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Examinations reveal UPM’s renewable diesel dramatically lowers emissions

Plantations International Information Finnish wood-based UPM BioVerno diesel has been discovered to significantly decrease dangerous tailpipe exhausts. A variety of engine as well as motor vehicle examinations have been executed throughout a variety of essential research study institutes such as VTT Technical Study Center of Finland Ltd., College of Vaasa in Finland and at FEV, a worldwide acknowledged automobile engineering business based in Germany. UPM BioVerno sustainable diesel has already been shown to function similar to traditional diesel in all diesel engines yet it produces up to 80 percent much less greenhouse gas exhausts throughout its lifecycle compared with standard fossil [...]

Report: Biofuels ability to increase to 61 BGY in 2018

Plantations International Information International biofuels capability will increase to 61 billion gallons per year (BGY) in 2018, up from 55.1 BGY in 2014. Ethanol and also biodiesel will remain to dominate with 96 percent of the capability in 2018, but novel energies as well as unique feedstocks will be significant drivers of capacity development, according to Lux Research. Novel fuels as well as novel feedstocks will expand at a rapid 27 percent and 16 percent substance annual growth rate (CAGR), respectively, via 2018. Ethanol as well as biodiesel will expand at a slower 2 percent price however will certainly get to [...]

EU-based Nidera makes RSB cert for UCO biodiesel

Plantations International Information The sustainability certification fors example Nidera's trading operations as well as its 30 MMgy biodiesel plant in Spain The Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials announced Sept. 22 that Rotterdam-based Nidera has actually earned the RSB qualification for production and also investing of biodiesel from utilized cooking oil (UCO). Started in 1920 in Rotterdam as well as currently active in greater than 18 countries, Nidera is a global product solution as well as remedies company for ag markets. The extent of the accreditation consists of Nidera's investing procedures and also its 30 MMgy biodiesel facility in Huesca, Spain, called Biodiesel [...]

D4 RIN prices suggest traders predict tax credit reinstatement

Plantations International News A drop in soybean oil prices since June has led to a decline in biodiesel prices, reducing the blend margin. Since D4 RIN values are a function of the blend margin and the two generally correlate, RIN prices have fallen too. But as University of Illinois economist Scott Irwin writes in a Sept. 10 FarmDocDaily post, “Why is the Price of Biodiesel RINs Plummeting?” the RIN price drop since June more than doubles the blend margin decline. As Irwin points out, improving soybean production prospects in the U.S. and concerns about economic growth in China have led to [...]

United States EPA busts VW on diesel exhausts cheat gadget; VW responds

Plantations International Information The UNITED STATE EPA released a notification of violation (NOV) of the Clean Air Act on Sept. 18 to Volkswagen AG, Audi AG, as well as Volkswagen Team of America Inc. alleging that four-cylinder Volkswagen as well as Audi diesel autos from model years 2009-'15 consist of software application that circumvents EPA discharges criteria for nitrogen oxides (NOx), a toxin conventionally believed to be a major contributor to ground degree ozone and smoke development. Baseding on the EPA, Volkswagen installed an innovative software application formula on specific cars that spots when the vehicle is undertaking official exhausts testing, [...]

EU extends duties on US biodiesel as US imports surge

Plantations International News After a year-long investigation, the EU has extended duties on U.S. biodiesel, a decision that the U.S. biodiesel trade association says is unfair and protectionist. EU Regulations 2015/1518 and 2015/1519 were published Sept. 15 in the EU Official Journal. The regulations extend both the antidumping and antisubsidy duties on U.S. biodiesel for an additional five years. The duties originally went into effect in July 2009 after complaints that subsidized B99 from the U.S. was flooding the European market, causing injury to EU producers. Afterwards, complaints that U.S. producers were circumventing the duties by shipping biodiesel to the EU [...]

MSU, PHYCO2 partner in algae development, CO2 absorption

Plantations International News Michigan State University and PHYCO2 have entered into a partnership to develop algae technologies produced from PHYCO2’s revolutionary and patented concept that promotes algae growth and sequesters, or captures, carbon dioxide from power plant emissions. The collaboration is a direct response to the White House and U.S. EPA’s call documented in the Clean Power Plan. Under the collaborative research agreement, MSU and PHYCO2—an algae growth and carbon dioxide sequestration company based in Santa Maria, California—will investigate the performance of PHYCO2’s algae growth and carbon dioxide absorption technology, as well as algae-processing technologies. PHYCO2 will be testing its algae [...]

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