bioethanol production News
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HPD Awarded Design-Build Project for Abengoa Bioenergy in Rotterdam, The Netherlands
BILBAO, Spain, June 23, 2008 – HPD has been awarded the design-build project for the evaporation system for Abengoa Bioenergy’s new bioethanol plant in the port of Rottderdam in the Netherlands. The new facility will produce 480 million litres (126 million gallons) renewable fuel per year and will be one of the single largest production sites in Europe.The stillage evaporation system supplied by ...
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Confirmed speakers from 32 countries from all continents
World Bioenergy is truly a global event. There are confirmed speakers from 32 countries from all continents, and a couple more may be added in the coming days. An example of the many speakers from outside Europe is Abbas Almodares from University of Isfahan in Iran. He will speak about bioethanol production from dried sweet sorghum stalks. Professor Almodares is an expert on sorghum, a plant ...
By Elmia AB
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Confirmed speakers from 32 countries from all continents
World Bioenergy is truly a global event. There are confirmed speakers from 32 countries from all continents, and a couple more may be added in the coming days. An example of the many speakers from outside Europe is Abbas Almodares from University of Isfahan in Iran. He will speak about bioethanol production from dried sweet sorghum stalks. Professor Almodares is an expert on sorghum, a plant ...
By Elmia AB
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Unintended energy impact from bioethanol production
Increasing crop production to meet demand for biofuels potentially increases the use of nitrogen fertilisers, which can lead to nitrate pollution in surface and groundwater. A new study is the first to consider the unintended extra energy needed to treat water to remove nitrate contamination in drinking water supplies. In the United States, the Renewable Fuel Standard1 (RFS) stipulates the ...
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The Focus-Abengoa Foundation celebrates the 32nd edition of the Focus-Abengoa Prizes
The ceremony was chaired by Felipe Benjumea Llorente, Chairman of the Focus-Abengoa Foundation and Abengoa, and was attended by Juan Ignacio Zoido, Mayor of Sevilla, and Anabel Morillo León, Director General of the Foundation. The winners of the thirty-second edition of the Focus-Abengoa Prizes come from the different geographic areas where Abengoa operates and, all together, have ...
By Abengoa
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Vivergo Fuels Bioethanol Plant Proposes Ceasing Production
Today, we regret to announce that given the continued difficult trading environment and delays in the implementation of E10 in the UK over time, Vivergo Fuels Ltd proposes to cease production. Mark Chesworth, Managing Director, Vivergo Fuels Ltd, commented: “I am extremely disappointed at having to announce the proposed cessation of production as of the 30 September 2018 at the Vivergo ...
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Josè moreira, director cenbio – Brazilian national biomass reference centre, Brasil
Will deliver his speech with the title 'The Brazilian biomass challenge – how the biomass sector in Brazil developed and where it is targeting to'. The message from Russia will be delivered by Sergey Mazurenko, Head of Federal Agency for Science and Innovations Russia. Sergey Mazurenko will give an insight into the Russian Research and present the latest developments in the bioenergy sector. In ...
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Biofuels (Biodiesel and Bioethanol) Market - Global Production, Regulations, Export-Import Analysis and Key Country Analysis to 2020
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Biofuels (Biodiesel and Bioethanol) Market - Global Production, Regulations, Export-Import Analysis and Key Country Analysis to 2020 ...
By ReportLinker
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Biofuels (Biodiesel and Bioethanol) Market - Global Production, Regulations, Export-Import Analysis and Key Country Analysis to 2020
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Biofuels (Biodiesel and Bioethanol) Market - Global Production, Regulations, Export-Import Analysis and Key Country Analysis to 2020 ...
By ReportLinker
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CENER (Spain) to Acquire Equipment for Biomass Pretreatment Research
AdvanceBio Systems, LLC today announced that the National Renewable Energy Centre of Spain (CENER) selected, in a global competitive bidding process, AdvanceBio Systems' SuPR2G Bench Scale Pretreatment Reactor to conduct basic research and development work, related to the production of fermentable sugars from lignocellulose rich biomass feedstocks. "CENER and AdvanceBio Systems intend to ...
