The relationship between biofuels and food prices is once again a topic of debate in Europe. The United Nations Committee on World Food Security kicked off its annual meeting on Oct. 7 in Rome, and biofuel policy is on the agenda.
The first blender pumps were installed in South Dakota nearly two decades ago, thanks to a helping hand from a South Dakota man and others.
Measuring current U.S. gasoline demand can be difficult, as there are 160,000 retail gasoline stations and more than 250 million vehicles in the country. However, ethanol blending offers a proxy to measure gas consumption.
UCLA develops metabolic pathway to convert sugars into biofuels
By University of California, Los Angeles
October 04, 2013
University of California, Los Angeles chemical engineering researchers have created a new synthetic metabolic pathway for breaking down glucose that could lead to a 50 percent increase in the production of biofuels.
ECI has begun the registration process to offer E15 to 2001 and newer vehicles in the Cedar Falls/Waterloo area in Iowa. "After reviewing the economics, offering E15 to 2001 and newer vehicles just makes sense for us," said Terry Grant of ECI.
UNICA, the sugarcane association of Brazil, has revised its sugarcane forecast for the 2013-'14 season, reducing the crush estimate by 0.44 percent, from 589.6 million metric tons to 587 million metric tons.
Petitions have been filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th circuit, requesting a rehearing en banc with regard to a recent ruling that determined that California's low carbon fuel standard program does not violate interstate commerce laws.
Big River Resources LLC and Prairie Gold Inc. have signed agreements forming a joint venture to produce corn zein proteins. The new venture, Big River Prairie Gold LLC will construct and operate a zein production facility near Galva, Ill.
Lignol Energy Corp. has released its unaudited consolidated financial results for its first fiscal quarter of 2014, the three months ended July 31. The company reported an operating loss of $980,000, up slightly from the same quarter of last year.
Butanol has a new ASTM International standard, intended for blends with gasoline at 1 to 12.5 percent volumes to be used as an automotive spark-ignition engine fuel. The new specification, ASTM D7862, covers three butanol isomers.
Edeniq Inc. announced it has received notice of allowance from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, protecting three targeted process applications. The new patent is entitled "Materials and Methods for Converting Biomass to Biofuel."
Brazil has made great strides in increasing its total energy production, particularly oil and ethanol. In a recent analysis, the U.S. Energy Information Administration noted that Brazil is the eighth largest energy consumer in the world.
BlueFire Renewables Inc. has integrated a synergistic wood pellet production plant to its facility in Fulton, Miss. The reconfigured design will be a 9 million gallon per year ethanol plant integrated with a 400,000 ton per year wood pellet plant.
Research shows it's now possible to prevent stress corrosion cracking without resorting to completely removing oxygen from ethanol, which is expensive to do. Sacrificial metals or inhibitors, for example, can be used.
The Iowa Renewable Fuels Association has released new testing data from vehicles driving in the real world that demonstrates Big Oil's earlier Coordinating Research Council testing on E15 has no real world implications.
The Renewable Fuels Association and Growth Energy are disputing the results of a new poll released by the American Petroleum Institute, calling the data biased and deceptive. The poll was conducted by Harris Interactive.
A second ethanol plant announced Oct. 1 it had agreed to purchase sugar through the Feedstock Flexibility Program for Bioenergy Producers. Pacific Ethanol Inc. joins Front Range Energy LLC in taking advantage of the program.
Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC, a biobutanol technology company, and Highwater Ethanol LLC, a producer of first-generation ethanol, have begun to retrofit Highwater's ethanol plant in Lamberton, Minn., for the production of biobutanol.
The Canadian government will invest $734,500 in a cellulosic ethanol project under development by Vanerco, a joint venture of Enerkem and GreenField, through Sustainable Development Technology Canada's Next Gen Biofuels Fund.
Proterro Inc. recently announced it has met key new development milestones. "We scaled up our novel photobioreactor design and conducted independent functionality tests that confirmed the unit's robustness," said Proterro CEO Kef Kasdin.
Nebraska-based Laurel BioComposite LLC recently moved into a newly constructed manufacturing facility, a fact celebrated during a Sept. 25 open house and ribbon cutting ceremony. The company's first production line is now operational.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration has released new statistics as part of its Monthly Energy Review outlining ethanol production and consumption data through June, showing that consumption increased during the first half of the year.
A representative of Big Oil recently made an offensive and ridiculous comment about the RFS.
Eco-Energy has announced additional growth to its global ethanol platform with the signing of a new multiyear marketing agreement with Heron Lake BioEnergy, located in Heron Lake, Minn. Eco-Energy now markets for 18 plants across North America.
The U.S. Grains Council is helping Japanese DDGS importers determine how to adapt to the low-oil distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) in their livestock rations and still maintain their current level of nutrient availability in their rations.
Sorghum lines underwent adaptation to be grown in temperate climates decades ago. Now, a University of Illinois researcher and his team have completed the first comprehensive genomic analysis of the molecular changes behind that adaptation.
Greenbelt Resources Corp. and its subsidiary Diversified Ethanol Corp. have announced their investment in a research effort with California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo focused on fermentation testing related to ethanol feedstocks.
Brazil's Agricultural Trade Office has filed its annual biofuels report with the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service's Global Agricultural Information Network, providing ethanol production, supply and demand forecasts for 2013 and 2014.
DuPont Pioneer experts warn that the environment will become increasingly ideal for ear molds if the weather brings cooler temperatures and periodic rains as we head into harvest.
U.K.-based Element Energy recently published a report finding that biofuels offer a more cost-effective way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the next 17 years, when compared to electric vehicles. The report was commissioned by BP.
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