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The growing global energy demand has been the strongest factor for the increasing levels of fossil-CO2 emissions into the atmosphere.
To decrease the dependency on fossil fuel and at the same time decrease the emitted greenhouse gases (GHG), renewable energy sources are required.
According to the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), negative CO2 emissions are needed to meet the…
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There is concern in the marine sector that future demand for biofuels will surpass supply availability, in part due to feedstock competition from the road and aviation sectors.
Quadrise’s Oil-in-Water (OIW) emulsion fuel technology provides an innovative solution to this problem, allowing ship owners to unlock cheaper, low-carbon biofuel streams that were previously inaccessible for energy…
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Assessing this year’s prospects for biofuels in South America is about much more than just what is happening in Brazil.
As a starting point, however, it’s difficult to move pass the country’s recent change of government and subsequent upheaval surrounding the actual changing of power.
With more than 400 biofuel plants operating in Brazil, according to the latest USDA figures, and the…
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Nicholas Ball, founder & CEO at Xfuel, outlines what inspired him to become involved in the biofuels space.
What was your first job?
My first job was a summer job when I was 12 years old, supporting an electrician with the electrical installation of a new hotel in Mallorca, Spain - which is where I grew up. When I entered the workforce following my engineering master’s degree from Imperial…
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This is an important year for India with the country holding the G20 presidency through to the end of November, giving the nation’s leaders several opportunities to help shape future policies and programmes across many sectors, including their already-declared strong focus on biofuels.
Adopting a presidency theme of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam – One Earth One Family One Future, India has named…
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Gevo is a technology development and commercialisation company focused on largescale deployment of net-zero renewable hydrocarbon fuels, chemicals and nutritional products.
Using a combination of proprietary biological and chemical transformations and a strategic alliance with Axens, the company plans to offer the technological know-how and systems design for a wide range of products while…
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The North American ethanol industry is nothing if not persistent and innovative, qualities which have served the sector well in the past and are set to play a central role in helping to secure a sustainable place within the net-zero future of the world.
Buoyed in the US by the Inflation Reduction Act and the steady approach of future clean fuel policies and, in the US and Canada, by the…
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Prices stabilising, overall production exceeding demand and stocks at an all-time high - the current picture seems rosy for the oilseed processing industry. Following an especially challenging 18 months, these signs of partial recovery are surely a relief for biofuel processors and – in many respects – there is more good news to come.
As nations and corporations step up plans to replace…
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Renewable feedstock is seen by many as the way forward to achieve a sustainable source of aviation fuel and diesel.
The renewable feedstock can be based on a wide variety of raw materials, such as animal fat, used cooking oil, vegetable oil, or pyrolysis oils from waste plastics or car tyres. Depending on the feedstock, processing can include a pretreatment step, but it is always followed by…
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Nina Karpynec, Clariant Adsorbents, head of sales, marketing and technical business development purification Americas, and Guido Appl, Clariant Adsorbents, head of sales, marketing and technical business development purification EMEA, outlines how the global company has fared in the past 12 months.
Can you outline how the past 12 months have been for Clariant Adsorbents?
Guido: Last year…
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Move over crude and kerosene, vegetable oils are the fuel of the future. As automotive, aerospace and other industries transition away from fossil fuels, demand for vegetable-based biofuels has skyrocketed.
In 2020, total biofuel consumption peaked at 122 million tons representing a 35% increase on 20181, and between 2021-2026, global demand for these fuels is expected to rise by another 30%.2…
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As the demand for low carbon aviation fuels continues to grow in a world taking steps to decrease its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the main challenge faced by the aviation sector is to both to meet that demand and reduce its GHG emissions to net-zero by mid-century.
Along with most of the aeronautical companies involved in the CORSIA initiative, net-zero targets for aviation are now…
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For many years the concept of decarbonisation for any industrial process to produce their desired product without the need to emit carbon seemed alien. In fact, when people stop and think and move past the well-trodden words of net zero, carbon neutrality or even carbon negative, which from the cynical mind have become cliché, it is still hard to believe firms can manufacture the same product,…
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Philipp Schoelzel, vice-president next generation biofuels, bp, outlines why he finds the complex world of biofuels a fascinating sector to work in.
What was your first job?
Within bp it was as a product scheduler at our Rotterdam Refinery for Light and Middle Distillates. Basically, I was managing day-to-day refinery production, imports and exports of oil products and supply into local and…
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Wärtsilä’s participation in a recent test using 100% biofuels to fuel a cruise ship’s engine was as much a demonstration of the power of collaboration as it was a technical milestone for the industry.
We worked with GoodFuels and Holland America Line (HAL) to complete the cruise industry’s first multi-week test of biofuels. The 20-day test was conducted onboard the Volendam at the Port…
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Operations manager Marko Leinonen ensures that the biofuel production at UPM Lappeenranta biorefinery runs optimally and safely.
What projects are you mainly working on right now?
I am responsible for production operations at the biorefinery in Finland. We are currently preparing for next spring's major shutdown in cooperation with the HSE as well as the maintenance and development departments.…
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Can you outline how the past 12 months have been for Clariant Adsorbents?
Guido: Last year continued to be another challenging year for the industry. In 2021, much like the year before, almost all the geographies and markets in which we operate were impacted by the global Covid-19 crisis.
However, the business, last year, was more affected by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This affected…
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Although demand for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) is expected to experience significant growth1, production is currently limited with only a handful of commercial plants available today.
bp believes that producing SAF through co-processing at existing refineries will help the aviation sector as it transitions to a low-carbon industry and builds dedicated and more efficient standalone units…
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Cytiva™ produces more than 25 million syringe filters each year and these are used in a variety of settings – from tracking air pollution levels to monitoring and optimising the conversion of glucose to ethanol in the production of bioethanol.
Each time a Whatman™ syringe filter is used during one of these processes, the remaining plastic waste is the size of a small coin.
Making…
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