Biodiesel Production

10 hours ago

Amyris, Total form Total Amyris BioSolutions joint venture

BY Amyris Inc. Amyris and Total have formed Total Amyris BioSolutions B.V., a 50/50 joint venture that now holds exclusive rights and a license under Amyris' intellectual property to produce and market renewable diesel and jet fuel from Amyris' renewable farnesene. READ MORE

11 hours ago

Methes signs LOI to acquire assets of OTC Energy Technologies

BY Methes Energies International Ltd. Methes Energies International has signed a letter of intent to acquire the assets of OTC Energy Technologies, including all of OTC's technologies and know-how relating to conversion of biomass into syngas for reforming into alcohols and hydrocarbons. READ MORE

December 06, 2013

Greenleaf Biofuels hits production milestone at New Haven plant

BY Greenleaf Biofuels LLC Greenleaf Biofuels LLC announced in December that, as of Oct. 31, the company produced its 1 millionth gallon of biodiesel. In commercial production at its New Haven, Conn., terminal location since this summer, reaching this milestone was a key goal. READ MORE

November 26, 2013

JV acquires control of former Inland Empire Oilseeds plant

BY TransMessis Columbia Plateau LLC TransMessis Columbia Plateau LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of TransMessis Renewable Energy Inc., has closed an approximately $6 million restructuring of the integrated canola crushing and biodiesel production operation in Odessa, Wash. READ MORE

November 25, 2013

Patriot ethanol plant adding Jatrodiesel biodiesel process unit

BY Ron KotrbaPatriot Renewable Fuels, a 120 MMgy ethanol plant in Annawan, Ill., will be installing a new supercritical biodiesel processing unit from Miamisburg, Ohio-based Jatrodiesel to convert its distillers corn oil into 5 MMgy of biodiesel. READ MORE

November 18, 2013

Tri-State, LARD purchase Bridgeport Biodiesel; upgrades planned

BY Tri-State Biodiesel New York City-based Tri-State Biodiesel and its parent company, The Sustainable Biodiesel Company, have partnered with New Jersey-based Lard-NABF LLC to purchase and upgrade the Connecticut-based biodiesel production business, Bridgeport Biodiesel. READ MORE

November 15, 2013

Cavitation Technologies secures new biodiesel-related US patent

BY Ron KotrbaOn Nov. 14, Cavitation Technologies Inc. announced that its U.S. patent application, titled, "Process for Producing Biodiesel through Lower Molecular Weight Alcohol-Targeted Cavitation," has been approved for patent issuance. READ MORE

November 11, 2013

Ill. ethanol plant to co-locate biodiesel production on-site

BY Adkins Energy LLC Adkins Energy LLC has been awarded a $500,000 Rural Energy for America Program grant to begin construction on a $4.5 million biodiesel plant on the east side of its Lena, Ill., campus. The 2 MMgy facility is expected to begin production spring 2014. READ MORE

November 08, 2013

Creating bio-oil from wood chips a reality at Battelle

BY Batelle Battelle has developed a mobile device that transforms unwanted biomass materials such as wood chips or agricultural waste into valuable bio-oil using catalytic pyrolysis. The unit converts one ton of wood waste into 130 gallons of bio-oil per day. READ MORE