On May 21, Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad advanced support for the biodiesel industry signing into law an extension of the state's biodiesel producer incentive structured as a 2 cent per-gallon refundable credit for the first 25 million gallons produced.
Under the terms of the agreement, an REG subsidiary would acquire Tyson Foods' 50-percent membership interest in Dynamic Fuels by paying Tyson approximately $18 million in cash at closing and up to $35 million in future payments.
The Water Environment Research Foundation has selected Drexel University to perform research that will monitor and quantify the composition of waste greases to improve knowledge about the feasibility of grease-to-biodiesel processes.
The platform developed at Michigan State University uses microbes to glean ethanol from glycerol and has the added benefit of cleaning up wastewater, allowing producers to utilize ethanol, instead of fossil-based methanol, for chemical reaction.
Maas Companies will auction a surplus 1.5 MMgy biodiesel equipment package and a 250 kilowatt Cat Generator/Cogen System June 19 through a timed online auction ending at 5 p.m. The equipment is surplus to BioPur and BioPur Light & Power.
After years of talk, co-location of biodiesel production at ethanol plants is finally being realized.
Glycerolysis on high-FFA, low-grade feedstock at varying temperatures will result in the same end product, but higher heat will triple throughput.
UOP announced the 130 MMgy Diamond Green Diesel facility, a joint venture of Darling International and Diamond Alternative Energy, a subsidiary of Valero, achieved all of its performance and quality targets using UOP/Eni's Ecofining technology.
Biodiesel producers and advocates joined a group of U.S. senators at a press conference May 14, calling for Congress and the administration to act quickly to restore the industry's progress by supporting a strong RFS and reinstating the tax credit.
Under the MOU, the two companies will perform joint biofuel research, in addition to funding and coordinating research with Brazilian universities and other institutions. The research will focus on technologies that address supply chain gaps.
The research project, presented by Biodico Vice President of R&D Trey Teall, focused upon the use of FT-NIRS to provide real-time in-situ analysis of the biodiesel production process as an alternative to conventional ASTM biodiesel methodology.
Flint Hills Resources will begin retrofitting the Beatrice, Neb., biodiesel plant for a planned commencement of operations during the summer of 2015. Once the Duonix Beatrice plant is operational, it will produce approximately 50 MMgy of biodiesel.
Mike Erhart, CEO of Prairie Horizon Agri-Energy, announced the formation of a partnership with WB Services LLC to expand its biofuels footprint by integrating a 3 MMgy renewable diesel production facility into the existing 40 MMgy ethanol plant.
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced a court order requiring a biodiesel production facility to implement new operating procedures and install equipment designed to prevent overflows of contaminating substances after a soybean oil spill.
An update on recent biodiesel-related developments in Argentina
The legislation, a producer incentive in the form of a 2-cent-per-gallon refundable credit on the first 25 million gallons of biodiesel produced in any single plant, extends the credit, set to expire at the end of this year, through 2017.
Two community-scale producers, one in South Carolina and the other in California, find success in troubling times
Renewable Energy Group announced April 21 it has reached a new milestone, having sold a cumulative 1 billion gallons of advanced biofuel during its 17-year history. The firm says investments in a fully integrated value chain has made this possible.
Portugal-based biodiesel technology provider IncBio announced it has completed construction of an 8,000 ton per year (2.4 MMgy) biodiesel plant and has delivered the unit to Biokast Energy S.A., to be installed in Tunis, Tunisia, in North Africa.
This month, the mayor of New Zealand's capital city of Wellington, Celia Wade-Brown, welcomed an announcement by Z Energy of the company's plans to invest $21 million in a 20 MMly (5.3 MMgy) biodiesel production facility using tallow as feedstock.
While overall global biofuel production fell in 2012 for the first time since 2000, biodiesel production rose slightly, according to a recent Worldwatch Institute report.
Biodiesel equipment manufacturer Springboard Biodiesel is offering a free webinar on Earth Day, April 22, titled, "The Many Benefits of Small-Scale Biodiesel Production." Topics will include strategies for production, biodiesel myths and much more.
Portugal-based biodiesel technology provider Incbio announced it has secured an agreement to supply a 55,000 ton per year (16.5 MMgy) biodiesel plant for an undisclosed South American client. Incbio expects the plant to be complete by December.
Lignol Energy Corp. signed an MOU between M Energy Co. Ltd. establishing the framework by which the two companies will work together to restart LEC's 140 MMly (37 MMgy) biodiesel plant and incorporate M Energy's proprietary pretreatment technology.
Pacific Biodiesel was notified by the county that continuing the current operation would require multiple permits and extensive upgrades to comply with new requirements. With two years left on its contract, the firm couldn't justify the expenses.
Springboard Biodiesel has donated a BioPro 380 processing unit to the Center for Sustainable Energy Farming, a Torrance, Calif.-based nonprofit research organization. The BioPro 380 can make 100 gallons of biodiesel in 48 hours from a variety of FOG.
Florida Biodiesel Inc. recently announced it has completed sale of a B-500 biodiesel plant to the Lorymat Corp. in Ivory Coast, Africa. The company has chosen the B-500 biodiesel processor for its primary transesterification facility.
The Biofuels Isoconversion process seamlessly processes renewable feedstocks such as plant oils, tallow and waste vegetable oil into 100 percent drop-in diesel and jet fuels, as well as naphtha that can be used as a gasoline blend stock.
California is a symptom and an example of a new phenomenon: the fact that climate change, greenhouse gases and massive ice melts, storms and droughts are worldwide events that only an international solution can address. Biofuels offer a solution.
BiodieselMagazine.com gets a facelift, new online plant map and additional functions
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