If the spread between the selling price of palm methyl ester and the feedstock holds, biodiesel production exports should continue at robust pace, says the commodities minister
MALAYSIA has raised its 2008 biodiesel production export forecast to 200,000 tonnes, more than double that of last year’s 95,013 tonnes.
“Export of biodiesel is picking up in volume [...]
Petrobras will participate, today and tomorrow (10/20 & 21), in the Biofuels Houston Summit III, a conference held annually in Houston, Texas (USA), to debate scenarios and opportunities in the biofuels sector. The trends in the Brazilian ethanol industry, the challenges to be faced to open the global market to ethanol, agriculture aimed at biofuel [...]
By Anna Austin
Energy solutions research and development company BioCentric Energy Inc. has released details of five significant projects that will occur over the next three years, most of which are centered on the development and use of algae as an emissions absorption agent, biodiesel feedstock and electricity generator.
Over the past thirty months, BioCentric Energy has [...]
Algae company’s harvest will make biodiesel, nutritious livestock feed
Many in the alternative fuels industry agree that algae is where the mid-range future of the biodiesel industry. While fuels such as ethanol and cellulosic ethanol may prevail in the short term, algae is seen as the final stepping stone before full synthetic gasoline production. [...]
THE owner and operator of Australia’s largest biodiesel plant, Natural Fuels Australia Ltd (NFAL), has been placed in administration.
The development arose after the withdrawal of funding support from NFAL’s co-parent, Babcock & Brown Environmental Investments.
Babcock & Brown said funding had been withdrawn after Lurgi, the technology provider for the Darwin-based plant, withheld payments to NFAL, [...]
by kristen
While the headlines are filled with the effect Hurricane Ike had on oil refineries in Texas — and the speculation surrounding oil prices that drove gasoline prices wild — green fuel took a hit, too. GreenHunter Energy, Inc. said its Houston biodiesel refinery, the largest in the country, would be out of commission for [...]
