Firefighters battled a major ethanol blaze stemming from an Oct. 7 train derailment just outside Tiskilwa in rural northwest Illinois received assistance from two nearby ethanol plants in the form of fire-fighting foam.
Recently released U.S. Census figures show the number of households heating with wood grew 34 percent between 2000 and 2010, faster than any other heating fuel. Electricity showed the second fastest growth, with a 24 percent increase.
Eastern Illinois University has commissioned a biomass gasification energy system that will annually consume about 27,000 tons of wood chips to provide heat and electricity to the campus.
Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus spoke at the Mississippi State University's 6th annual biofuels conference last week. Mabus, who served as governor of Mississippi from 1988 to 1992, spoke about Mississippi's future in the biorefining sector.
Highlands EnviroFuels LLC received its air permit as well completed an economic impact study, moving the Lake Placid, Fla ethanol project forward. Sugarcane and sweet sorghum feedstocks will be supplied by nine grower investors.
RFA and the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, issued a joint statement from the RFA's annual meeting in Washington, D.C., asserting the two groups' commitments to implementing renewable fuel technologies.
Corn Plus faces charges regarding emissions equipment
October 07, 2011
Corn Plus LLLP, Winnebago, Minn., is facing charges that it violated the Clean Air Act by providing false information regarding its pollution control equipment to the U.S. EPA in January.
Biomass Power Developers are Busy Generating Jobs
By Rona Johnson
October 07, 2011
In some areas of the country, people are finally starting to realize the potential for biomass plants to create jobs. I say this because of all the news of project developers starting construction, breaking ground or just announcing their projects.
A coalition of seven ethanol and agricultural organizations responded swiftly in opposition to a bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, that seeks to link the corn supply to the RFS requirements for corn ethanol.
The new yeast is highly efficient at fermenting xylose, and is also highly resistant to fermentation-inhibiting substances like acetic acid. Toyota is also developing technologies for the various processes involved in cellulosic ethanol processing.
Researchers from the University of Montana in Missoula have received $1.1 million to study various aspects of woody biomass feedstocks, technology and economics.
The Port St. Joe, Fla., City Commission unanimously approved Rentech Inc.'s Northwest Florida Renewable Energy Center at its meeting Oct. 4, after a 3.5-hour comment period that included 27 speakers.
Chromatin Inc., a biomass supplier with operations in California, and Constellation Energy, a power company headquartered in Maryland, have agreed to study the feasibility of burning sorghum as an alternative fuel at two power plants in California.
More than 250 people turned out for the groundbreaking ceremony of Burgess BioPower, formerly known as the Berlin Station, in Berlin, N.H., Oct. 6, including New Hampshire's governor and the city's mayor.
Professor Robert Brown says the bio-oil consisted of two primary components: the soluble sugars, and what he refers to as phenolic oligomers, similar to the pyrolytic lignin that's often described in the water insoluble components found in bio-oil.
U.S. Navy completes biofuel aircraft test No. 7
October 06, 2011
If advanced biofuels test flights were any indication of a U.S. department's commitment to renewable fuels, then the Navy would be winning. In the span of two months, it ran test flights using camelina-based jet fuel in several different aircraft.
An inflamed response to my FAME Forum biodiesel blog about Hawaii's public utilities commission denying HECO's 20-year offtake agreement for biomass-based diesel.
The International Energy Agency and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development again came out in favor of eliminating fossil fuel subsidies worldwide.
Old crop corn stocks are down more than 30 percent compared to a year ago, according to the USDA quarterly grain stocks report released Sept. 30. Those numbers are up, however, from previous predictions.
Minnesota-based General Mills was honored with the 2011 CPG Award for Innovation and Creativity by the Associate Member Council of the Grocery Manufacturers Association for its oat hull-to-energy biomass system.
Biorefining Magazine caught up with Pavel Molchanov, senior vice president and equity research analyst for Raymond James & Associates' energy group, to better understand the reasons for, and impacts of, the recent IPO craze in the biorefining sector.
BioSolar Inc. has announced that a significant number of Asian solar companies have received samples of its biobased backsheet and are actively evaluating the possibility of utilizing BioSolar's product in the manufacture of their solar panels.
Bisabolane is part of the terpene class of chemical compounds found in plants, and although traditionally used in fragrances and flavorings, a team of researchers at JBEI has discovered how to utilize bisabolane as an alternative to No. 2 diesel.
Arizona-based algae technology developer Heliae Inc. has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to produce algae-derived jet fuel for SkyNRG, an Amsterdam-based educator and marketer that focuses on the jet aviation industry.
The new yeast is highly efficient at fermenting xylose, and is also highly resistant to fermentation-inhibiting substances like acetic acid. Toyota is also developing technologies for the various processes involved in cellulosic ethanol processing.
A report produced by the National Research Council at the request of Congress claims the U.S. is likely to be unable to meet some specific biofuel mandates under RFS2 unless polices are changed or new innovative technologies are developed.
Corn oil extraction grows in popularity
October 04, 2011
Before I started writing about the ethanol industry, the phrase corn oil extraction might have conjured up images of me, inexpertly cooking Mexican food in sizzling corn oil. Today, I know better.
USGC project China bumper crop, corn imports to continue
By U.S. Grains Council
October 04, 2011
The U.S. Grains Council released estimates on Oct. 4 of a bumper corn crop in China of 167 million metric tons (6.6 billion bushels), an increase of approximately 9 million tons (3.54 million bushels) over last year.
A 423-page report from the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences released Oct. 4 concludes that it is unlikely the U.S. will meet cellulosic ethanol mandates in the renewable fuel standard (RFS) by 2022 without innovation.
Pinal Energy LLC has constructed a pilot plant next to its 50 MMgy corn/milo ethanol plant in Maricopa, Ariz., to test sweet sorghum production processes.
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