In South Africa, Partners for Innovation (Netherlands), Hive Energy (United Kingdom), iLive Sustainable Development (South Africa) have joined forces to establish Coega Biomass Centre. The company, funded by Hive Energy has taken over and will restore the existing non-operational plant to produce high quality wood pellets using biomass residues, non-indigenous forest and destructive invasive vegetation, […]
In South Africa, businesses and individuals involved in bio-innovation are invited to register on the Bioeconomy SA Portal, a web-based platform that collects information from different sources and integrates it into a single, uniform and secure user interface. The portal, an initiative of the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI), is expected to become a […]
In South Africa, the Cabinet approved the Biofuels Regulatory Framework, which will give effect to the implementation of the Biofuel Industrial Strategy. The framework provides five areas to be regulated namely: The feedstock Protocol. The protocol mitigates the risk of the biofuels program towards food security. The mandatory blending regulations so as to create certainty […]
In South Africa, Solaris-based biodiesel will be integrated into the ground-handling operations at O.R.Tambo International Airport. This will support a feasible scale-up of feedstock production and infrastructure such that a fully localized value chain for a Hydro-treated Vegetable Oil (HVO) refinery may be achieved in the coming years, producing bio-jet fuel and green diesel. The […]
In South Africa, the Lowvelder reports that using rudimentary techniques on a very small scale, some ingenious local entrepreneurs are producing gasoline, diesel and usably byproducts for candles and floor wax from waste plastic collected around the area. From the waste plastic collected in 250 corn bags, he can produce 5 liters of fuel. He […]
In South Africa, the African News Agency reports that the Democratic Alliance political party has called for the urgent creation of a task force to support the biofuel industry in KwaZulu Natal in response to sugar companies suffering from an onslaught of cheaper sugar imports that has put the sugar industry itself in jeopardy. Tongaat […]
In South Africa, the Gledhow sugar mill used to produce just sugarcane products like refined sugar, but is diversifying into biofuel now that the South African government has been more supportive of biofuel from sugarcane. Since the government’s new sugar tax a year ago, there has been a surplus of sugarcane in South Africa that […]
In South Africa, Cramers Engineering News reports that MultiCycle is looking to use black soldier fly-based processing of human waste into biodiesel, lubricants and other valuable materials under its BioCycle arm, with design for its first commercial-scale plant expected by the end of 2020. In essence, the larvae are “seeded” onto the fecal waste that […]
In South Africa, a breakthrough by the African Centre for Crop Improvement in the breeding of sorghum could have far-reaching implications for the biofuel and bioplastic industries in South Africa. With funding from Technology Innovation Agency (TIA), which is based in South Africa’s Department of Science and Technology (DST), Laing has been working on how […]
In South Africa, the country’s first project using LanzaTech’s ethanol technology from industrial waste gases has received the go ahead. Construction of the 60 million liter per year facility co-located at the Samancor ferrochrome smelter will begin next year. The $77 million plant is as a result of a grant from the U.S. Trade and […]
