biofuel feedstock News
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Mission Petitions US Regulator for RFS2 Approval of its g-Palm Biodiesel
Mission NewEnergy Limited (Nasdaq:MNEL) (ASX:MBT), a global provider of environmentally sustainable biofuels, has announced the in-house development of an improved palm oil supply chain process called “Mission g-Palm" that maximizes green house gas savings when producing g-Palm Biodiesel. Mission has petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for ...
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Mission Signs Biodiesel Contract with Global Oil Major
Mission NewEnergy Limited (Nasdaq:MNEL)(ASX:MBT), a global provider of energy from renewable sources and one of the world’s largest Jatropha plantation companies, is pleased to announce that it has signed a contract to supply sustainability-certified biodiesel to a global oil major. The six month contract will commence in January 2012 and is expected to ...
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Biofuels goals `may lead to food shortages`
Parts of the developing world, particularly India and countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, will suffer food shortages if their planned biofuels targets are implemented by 2020, a study has warned. The study, which looked at 25 countries and geographical regions, including Latin American and the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa and the United States, found that the targets will also affect national ...
By SciDev.Net
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EPA seeks comments on GHG analysis of sugar beets for biofuel feedstock
On January 18, 2017, Christopher Grundler, the Director of the Office of Transportation and Air Quality for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), signed a notice inviting comment on its analysis of the upstream greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the production of sugar beets for use as biofuel feedstock. The notice describes the analysis performed, which considers the extraction of ...
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Time to consider investing in fuel-saving technologies
T&E's Nusa Urbancic writes in today's Financial Times: Sir, Your special report on oil and gas (March 21) highlighted renewed investor interest in biofuels and tar sand oil following recent rises in the oil price. But it failed to mention California’s low-carbon fuel standard or the European Union’s revised fuel quality directive, two recent regulatory developments that will have ...
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Boeing, Air New Zealand, Rolls-Royce Plan Bio-jet Fuel Flight Demo
SEATTLE, Washington, September 28, 2007 (ENS) - A biofuel jet flight demonstration is in the planning stages, aircraft manufacturer Boeing, carrier Air New Zealand and engine maker Rolls-Royce said today. The joint project is designed to help accelerate the development of sustainable alternative fuels for commercial aviation, the three companies said. The demonstration flight is planned for ...
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Former US Presidential Economic Advisor Patrick O’Brien Named to Advisory Board of Mission NewEnergy Limited
Mission NewEnergy Limited (Nasdaq:MNEL) (ASX:MBT), a global provider of environmentally sustainable biofuels, has named Patrick O’Brien, a retired senior US Department of Agriculture Director and Presidential Commission economist, to its Advisory Board. The appointment was announced by Mission’s Advisory Board Chairman Major General Wilbert D. ...
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U.S. EPA recognizes Kuehnle AgroSystems for innovative algae biofuel work
U.S. EPA Regional Administrator Jared Blumenfeld recognized Kuehnle AgroSystems today for the company’s innovative work in producing algae for use in biofuels as part of the Pacific Southwest region’s environmental awards program. “EPA is pleased to recognize Kuehnle AgroSystems for its innovative techniques that can turn a tank of algae into a tank of gas,” Blumenfeld ...
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Breakthrough in quest to turn seaweed into biofuels
Brown seaweed's potential as a vast source of biofuels has been highlighted with the announcement that scientists have found a way of converting all its major sugars into ethanol. A team reported in Science today (19 January) that it has engineered a microbe that will convert the sugars to ethanol, overturning one of the main obstacles to making the use of brown macroalgae, or seaweed, as a ...
By SciDev.Net
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Nearly 100 NREL staff to discuss innovation at WREF 2012
Nearly 100 renewable energy experts from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE)’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have been selected to present at this year’s World Renewable Energy Forum (WREF) to be held in Denver, Colo., on May 13-17, at the Colorado Convention Center. NREL’s Director, Dan Arvizu, opens the conference as a keynote speaker at the May 14 plenary ...
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Greenbelt Resources Offers Commercial-Scale Feedstock Testing
The transition from a promising bench-scale lab concept with minimum funding, to obtaining funding to prove out a feedstock in a full-scale operation, often requires a creative solution to reduce feasibility testing costs and technologies. Many concepts, like new methods of processing a feedstock into biofuel, never make it to market because commercial-scale proof-of-concept testing is out of ...
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FAO calls for review of biofuel policies and subsidies
Biofuel policies and subsidies should be urgently reviewed in order to preserve the goal of world food security, protect poor farmers, promote broad-based rural development and ensure environmental sustainability, FAO said in a new edition of its annual flagship publication The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) 2008. “Biofuels present both opportunities and risks. The outcome would depend on ...
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World Biofuels Report
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: World Biofuels Report http://www.reportlinker.com/p01094728/World-Biofuels-Report.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=Fuel_Additive This new biofuels market research report looks at the global Biofuels industry now and the predictions for future growth and development. ...
By ReportLinker
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NREL researcher discusses revitalized algae program
Dr. Philip Pienkos, Principal Research Supervisor at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), will discuss NREL’s efforts to rebuild the Aquatic Species Program for algal biofuels research on July 7, from 3-5 p.m., at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities Campus. The presentation is free, open to the public, and will also be broadcast online at ...
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Analyzing long-term impacts of biofuel on the land
The growing development and implementation of renewable biofuel energy has considerable advantages over using declining supplies of fossil fuels. However, meeting the demands of a fuel-driven society may require utilizing all biofuel sources including agricultural crop residues. While a useful biofuel source, crop residues also play a crucial role in maintaining soil organic carbon stock. This ...
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RFA: Biogas may have more potential than UCO as an alternative fuel
Biofuel made from used cooking oil remains a “niche” product but biogas could have much more scope, says an industry expert. Revealed in the Renewable Fuels Agency report Year One of the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation for 2008/09, just over 12 per cent of the biofuel supplied to fuel manufacturers in the UK is made from wastes and by-products, such as used cooking oil (UCO), tallow – animal ...
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Project Seeks Cropping Systems that Profit Farmers, Provide Food and Fuel and Scrub Carbon Out of the Air
Cropping systems that are profitable for farmers and balance societal needs for food, feed, fuel, energy and clean air and water are the focus and challenge of Iowa State University’s Landscape Biomass Project. “My dad always said there is no reason that driving your car should not make the air cleaner, and there’s no reason that you should have to feel bad about turning on a ...
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Biofuels: Many Possibilities To Decarbonise Transport
Since the turn of the millennium, virtually all of the UK’s industrial sectors have been on a consistent trajectory of reducing emissions, all aside from transport, whose emissions reduction has flatlined over the last 10 years. This is not through a lack of available technology: options certainly exist that could play big roles in decarbonising the transport sector, but many have yet to be ...
By NNFCC Ltd.
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Biofuel policies in OECD countries costly and ineffective, says report
Government support of biofuel production in OECD countries is costly, has a limited impact on reducing greenhouse gases and improving energy security, and has a significant impact on world crop prices, according to a new study of policies to promote greater production and use of biofuel in OECD countries. OECD’s Economic Assessment of Biofuel Support Policies says biofuels are currently highly ...
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EPA Identifies Additional Qualifying Renewable Fuel Pathways under the RFS Program
On March 5, 2013, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published in the Federal Register an important final rule certifying additional fuel pathways that meet the biomass-based diesel, advanced biofuel, or cellulosic biofuel lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction requirements under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Program. The final rule describes EPA's evaluation of advanced ...
By Acta Group
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