Jun 26, 2013
Biogas project set after joint venture in Malaysia
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Jun 25, 2013
A German scientist believes forests in Tasmania could hold a key to bountiful bioenergy production.
Andreas Rothe, from the University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan, has spent five months studying the region and ascertained that waste from those forests could generate millions of dollars worth of bioenergy.
He estimates more than 3 million tonnes of biomass per person... [Read More]
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Jun 25, 2013
A biogas boiler has been installed at the Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC) in Lalitpur, Nepal as it aims to encourage local renewable energy consumption.
The gas produced by the 1m3 capacity facility will power the Centre’s canteen for two hours a day via household waste feedstock.
Govindraj Pokhrel, AEPC executive director, was quoted as saying he hopes... [Read More]
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Jun 24, 2013
A new facility scheduled for operation in September will use sugar beet pulp to produce biogas in Moldova.
Südzucker Moldova (SM), a sugar producing company, will house the new bioenergy facility at its sugar factory in Drochia to allow for ‘maximum use of waste resulting from the extraction of sugar from beets, which will be converted to "green" and organic... [Read More]
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Jun 24, 2013
Vermont Wood Pellet (VWP), a US-based pellet producer, has won a share of a $750,000 (€572,500) grant provided by the Working Lands Enterprise Fund.
The company has said its $38,153 windfall will be spent on upgrading its equipment to increase production output and overall efficiency by reducing the amount of waste made during the process.
Its facility turned out... [Read More]
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Jun 21, 2013
A new report pertaining to wood markets states many sawmills in northern Europe have expanded their lumber sales outside the Europe market the past few years.
The resultant increase in non-European exports from Nordic countries went from 27% of total exports in 2007 to 43% in 2012. The biggest changes have come within shipments to Northern Africa, the Middle East, Japan,... [Read More]
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Jun 21, 2013
Technip, a France-based project management and engineering company, has won a multi-million euro front end contract to build a second generation biomass-to-liquid (BtL) plant in Finland.
The €5 million ($6.6 million) contract was awarded by Forest BtL and the facility will be built on Ajos island. It aims to produce approximately 140,000 tonnes of biodiesel and naphtha... [Read More]
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Jun 20, 2013
Tropical Power, a developer of biogas plants in Africa, has signed a deal with Clarke Energy to supply the first two containerised Jenbacher biogas engines in sub-saharan Africa.
The combined heat and power units will be supplied to an agricultural biogas plant located at a farm near Lake Naivasha, Kenya.
The project aims to produce 2.4MW of renewable electricity to power... [Read More]
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Jun 19, 2013
According to local news reports, five plantation companies in Malaysia have signed a biomass joint venture cluster agreement to benefit the state of Sabah.
The biomass project borne from this agreement, a concept from the Agensi Inovasi Malaysia (AIM), aims at aggregating sufficient volumes of biomass for a variety of downstream processing activities by allowing palm oil... [Read More]
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Jun 19, 2013
The US National Biodiesel Board (NBB) is to open up its membership to include qualified renewable diesel producers, in a move that it hopes will unite the advanced biofuels industry in the diesel sector.
The decision, made unanimously by NBB's governing board, consolidates the larger biodiesel industry with the younger and smaller renewable diesel industry together to... [Read More]
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Jun 19, 2013
Researchers from the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) at the University of Illinois (UI), US are evaluating the biomass potential of woody crops and their work is making them take a close look at the Robinia pseudoacacia tree – otherwise known as the black locust.
According to UI associate professor of crop sciences Gary Kling, it has been displaying a higher yield... [Read More]
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Jun 17, 2013
Moose Creek Energy's landfill gas-to-energy plant was officially opened on 7 June by energy minister Bob Chiarelli.
The 4.2MW plant is located in Moose Creek, Ontario at the Lafleche Environmental facility.
Moose Creek Energy is a joint venture between Energy Ottawa, a subsidiary of Hydro Ottawa, and Integrated Gas Recovery Services.
The facility at Moose Creek will generate... [Read More]
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Jun 17, 2013
Construction has begun on a biomass project in Maine, US. The plant will benefit two schools in the St. John Valley: the University of Maine and Fort Kent Community High School.
The biomass heating system will help both educational institutions reduce their carbon footprint while also slashing energy costs; it is expected to save more than $4 million (€2.9 million)... [Read More]
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Jun 17, 2013
Forest BtL Oy is developing a new biomass-to-liquid (BtL) plant on Ajos Island, Finland.
The facility will utilise wood and by-products from the wood processing industry to produce approximately 140,000 tonnes of biodiesel and naphtha.
The project is supported by the European Union NER300 funding programme for innovative renewable energy technologies.
The front-end engineering... [Read More]
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Jun 17, 2013
Developer Klamath Falls Bioenergy has withdrawn its application to build a biomass-fired power plant near Klamath Falls, Oregon, Associated Press reports.
The company said it would not have been able to meet its construction deadline of the end of 2013 due to delays in obtaining a state siting permit. This deadline was set by federal economic stimulus legislation, which... [Read More]
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Jun 13, 2013
The Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is working to demonstrate that jet fuel can be manufactured economically and in large volumes from biomass materials such as switchgrass and has partnered with Cobalt Technology, the US Navy and Show Me Energy for the project.
The results of these tests will help decipher whether the process can be ramped... [Read More]
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Jun 13, 2013
The global trade of woodchips has grown year on year from 2000 to 2011, the Wood Resource Quarterly reports.
This is with the exception of 2009 when pulp production fell around 10% and the demand for wood fibre was down.
From 2009-2012 woodchip imports reached just over 31 million tonnes, a 6.5 million increase. According to the report, much of this can be attributed to... [Read More]
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