Tag Directory > Feedstock
- Home
- >>
Tags
We have 20 results for Feedstock.
1USDA approves $25M loan to SoyMor 1 Citation Written on June 27, 2009 7th Space reports that U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today that the Department of Agriculture has approved a $25 million loan for a Minnesota biodiesel facility. USDA Rural Development is providing SoyMor Biodiesel a $25 million guaranteed loan to purchase equipment that will enable SoyMor to convert multiple types of feed stocks into biodiesel. The loan is the second USDA Rural Development has made under the Section 9003 Biorefinery Assistance P, technorati.com
|
1 Citation Written on June 29, 2009 Biodiesel Magazine reports that BioDiesel International (BDI) has opened a biodiesel plant in Fredrikstad, Norway. Special guests include the Norwegian Minister of the Environment and International Development and the Austrian Ambassador to Norway. The customer Uniol AS obtained BDI?s multi-feedstock biodiesel technology with an overall investment volume of EUR 35 million. Permalink ? What do you think? Discuss this entry in the Green Investing Forum., technorati.com
|
Can The Farmers and Cap-And-Trade Be Friends? 1 Citation The Wash Post ?s Steven Pearlstein lays into the ways in which the ag industry boondoggled cap-and-trade: Farmers demanded that they be allowed to earn some extra cash by reducing the carbon footprint on their farms and selling these offsets to the factories and power plants unlucky enough to be subject to the carbon-cap regime. They want to be paid extra if they change the feedstock to cut down on cow burps and farts. Or if they use the no-till method for planting seeds, which doesn?t rele, technorati.com
|
1 Citation VIASPACE Inc has reported the advisory board appointment of ?? Professor Yingjun Zhang of China Agricultural University, a respected expert in the science and technology of growing and using grass.? VIASPACE Inc has also informed: ?VIASPACE is cultivating and marketing fast-growing Giant King Grass as a feedstock for producing cellulosic low-carbon biofuel (?grassoline?), and as a biomass , technorati.com
|
Rentech (RTK) Approaches Final Approval For Feedstock Jet Fuel 1 Citation Rentech (RTK) may explode higher today on news it has stepped closer to providing jet fuel from feedstock . Specifications for synthetic jet fuel for commercial aviation use was passed by the aviation fuels subcommittee of ASTM International with final approval expected in the fall as long as the FAA is on board as well. I?ll have more this soon? No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin ., technorati.com
|
Tough Times for Soy-based Biodiesel 1 Citation In the past couple of years, soybean growers have seen prices for their feedstock skyrocket as oil prices rose as well and motorists looked for alternatives to petroleum-based fuels. But those rising prices for soybeans put a lot of refineries in jeopardy, despite the growing demand for biodiesel. Add to those issues, a new proposal from the Environmental Protection Agency that would basically shut out soy-based biodiesel from the Renewable Energy Standard, it?s no wonder Iowa Farmer Today h, technorati.com
|
Eastern Petroleum still looking for ethanol plant partner 1 Citation Written on June 24, 2009 Business Mirror reports that independent oil player Eastern Petroleum Corp. is still on the lookout for a strategic partner for its planned ethanol production facility in the Philippines. Fernando Martinez, Eastern Petroleum chairman, said the facility will have a capacity to produce 30 million liters of ethanol a year. Initial capacity is estimated at 100,000 liters a day. Martinez added that they are currently developing cassava as the ethanol plant?s feedstock., technorati.com
|
Impact of ethanol on corn supply tackled in white paper 1 Citation Written on June 24, 2009 All About Feed reports that Dave Vander Griend, president of ICM Inc., has just released a white paper on the impact of corn ethanol on the corn supply. According to Vander Griend the value of ethanol co-products is highly underrated. Ethanol production returns about one third of the corn it utilizes in the form of distillers grains for livestock feed. In a comparison between corn, switchgrass and sugarcane as feedstock for ethanol production, Vander Griend favors, technorati.com
|
Bioenergy Crops May Be Beneficial for Soil and Water 1 Citation ArkansasBusiness.com By George Ogendi and Dr. Jennifer Bouldin, Arkansas State University 6/22/2009 9:10:01 AM Agricultural and forest lands occupy nearly 1.4 billion acres of the contiguous United States. These lands are the foundation of our agricultural and forestry supplies. Our forests provide habitat and corridors that support wildlife populations, filter and regulate surface and groundwater flows, and sequester carbon. These services improve the quality of life for the population. While, technorati.com
|
1 Citation The New York Times (and its Green Inc. blog ) are covering Dow Chemical and startup company Algenol Biofuels ? newly announced plan to build a pilot plant for converting carbon dioxide into ethanol. (You?ll hear more about this story in C&EN soon). As you might be able to guess from Algenol?s name, the idea is to use specially-engineered algae to make the ethanol, which would be used as fuel or as a feedstock for plastics. Both of the stories are business stories, so I don?t expect, technorati.com
|