Orders for the Central Bank to release foreign […]
In Iran, the Tehran Times newspaper reports that the capital city’s three-year biodiesel bus trial saw carbon dioxide emissions savings of 160,000 kg from the use of 60,000 liters of biodiesel and the next phase will now kick off. The first phase included 300 buses running on blends of between 2% and 15% of UCO-based […]
In Iran, a researcher from the Islamic Azad University of Bushehr Bushehr has determined that chicken fat is an appropriate feedstock for biodiesel production when it is going to be blended at high ratios of 75% or above or used as B100. The results of various production tests looked at varying levels of catalysts and […]
In India, the Department of Science and Technology of the Ministry of Science and Technology has teamed with the Center for International Scientific Cooperation of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology of Iran in a joint call for research proposals on a wide range of topics including microbial biotechnology with an emphasis on cellulosic […]
In Iran, Tehran is turning to biodiesel to help reduce carbon emissions in its public transport sector, with 20 out of 300 buses running on biodiesel. The move is part of a wider policy to reduce air pollution including the introduction of cleaner fuel standards, mitigating air pollution using funds generated by a green tax, […]
In Iran, Italian private sector is set to invest $450 million in a new ethanol facility in Amirabad Special Economic Zone that will use 1 million metric tons annually of inedible wheat as feedstock. The Italian investor has yet to be named but the contract for the investment will be signed soon. The exact project […]
In Iran, scientists at the Petroleum University of Technology in Ahwaz have developed a high-speed conversion that turns waste cooking oil into fuel using ultrasound and caustic soda. Details are reported in the International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology. The team has demonstrated that biodiesel can be quickly produced from waste cooking oil […]
