Call Us Today! +65 3163 1386|info@plantationsinternational.com

Biofuels

New Paradise Chemicals biofuel stimulant plant to open up in Iowa

Plantations International Information New Heaven Chemicals, a US-based subsidiary of the TSS Firm, is preparing to open its chemical manufacturing center in Manly, Iowa. After 17 months of design, New Paradise Chemicals (NHC) prepares to start manufacturing of sodium methylate, a biofuel driver, by February 2016. The Manly plant is NHC's initial plant in the United States, and it will supplement the firm's existing plant in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. TSS Firm has been supplying salt methylate to biofuel producers worldwide, now it looks for to bring manufacturing closer to its clients. Baseding on Prasad Devineni, director of NHC, the company had [...]

Port of Seattle companions with Alaska Airlines and Boeing to provide lasting aeronautics biofuel

Plantations International Information The Port of Seattle, Alaska Airlines, and also Boeing are partnering to move towards powering all flights by all airlines at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport terminal (Sea-Tac) with sustainable aviation biofuel. Sea-Tac is the first US airport to outline a long-lasting roadmap to include aviation biofuel into its framework in a cost-efficient, effective manner. The three celebrations authorized a Memorandum of Recognizing (MOU) to introduce a $ 250,000 (EUR230,600) biofuel infrastructure usefulness research that will analyze prices and infrastructure required to supply a mix of air travel biofuel and typical jet energy. Port of Seattle Commissioner John Creighton says [...]

New Zealand’s very first business biodiesel plant set for screening

Plantations International News Z Energy, a New Zealand power producer has relocated to finishing New Zealand's first industrial scale biodiesel plant in Wiri, Auckland, with the setup of a biodiesel purification column. The plant, which will certainly move right into the screening phase very early next year, will transform inedible tallow, a by-product of the New Zealand meat sector, right into 20 million litres of biodiesel a year, with the potential to scale production approximately 40 million litres a year. Z's basic supervisor of supply and circulation, David Binnie, claims the biodiesel purification column is an advanced piece of package which [...]

Golden Entrance Petroleum to provide renewable diesel to California state firms

Plantations International News A new contract between the State of California and Golden Gate Oil may help the state make a massive jump in the direction of meeting its aggressive discharge objectives. The emission targets were mandated by Guv Jerry Brown's exec order to lower greenhouse gas (GHG) exhausts to 40 % less than 1990 degrees by the year 2030. The arrangement will transform one of the biggest fleets in the US to sustainable diesel (RD99). Governor Brown revealed in very early December that all state agencies will certainly now be required to purchase renewable diesel for their fleets of diesel-powered [...]

Metabolic pathway in cyanobacteria can yield far better biofuels

Plantations International News Scientists from the US Power Division's National Renewable resource Lab (NREL) have actually uncovered that a metabolic pathway recently just suggested to be functional in photosynthetic organisms is actually a significant path as well as could enable efficient conversion of carbon dioxide to organic substances. The discovery shines brand-new light on the complicated metabolic network for carbon exercise in cyanobacteria, while unlocking to much better methods of making chemicals from carbon dioxide or plant biomass, as opposed to acquiring them from oil. The discovery was led by NREL elderly researcher Jianping Yu and Wei Xiong, an NREL Supervisor's [...]

USGC ethanol export programme yields $15m sales to Peru

Plantations International News The US Grains Council's ethanol export promo program has seen an early success with a United States exporter verifying considerable sales people ethanol to Peru. The 10 million gallons of ethanol, valued at greater than $ 15 million (EUR13.7 m), were sold after the United States Grains Council (USGC) led a team of Peruvian ethanol buyers and also producers to take part in the International Energy Ethanol Workshop in Minneapolis. The visitors additionally checked out ethanol production facilities and also investing business in Iowa, Illinois, and also Texas. 'The seminar and sees supplied the ethanol customers with the [...]

New Zealand Biofuel Roadmap task takes off

Plantations International News An initiative by Heir, a New Zealand Crown Research Institute for timber as well as biomaterials, to understand the future potential of biofuels in New Zealand has stood out from 'major gamers'. Successor reports that actors in industry, federal government, and also market single-interest group in addition to the study neighborhood have revealed passion in its New Zealand Biofuels Roadmap (NZBR) job. NZBR, readied to run for the following 2 year, establishes out to specify maximum paths for massive manufacturing as well as use of fluid biofuels in New Zealand. Successor's clean innovations science leader Paul Bennett says [...]

Toggle Sliding Bar Area