GE Aviation recently announced it has signed a 10-year agreement to purchase 500,000 gallons or more of cellulosic synthetic biofuel annually from Washington, D.C.-based D'Arcinoff Group, beginning in 2016.
Douglas Tiffany, assistant extension professor at the University of Minnesota, discussed the economics of co-locating torrefaction, ethanol and coal power plants at the University of North Dakota on Nov. 6.
Adkins Energy LLC, a 48 MMgy ethanol plant located in Lena, Ill., is poised to begin construction on a 2 MMgy co-located biodiesel plant, which will utilize the distillers corn oil separated at the ethanol plant as a biodiesel feedstock.
Douglas Tiffany, assistant extension professor at the University of Minnesota, discussed the economics of co-locating torrefaction, ethanol and coal power plants at the University of North Dakota on Nov. 6.
The record corn supply has multiple implications for the ethanol industry. The USDA's Nov. 8 supply/demand report pegged the 2013 corn crop at 13.989 billion bushels, a new record at more than 700 million bushels higher than the previous record.
The Danish government has filed a report on its domestic market for wood pellets with the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service's Global Agricultural Information Network, noting Denmark is the largest importer of wood pellets in the world.
An ethanol plant commodity manager talks about his career path and current job at an Iowa production facility.
CARD analyses discuss E85 and the RFS
November 08, 2013
Two new papers published by Iowa State University economists Bruce Babcock and Sebastien Pouliot discuss E85 investment and consumption. Both papers were published under the ISU's Center for Agricultural and Rural Development.
Beijing Shougang LanzaTech New Energy Science & Technology Co., Ltd. has earned Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials sustainability certification for the joint venture's facility that converts waste steel mill gases to sustainable biofuels.
Battelle engineers and scientists have developed a mobile device that transforms biomass materials into valuable bio-oil using catalytic pyrolysis. The unit currently converts 1 ton of feedstock into as much as 130 gallons of wet bio-oil.
The Renewable Fuels Association and the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway will co-host a free Ethanol Safety Seminar on Nov. 14 at the Pipestone Fire Hall in Pipestone, Minn. Afternoon and evening sessions are scheduled.
The Biomass Thermal Energy Council and the Pellet Fuels Institute are urging stakeholders of the biomass thermal industry to contact their congresspersons about supporting the Biomass Thermal Utilization Act.
Akron, Ohio-based KB Bioenergy has started up a new $32 million state of the art high solids anaerobic digestion system. The project includes three 600-kilowatt combined-heat-and-power units, which produce a combined 10,000 megawatt hours of energy.
KiOR Inc. has published its third quarter financial results, reporting increased production at its Columbus, Miss., plant. During the quarter, KiOR produced 324,000 gallons of cellulosic fuel, up approximately 150 percent from the previous quarter.
The Huckabay Ridge anaerobic digestion facility in Stephenville, Texas, is scheduled to be offered for sale at auction on Nov. 21. EM Biogas LLC has engaged Maas Companies Inc. to manage the sale.
Waste fuels are a major source of fuel for U.S. manufacturers, accounting for 29 percent of fuel in 2010, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Agriculture waste, mill residue and wood waste accounted for 33 percent of that amount.
Bushels being binned in the corn harvest now well underway are forecast to hit a record 13.989 billion bushels, up 146 million bushels higher than the last report. Total corn supplies are also projected to hit a record.
Green Gas has acquired Lime Energy's 2.8 megawatt (MW) landfill-gas-to-energy project located in Charlotte County, Fla., through the acquisition of Lime Energy's subsidiary, GES-Port Charlotte LLC, which owns the project.
The U.K. Department of Energy and Climate Change has released updated energy trend statistics, showing that 1.55 million metric tons of oil equivalent fuel was used by the bioenergy sector to produce electricity during the second quarter of 2013.
Massachusetts is enticing residents, businesses and public agencies to reduce emissions and heating and cooling costs by making $32 million available to seven programs that will fund renewable heating and cooling projects.
Researchers have developed a new butanol process that promises to convert 94 percent of the available carbon in biomass, including carbon dioxide, for a greenhouse gas reduction of more than 100 percent at a cost of less than $2 per gallon.
Gevo Inc. has released its third quarter financial results, reporting progress with isobutanol production at its Luverne, Minn., plant and with its paraxylene demonstration facility and biobased jet fuel process.
Three Rivers Energy LLC, a newly restarted ethanol plant in ethanol plant in Coshocton, Ohio, is the latest to sign a commercial agreement to use Syngenta's Enogen corn. The plant was started up by Lakeview Energy LLC.
Gevo Inc. has released its third quarter financial results, reporting progress with isobutanol production at its Luverne, Minn., plant and with its paraxylene demonstration facility and biobased jet fuel process.
Researchers have developed a new butanol process that promises to convert 94 percent of the available carbon in biomass, including carbon dioxide, for a greenhouse gas reduction of more than 100 percent at a cost of less than $2 per gallon.
A new paper from two Iowa State University economists concludes that an American Petroleum Institute study predicting higher fuel prices as the result of increased renewable fuel standard (RFS) ethanol mandates is flawed.
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