Feb 17, 2014
Biomass co-firing trial completed at Amer power plant
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Feb 13, 2014
Results of a third-party peer-reviewed life cycle assessment (LCA), entitled Greenhouse Gas and Energy Life Cycle Assessment of Pine Chemicals Derived from Crude Tall Oil and Their Substitutes, has found diverting crude tall oil (CTO) into biofuel production throughout Europe will not have a significant effect in either reducing carbon emissions nor fossil fuel consumption.
CTO... [Read More]
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Feb 11, 2014
Whisky producer Glenfiddich has received planning permission from local councillors to build an anaerobic digestion plant at its distillery in Dufftown, Scotland.
The AD facility will turn waste products generated from the company's distilling process into biogas. This biogas will either be cleaned and injected into the national gas network, or converted into 3.5MW of... [Read More]
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Feb 11, 2014
Up to $12 million (€8.8 million) in financial support is available from the Department of Energy (DoE) to advance the production of carbon fibre material from non-food based renewable feedstocks such as agricultural residues and woody biomass.
The DoE says carbon fibre derived from biomass could be cheaper to make and possess greater environmental benefits than traditional... [Read More]
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Feb 11, 2014
Versalis, the chemical subsidiary of Eni, and Elevance Renewable Sciences, a producer of specialty chemicals from natural oils, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to establish a strategic partnership to jointly develop and scale a new metathesis technology to produce biochemicals from vegetable oils.
Under the new partnership, the two companies will jointly... [Read More]
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Feb 11, 2014
Two Scandinavian companies are to merge and form a large-scale wood pellet business, headquartered in Sweden.
Nordic energy firm Lantmännen and Scandinavian bioenergy company Neova will combine their respective wood pellet businesses to create a new company that will include Neova's wood pellet business in Sweden and the corresponding Lantmännen Agroenergy buisnesses... [Read More]
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Feb 11, 2014
Russia-based GS Group has announced it will build a new wood pellet plant. To be located in Pskov, the production facility will have an annual capacity of 90,000 tonnes when it comes online towards the end of this year.
The investment necessary to bring the project to realisation is currently being reviewed.
The new plant is the third phase of a large-scale investment... [Read More]
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Feb 10, 2014
Empyro has broken ground on its pyrolysis oil production plant in the Netherlands.
Once construction is complete, expected for the end of this year, production capacity at the plant will be gradually ramped up to more than 20 million litres of pyrolysis oil per year. This oil is enough to replace 12 million m3 of natural gas, the equivalent annual consumption of 8,000... [Read More]
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Feb 6, 2014
Specialty chemicals company Elevance Renewable Sciences has awarded the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for its second biorefinery located in Natchez, Mississippi to URS.
Under the contract, URS' scope of work involves converting Elevance's existing biodiesel plant into a new biorefinery.
'With our presence in Baton Rouge, near the site of the... [Read More]
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Feb 4, 2014
GreenWood Tree Farm Fund (GTFF) has become the world's first short rotation forest plantation to earn certification under the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB).
The RSB certification covers GTFF's cultivation, management and harvesting of coppiced poplar trees, used as biomass feedstock either to be pelletised for direct combustion in biomass electric plants... [Read More]
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Feb 4, 2014
Constellation, a supplier of electricity and natural gas and a subsidiary of Exelon, is to design, build and operate a $130 million (€96 million) renewable energy plant in the US after signing an agreement with the City of Los Angeles.
Under the agreement, the 27MW power plant will be located at LA Sanitation's Hyperion treatment plant. Hyperion is among the 10 largest... [Read More]
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Feb 4, 2014
Biogas plant engineering firm Weltec is to open two new UK-based biomass plants later this year, one in Londonderry, Northern Ireland and another in Leicester.
The Londonderry project is a 500kW AD plant for industrial meat processing company Foyle Food Group. This plant, comprising a 3,000m3 stainless steel digester, will handle waste from the company's abattoirs in the... [Read More]
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Feb 3, 2014
The Wales Centre of Excellence for Anaerobic Digestion (the AD centre), part of the Sustainable Environment Research Centre based at the University of South Wales, has been awarded £889,000 (€1 million) by the Welsh government's A4B project to deliver a 'knowledge transfer' centre focused on advanced anaerobic processes and biogas systems.
The AD centre has... [Read More]
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Feb 3, 2014
A P2 million (€33,000) biomass plant under development in the Filipino province on Isabela is likely to begin operations early next year, according to reports.
Isabela Biomass is building the facility, which will generate 20MW of renewable energy from rice husks supplied by a group of local rice millers. Ground broke on the project last December.
Once complete the... [Read More]
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Feb 3, 2014
Dutch utility firm Eneco has inaugurated its Bio Golden Raand biomass power plant, located in Farmsum Delfzijl, the Netherlands.
The facility, built by Areva, Ballast Nedam Industriebouw and Mesto Power, generates 49.9MW of renewable power from waste wood – enough to provide over 120,000 homes with electricity and reduce CO2 emissions by around 250,000 tonnes a year.... [Read More]
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Jan 30, 2014
Aircraft manufacturer Airbus has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with ‘key Malaysian partners’ to assess local solutions for sustainable biomass production in the country.
The aim is to determine the most suitable feedstocks to ensure that any future jet fuel production in the region is based only on sustainable solutions. The first assessment is expected... [Read More]
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Jan 28, 2014
Virbio Energy, a biofuel producer, has received over €22 million in EU funding to demonstrate its technology for the production of biomethane from straw.
The €22.3 million grant was awarded under the NER300 initiative, which provides funding for demonstration projects for technology related to renewable energy over a five year period. The Fachagentur Nachwachsende... [Read More]
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The company aims to repurpose land, grid connections and cooling infrastructure that date back to the site’s coal-generation era
The first project, located in Biburg, Lower Bavaria, represents EnviTec’s debut in the Bavarian market following the construction of 112 biogas plants across Germany