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Vivergo Response to Government`s Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation Proposals
Mark Chesworth, Managing Director at Vivergo Fuels, the UK’s largest producer of bioethanol reluctantly welcomed the Government’s Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation proposals: “Whilst we welcome the Government raising the renewable blending obligation and their increasing the recommended crop cap to an initial 4%, indicating that they have taken on board some of the concerns ...
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Carbon Expo 2009, the world’s largest climate change fair, neutralized its emissions by 148 tons of CO2 equivalent
GARRIGUES MEDIO AMBIENTE, the GARRIGUES environmental consulting firm, was in charge of offsetting the emissions inventory during this event. For this purpose, the electric power and natural gas consumption of the all of the facilities used throughout the stages of setting up, holding and dismantling the fair, as well as the fossil fuels used for running the equipment and the fluorinated gases ...
By ACCIONA S.A
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Oil Price Pressure Driving Global Switch to Biofuels
Untitled Document ROME, Italy , April 25, 2006 (ENS) - Worldwide momentum is gathering for a major international switch from fossil fuels to renewable bioenergy, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today. The move is driven in part by record high oil prices, as oil jumped to an all-time high above $75 a barrel last week. “The gradual move away from oil has begun. ...
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Most extensive evaluation of ethanol vehicles and fuels ever – final report hot off the press
The European BEST project - Bioethanol for Sustainable Transport – has tested and evaluated ethanol vehicles and fuels during four years in eight countries, including China and Brazil. The brand new report shows that ethanol vehicles work well, have rapidly taken market share and make a significant contribution to saving the climate. Project coordinator Gustaf Landahl, City of Stockholm, ...
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Biofuel from Algae, Six Decades of Photosynthesis Research at UREM 2015 Conference, Day 3
Bioethanol may be successfully produced from genetically engineered algae, carbon dioxide and sunlight, Kerstin Baier of Algenol Biofuel Germany told the Umeå Renewable Energy Meeting on its third and final day 27 March. In fact, 4,000 photo bioreactors taking up two acres of land were turning out the very thing at the company’s "integrated" biorefinery at Fort Myers in Florida, ...
By Bio4Energy
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Mandelson welcomes world class advanced biofuel centre
A cutting-edge technology development centre planned for Hull will help to grow the UK’s economy and enhance its reputation as a world-class centre for innovation and research, Lord Mandelson said during a visit to the region today. Energy industry giant BP and sustainable science solutions company DuPont have joined forces to form Kingston Research Ltd, which will focus on the commercialisation ...
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Abengoa Announces DOE Offer of Conditional Commitment for $133.9 Million Loan Guarantee to Build Inaugural Biomass Plant in United States
Abengoa (MCE: ABG) today announced that its subsidiary, Abengoa Bioenergy, has been selected by the US Department of Energy's Loan Programs Office to receive an offer of a conditional commitment for a $133.9 million federal loan guarantee for the construction of its "first of a kind" commercial scale biorefinery facility to produce renewable liquid fuel from earth's most abundant organic ...
By Abengoa
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Vivergo Fuels Response to Royal Academy of Engineering Report
Vivergo Fuels has welcomed a number of findings in the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Sustainability of Liquid Biofuels report, including the statement that UK arable crops including wheat represent low-risk feedstock for first generation biofuels in terms of carbon emissions and should be promoted. Not only does UK wheat bioethanol exceed the 50% GHG savings target versus petrol, it ...
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Algenol Biofuels Inc. Announces Ground Breaking of Its Pilot-Scale Integrated Bio-Refinery in Lee County, Florida
Algenol Biofuels Inc. announces today that it has broken ground on the construction of its pilot-scale integrated bio-refinery. This production facility will be the first large-scale deployment of Algenol's patented Direct To Ethanol® technology, which produces ethanol directly from carbon dioxide, sunlight and salt water using blue-green algae in patented photobioreactors (or PBRs). With ...
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EU biofuels policy ‘not supported by science’
More than 150 scientists and economists have written to the Commission calling for it to recognise that biofuels production can have indirect impacts on land-use, and for the resulting emissions to be taken into account in assessing which biofuels help in the fight against global warming. The letter comes as one branch of the biofuels industry has broken away from the rest by saying it would ...
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