Biomass News

Clariant, a sustainability-focused specialty chemical company, has announced that its MegaMax catalyst has been selected for a China biomass gasification-to-green methanol project. The plant will use a combination of farm waste and wind power to produce up to 250,000 tons per annum of green methanol in two phases by 2027. Construction of the first plant phase began in March 2024 and is expected…
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Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) developer Firefly Green Fuels has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Sanepar - one of Brazil’s largest water and sanitation companies. This strategic partnership enhances Firefly’s access to sustainable feedstock for biofuels production while expanding its footprint into the growing Brazilian and Latin American markets. Through this new…
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Unibep will invest €20.1 million in Zgorzelec, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, as part of a consortium with Energika Zbigniew Szamałek Sp. Komandytowa. This will be Unibep's fifth biomass heating plant. An agreement was signed on 20 November for the implementation of the project, entitled: "Integrated network for innovative transformation and decarbonisation of heating (UNITED HEAT),…
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Marubeni Corporation has completed construction of its Aichi Tahara Biomass Power Plant in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The plant is a wood-fired biomass plant with a generating capacity of 74,950 kW, and is expected to generate approximately 530 million kWh of electricity per year. Commercial operations are commencing today (26 November). Construction began in February 2022. To build the plant,…
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A group of Caribbean scientists and environmentalists are working to transform sargassum into biofuel, reported the BBC. In 2011, huge amounts of the seaweed entered Caribbean beaches - bringing a pungent odour as it rotted. Seven years later, Barbados' prime minister Mia Mottley said sargussum was a national emergency. The scientists recently launched one of the world's first vehicles fuelled…
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Waste-to-hydrogen producer Compact Syngas Solutions (CSS) will be creating 200kg of hydrogen from waste to power a 40-day sea trial of a zero-emission marine hydrogen engine. The 50kW hydrogen auxiliary engine was created by Carnot – which was recently awarded £2.3 million in a UK government grant to develop its technology. The engine will be tested at Brunel University before being mounted…
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Sarah Hammond, marketing manager at MoistTech, explains how automated in-line monitoring reduces waste and energy costs and improves process efficiency. Incorporating the right combination of automation tools can help production facilities overcome challenges posed by outdated machinery and labour-intensive procedures that hinder overall productivity. One key example is automated moisture…
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A research team led by Dr. Choi, Young-chan from the Clean Air Research Laboratory at the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) has successfully converted cashew nut shells, discarded during cashew nut food product manufacturing, into an eco-friendly biofuel. Producing biofuel from biomass in Korea is very challenging. Due to the limited availability of single types of biomass domestically,…
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Enshu Forest Energy began commercial operations at its 7.1MW biomass plant in Fukuroi city of Shizuoka prefecture, Japan on 16 November, reported Argus Media. The facility is expected to burn 90,000t/yr of wood chips made from unused forest materials, which will be gathered primarily from Shizuoka prefecture. It has the capacity to generate approximately 53GWh/yr of electricity, set to be sold…
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Blackwood Technology BV (Blackwood), a torrefaction and carbonisation technology company, has announced the successful start of production of the first commercial FlashTor® black pellet plant in Lampang Province, Thailand. The plant is owned and operated by NT Biomass Products Company Limited (NTBC), a 100% subsidiary of TTCL Public Company Limited (TTCL). When fully ramped-up, it will produce…
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The vast majority of bio-waste (garden and food waste), which could be a valuable feedstock for the bio-based industries and biomanufacturing is currently unused, representing a missed opportunity, according to a new report by the Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC). As of 1 January this year, it is mandatory for EU Member States to separately collect bio-waste. But many countries have poor…
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Japan's JFE Shoji Group and Malaysia’s Elridge Energy Holdings - via the latter’s subsidiary Bio Eneco - have signed a long-term memorandum of understanding (MoU) to supply 150,000 metric tonnes (MT) of Green Gold Label (GGL)-certified palm kernel shell (PKS) biomass annually, starting in April 2025. “This MoU marks a RE milestone, not just for Japan but for the entire biomass market, thus…
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New Energy Risk (NER), a wholly owned division of Paragon Insurance Group, and Ecostrat, a leader in assessing, developing, optimising, and managing biomass supply chains, have announced a partnership to develop Feedstock Supply Insurance© (FSI), an insurance offering that aims to mitigate risk in biomass feedstock supply chains. It will do this by effectively capping feedstock costs and…
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erex Group plans to expand biomass activity in Vietnam. In its Vietnam business, erex has invested in Hau Giang Bio Energy, a company established for the purpose of constructing and operating biomass power plants. In cooperation with the Vietnamese government, it will promote the construction of new biomass plants, the conversion of existing power plants to biomass and development of biomass…
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