Researchers at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) claim to have developed a fairly cost-effective process to produce biodiesel from washed municipal secondary sludge fortified with crude glycerol mediated by the oleaginous yeast, Trichosporon oleaginosus.
Canada – Forge to build biodiesel/jet fuel plant costing US$22.4 million [Full subscriber]
The Canadian biofuel start-up FORGE Hydrocarbons Corp recently announced an equity investment from Shell Ventures and a follow-on contribution from Valent Low-Carbon Technologies, which will help build a first-of-its-kind CA$30 million (US$22.4 million) commercial-scale, biofuel production plant in Sombra, Ontario, Canada.
Role of aldehydede-formylating oxygenases in biodiesel production elicited [Registered]
Researchers at The University of Tokyo have identified enzymes that are responsible for the production of hydrocarbons in blue-green algae — a hydrocarbon producing cyanobacteria, reports Chemonline.
Engineered Rhodococcus opacus produces high yields of biodiesel from glucose [Full subscriber]
Researchers the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have presented a new strategy for efficiently producing fatty acids and biofuels that can transform glucose and oleaginous microorganisms into microbial diesel fuel, with one-step direct fermentative production.
Biowaste converted into biodiesel via hydrothermal liquefaction [Full subscriber]
Researchers from the universities Illinois’ (Prairie Research Institute) and Massachusetts (Lowell) report that they have succeeded in converting wet biowaste, such as swine manure and food scraps into biodiesel.
USA – New Planet Energy plans to build waste-to-biofuels US$700 mln plant in New York [Registered]
New Planet Energy is proposing to build a US$700 million recycling plant that will convert the region’s municipal garbage into fuel in Stony Point.
Argentina – 2017 likely to be a record for biofuels output [Registered]
First quarter data on biofuels output in Argentina suggests that it will be a record according to the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC).
Australia – Queensland Premier inaugurates pilot biodiesel plant processing waste [Registered]
The Premier of Queensland Annastacia Palaszczuk inaugurated a pilot biodiesel plant in Gladstone on 1st June that will process a variety of feedstocks deemed to be waste products.
Biodisel production from waste cooking oil using a microwave [Registered]
Using a microwave and catalyst-coated beads, researchers from Israel and Taiwan have devised a new way to convert waste cooking oil into biodiesel.
Finland – Kaidi group plans to build €1bln biofuel plant [Registered]
The plant will produce 200,000 t/y of second-generation biofuels, 75% of which will be biodiesel and the remainder biogasoline. The biorefinery will be the largest single investment ever made by a Chinese company in Finland, and Kaidi has established a Finnish subsidiary to oversee the project.
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