A recently issued U.S. patent, the culmination of more than five years of lab-scale and pilot-plant research at Texas Tech University, provides simplicity and holds great promise for economical, large-scale biodiesel production.
Viesel Fuel, in collaboration with Novozymes and Tactical Fabrication, has developed and implemented a biodiesel production process using enzymes to produce at a rate of 5 MMgy. The company says its process can be easily scaled to larger capacities.
As federal biodiesel policy uncertainty rises, low-cost biodiesel production with new technologies to allow processing of cheaper, lower quality feedstocks, is paramount. Biodiesel Magazine provides a cross-section of new technologies being deployed.
Hero BX has combined Desmet Ballestra and Arisdyne technologies, along with a modified filtration system, in an attempt to increase its biodiesel production capacity, optimize efficiencies and improve the quality of its final product.
Under EPA's controversial proposed rulemaking for 2014 RFS volumes, 366 million advanced biofuel RINs may have to be demoted in 2014 RIN carryovers for use toward the general renewable category, Nick Paulson with farmdocDaily wrote in a recent post.
U.S. biodiesel production hit a record high in October, according to the Energy Information Administration. New EIA figures show 132 million gallons of biodiesel was produced in October, up from around 127 million gallons the month before.
The solicitation from the CEC was designed to provide funding for the development of commercial-scale, California-based biofuels production facilities that can sustainably produce at least 15 MMgy of low carbon transportation fuels.
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Biodiesel production at Methes Energies' Sombra, Ontario, Canada, facility for September, October and November was greater than its production for all of FY 2012. The fiscal Q4 also outpaced any quarter in its history, bringing record Q4 revenues.
The Iowa Renewable Fuels Association announced speakers that will address expansion of the biodiesel market through policy initiatives and broader distribution networks at the 8th Annual Iowa Renewable Fuels Summit and Trade Show Jan. 28.
BDI-BioEnergy International AG announced that it has completed commissioning of the largest multifeedstock biodiesel plant in France, Estener's 75,000 ton (22.5 MMgy) plant in Le Havre. BDI stated it completed the project on schedule in 11 months.
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.
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.
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.
Biodiesel distributor Whole Energy opens its new glycerin refinery in Mount Vernon, Wash.
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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.
Patriot 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.
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.
On 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.
Biodiesel Magazine is in the midst of its most comprehensive outreach effort to date for our printed 2014 U.S. and Canada Biodiesel Plant Map.
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.
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.
Methes Energies International Ltd. announced Nov. 5 that 18 rail cars were shipped out of its Sombra, Ontario, biodiesel facility last month, totaling more than 485,000 gallons. This surpasses its previous record of eight rail cars shipped in April.
Using microwaves and strontium oxide (SrO) catalyst, Bar-llan University (Israel) chemistry professor Aharon Gedanken, also a visiting chair professor at NCKU in Taiwan, said he's developed a process to convert UCO into biodiesel in 10 seconds.
REG sold 77.6 million gallons of biodiesel in Q3, an increase of 26 percent compared to Q3 in 2012. Revenues of $458.4 million increased 42 percent year over year. REG achieved adjusted EBITDA of $48.9 million and gross profit of $57.8 million.
Methes Energies Canada makes headway on record production volumes, the BQ-9000 accreditation process, selecting a RIN QAP provider, selling its processors, and doubling production at its Sombra plant
Renewable Energy Group Inc. held a ribbon cutting ceremony to formally open its recently acquired 30 MMgy biodiesel refinery in Mason City, Iowa, and announced it has begun a $20 million project to upgrade the plant to a multifeedstock facility.
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