South Central Railway’s Bio-diesel blending initiative The South Central Railway is the first in the country to take to the blending of 5% bio-diesel to its high speed diesel for its locomotives. To meet this end it established two bio-diesel units at Kacheguda and at Sanatnagar in 2015. Recently, ratio-blending facility was also unveiled in Kacheguda. It offers a more advanced substitute to the earlier system of sequential blending. Bio-diesel and regular high speed diesel (HSD) flow into a batch […]
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Oil Marketing Companies cross 100 cr litres ethanol blending. Ethanol Blending Petrol (EBP) Programme launched by the government in 2003, expected 110 crore litres of petrol blending in this supply year. The programme has already crossed 100 crore litres mark by Public Sector Oil Marketing Companies. The programme was started to promote the use of alternative and eco friendly fuels as well as to reduce the dependence on imported fuels. The EBP had a slow start and till 2013 only […]
Indian Oil Corporation will invest Rs 500 crores for setting up Ethanol plant. The plant will generate alternative fuel from agricultural waste in Panipat. The announcement was made by Union Minister of State for Petroleum and natural gas, Dharmendra Pradhan. The Minister also informed that in order to boost both the capacity and the quality of fuel, the Union Government will invest Rs 15 thousand crores in Panipat oil refinery in Haryana. The target is to increase the capacity from existing […]
In India the Karnataka States’ Biofuel Development Programme is set to get a boost in the form of $50 million dollars from International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD). The loan can be utilized in various activities such as plantation of biofuel crops and production. Biofuel Development Board of Karnataka has been active in promoting biofuels and has established biofuel information and demonstration centres with about 100 l per day capacity in each district. These centres are being scaled up to […]
Balrampur Chini Mills Ltd, one of the largest integrated sugar manufacturers in India, is planning to invest Rs.200 crore ($31.2 million) to boost ethanol production capacity of its three distilleries. The plan is to set up or adopt incineration technology to enhance production of ethanol in Balrampur, Babhnan & Mankapur Distillery Units. Balrampur Chini Mills owns 11 sugar mills in the state of Uttar Pradesh with an aggregate crushing capacity of 79,000 tons per day.
Owing to deregulated diesel prices and Government’s decision taken a few months back in January of allowing the biodiesel manufacturers to sell it directly to the customers, the Aemetis Inc. announced steady increase in the sales of its biodiesel with the truck fleet operators of logistic industry in South and West part of India. Trucks alone consume about 30% (7.5 billion gallons) of the total 25 billion gallons of diesel market in India annually. Aemetis Inc. is California, USA based advance […]
European Commission’s ‘Horizon 2020’ Program has granted Dyadic Netherlands B.V., a subsidiary of American company Dyadic International INC. €1.0 million funding for the ‘2G BIOPIC’ project to develop, construct and operate biomass to ethanol demonstration scale facility in collaboration with Compagnie Industrielle de Matiere Vegetale (“CIMV”) and five other industry partners. The project is based on the CIMV’s pilot plant and will process approximately one ton biomass per hour. The Dyadic’s CMAX® enzymes will play a vital role for agriculture […]
Fulcrum Bioenergy has given Abengoa the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract of $200 million for the construction of its first biofuel plant at Sierra (Navada) US. The construction will start in the second half of this year and the plant is scheduled to become operational in the third quarter of 2017. This contract guarantees the schedule, startup and performance of the plant. The plant will process 200,000 million tons of municipal solid waste into 10 million gallons of renewable […]
An Analysis by Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) finds that the delay by Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set the rules for Renewable Fuel Standards (RFS) has caused the loss of $13.7 billion dollar investment in advanced and cellulosic biofuel industry in USA. BIO is a trade association that represents biotechnology companies, academic institutions and state biotechnology centers across the United States and in many other countries. This happened at the time when the advanced and cellulosic biofuel industry was just […]
Novozyme, a Dannish company and world’s largest industrial enzymes producer, and Finland’s St1 Biofuels have agreed on a deal to produce advance cellulosic biofuel from sawdust. The later will build and operate the world’s first refinery using sawdust for advanced cellulosic biofuel production for which Novozyme will provide the enzymes. The refinery will be located in Kajaani in central Finland. The area is known for its timber production and the by-product sawdust is available in plenty. The refinery will be […]
