Biodiesel Week

US diesel car registrations up nearly 25 percent in past 3 years Diesel car and SUV registrations increased from 640,779 in 2010 to 796,794 at the end of 2012, a 24.34 percent increase. Hybrid car and SUV registrations increased more than 33 percent. Click on the story for a Top 10 States of Diesel Drivers visual. READ MORE SHARE
Indian researcher receives 2013 Glycerine Innovation Award The 2013 Award recipient is B.L.A. Prabhavathi Devi from the Centre for Lipid Research at CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, India. The researchers developed glycerol-based catalysts to replace traditional chemicals. READ MORE SHARE
	German rapper Smudo's bioconcept car to perform in 24-hour race Smudo presented the race car, equipped with innovative rapeseed-based biofuel and constructed from biocomposites and biopolymers, together with his team colleagues and UFOP on April 23 exclusively in Berlin. He will compete in the ADAC 24-hour race. READ MORE SHARE
Biodiesel producer Community Fuels gets BQ-9000 lab certification California-based Community Fuels, which operates a 13 MMgy biodiesel refinery in the Port of Stockton, recently earned BQ-9000 Laboratory certification, making it the first biodiesel producer in the nation to receive this third-party approval. READ MORE SHARE
Virent delivers test volumes of biojet fuel to US Air Force lab Testing will begin at Wright Patterson Air Force Base to validate Virent's fuel against the standards required for qualification and approval of new aviation turbine fuels established by ASTM. A $1.5M award from FAA was used to build its demo plant. READ MORE SHARE
CME Group launching biodiesel RINs futures contracts May 13 The new RINs contracts will be available for trading starting May 13, and will allow customers to hedge risk in biodiesel (D4), advanced biofuel (D5) and ethanol (D6). The contracts will be financially settled based on Argus Media's prices for RINs. READ MORE SHARE
	SeQuential-Pacific supply chain enlists prominent Seattle names CenturyLink Field, Pike Place Market, Safeco Field, Taco Time Corp. and the University of Washington are partnering with SeQuential-Pacific Biodiesel to recycle used cooking oil into clean-burning biodiesel, creating a closed-loop production cycle. READ MORE SHARE
Methanex to relocate 2nd methanol plant from Chile to Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and Methanex VP Gary Rowan announced Methanex Corp. will relocate a second methanol plant from Chile to a 225-acre site in Geismar, La. In July 2012, Methanex announced it was moving a separate plant from Chile to Ascension Parish. READ MORE SHARE
Los Alamos National Lab improves biomass-to-fuel process An April Nature Chemistry article describes how to take building blocks that are derived from glucose or cellulose and couple them with other bioderived building blocks to give new molecules that have eight to 15 carbons in a row. READ MORE SHARE
National Association of Shell Marketers partners with RINAlliance The National Association of Shell Marketers and RINAlliance have partnered for RFS solutions. NASM is a brand-specific trade association representing business interests of petroleum marketers with wholesale contracts for Shell-branded products. READ MORE SHARE