In Malaysia, OFI reports that the national palm oil council wants the European Union to include palm wastes and residues in its list of approved waste feedstocks for biofuel production. The use of palm oil as biofuel feedstock is highly controversial in Europe and is being phased out, which Malaysia and Indonesia continue to fight […]
In Spain, researchers from the Universitat Politècnica de València have created a biodegradable material from palm tree waste that has comparable properties to carbon fiber. Dubbed Fiberpalm, the innovation is the brainchild of mechanical engineering students Manel Cabanes, Álvaro Gallego and Mario Salido; business administration and management majors Ángeles Vendrell and Ariadna Sánchez, and chemical […]
In Malaysia, Graphene NanoChem has added Petron Fuel International as a customer. The first delivery of PlatAmber, the group’s palm waste based biofuel for the Malaysian market began last week.
In Malaysia, after 10 years of research and collaboration with experts from Japan, researchers at Universiti Malaysia Sarawak have begun producing biofuel from palm ‘sago’ (stem pith) waste. The plant will be opened to the public as an exhibition this month. The project will be expanded next year as pilot trials begin for biodiesel production […]
In Malaysia, Mission NewEnergy is drawing up plans for a waste material processing facility which will draw on palm oil recovered from waste material in the palm oil refining process. The plant, which has received all the necessary government sanctions, is expected to be fully operational at 66,000 tons/year by September of 2012.
In Indonesia, PT INKUD Exchange has signed an MOU with Malaysian company Lestari Pasifik Berhad to jointly develop 616 biorefineries in the two countries to process oil palm waste into ethanol during the next five years. The JV’s pilot project will be set up in Sumatra. Lestari Pasifik has a JV with Russian company Arter […]
In Indonesia, researchers at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences and the Korea International Cooperation Agency said that they expect to launch a pilot plant in 2012 that will produce 10 liters of ethanol per day from oil plan residues. The research team, which began its project in 2007 and expanded last year with a $2.2M […]
In Malaysia, Sime Darby Plantation and Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding, of Japan, have announced a partnership that will produce cellulosic ethanol from up to 1.25 metric tons of palm fruit waste per day, in a pilot-scale project that will produce an estimated 35-50,000 gallons per year of ethanol on an annualized basis and will be […]
