Neste announced the rebranding of its renewable diesel fuel a recent customer seminar and appreciation event. Neste replaces its "Neste Renewable Diesel" and earlier brand name "NEXBTL" with "Neste MY Renewable Diesel" brand name.
To unravel how intricate waste biomass converts to biofuels, a Cornell professor studied Clostridium acetobutylicum to decipher its metabolism. Understanding the bacterium's sugar-processing complexities may lead to improved biofuel yields.
Stakeholders, including the states of Kansas and Nebraska, joined the Urban Air Initiative and the Energy Future Coalition as they petitioned the U.S. EPA to correct the agency's flawed models that limit the use of higher blends of ethanol.
On Jan. 27, officials from GE Water & Process Technologies, the Ontario, Canada-based University of Guelph, and the Canadian government gathered to celebrate the grand opening of a pilot facility that aims to improve wastewater treatment.
UNICA, the Brazilian sugarcane industry association, has announced plants in the south-central region of the country processed 1.18 million tons of sugarcane during the first half of January, producing 67.81 million liters of ethanol.
The past year has been a time of considerable progress for the biogas industry.
In an effort to reduce odors and move the city closer to producing energy from the its landfill, the city of Lebanon, new Hampshire, installed an active GCCS system.
Europe needs a realistic mix of renewable energy solutions—including low-emission options such as sustainably produced European ethanol—if it wants to achieve its goal of decarbonizing EU transport, according to speakers at a debate Wednesday.
The U.S. Grains Council has published the first two of its annual reports on corn and sorghum harvest quality, reporting that U.S. farmers produced an estimated 387 million metric tons of corn in 2016, along with 12 million metric tons of sorghum.
Producing a range of end products from a seemingly endless list of resources, methane-based energy project development is picking up in the country.
Covanta Energy Inc.'s 58–MW waste-to-energy plant in Dublin, Ireland, is on track for first-fire in March. Staffing of the plant is nearly complete, and the facility is currently undergoing commissioning.
In January, Velocys plc, a developer of smaller-scale gas-to-liquids (GTL) plants, announced strategic alliances with Morimatsu (Jiangsu) Heavy Industry Co. Ltd. and ThermoChem Recovery International Inc.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers are developing a reactor that uses torrefaction technology to densify biomass, making it transportable and increasing its shelf life. The technology aims to benefit smallholder farms.
Last fall, the Renewable Fuels Association announced it would co-sponsor the Crappie Masters Tournament Trail in an effort to educate boaters, conservation enthusiasts and consumers about ethanol. The first of 19 tournaments begins Jan. 27.
Europeans overwhelmingly support the use of conventional biofuels made from crops and believe EU policy should encourage it, according to a recent EU-wide opinion survey.
In early January, the USDA Economic Research Service published a report, titled “Dedicated Energy Crops and Competition for Agricultural Land,� that examines three policy scenarios that could create a market for bioelectricity using switchgrass.
In early January, the USDA Economic Research Service published a report, titled “Dedicated Energy Crops and Competition for Agricultural Land,� that examines three policy scenarios that could create a market for bioelectricity using switchgrass.
DuPont Industrial Biosciences has been awarded a grant from the European Commission to demonstrate high-efficiency enzyme production to increase biogas yields as part of the DEMETER project.
Ethanol Producer Magazine's Editor in Chief shares his thoughts on the incoming adminstration, and comments on features in his Editor's Note that appears in the February print edition.
The Renewable Fuels Association has scheduled a training course to help ethanol plants meet the requirements of the Food Safety Modernization Act. This class is designed for personnel overseeing a facility's food safety plan.
Wastewater treatment plants face challenges treating their biosolids, but there are solutions to achieve maximum value in an evolving market.
The U.S. Energy Information Agency released its Annual Energy Outlook for 2017, providing modeled projections that indicate with strong domestic production and relatively flat demand, the U.S. becomes a net energy exporter in the projection period.
Microbe Detectives LLC recently announced a microbiome study aimed at creating new insights on how to improve biogas anaerobic digester performance, based on data collected this spring from 50 biogas/digester systems.
Air Products is part of a consortium that recently took part in the inaugural ceremony of the Shikaoi Hydrogen Farm, a hydrogen production supply facility derived from livestock biomass waste located in Hokkaido, Japan.
Half of U.S. states blended more than 10 percent ethanol, RFA's president and CEO points out in his View from the Hill column for the February print edition of Ethanol Producer magazine.
St1, a Finnish energy company, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Ubon Bio Ethanol to launch a pilot project of the production of bioethanol from cassava waste, with the aim of setting up a joint venture for ethanol production in Thailand.
Ethanol industry advocates believe the Trump administration will be friendlier to ethanol than the previous one. This article appears in the February print edition of Ethanol Producer Magazine.
The rule to set 2014 volume obligations under the renewable fuel standard (RFS) is among 30 recent rules published by the U.S. EPA set to be temporarily delayed in order to allow for additional review by the Trump administration.
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey announced that Charlie Good from Good & Quick in Nevada and Richard Weiner from Cartersville Elevator Inc. in Nora Springs are the 2017 winners of the Secretary's Ethanol and Biodiesel Marketing Awards.
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