• News

  • 09.Mar
  • Expert Advises Caution for Liquid Fuels Hopefuls
  • A recent news report in agricultural website Capital Press says that timber companies need to be cautious when considering getting into the biomass business, according to expert Gareth Mayhead, academic coordinator for forest products at University of California-Berkeley. According to Mayhead, gasification and other liquid fuels technologies are not yet proven and are currently unfeasible for use [...]

  • 09.Mar
  • ClearFuels Plans Biorefinery for Tennessee
  • ClearFuels Technology, based in Hawaii, has partnered with Hughes Hardwood to build a biorefinery in Collinwood, Tennessee, which will produce diesel, naphtha, and electricity using wood products.  The project is projected to break ground in 2011 and open in 2013 or 2014.  Once open, it is planned to employ 50 workers.
    ClearFuels has plans to develop [...]

  • 04.Mar
  • EPA Releasing E15 Decision Late Summer
  • The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will decide by late summer whether to allow higher levels of ethanol to be blended into standard transportation gasoline, the head of the agency recently reported. The EPA is considering an industry request for a waiver from federal rules to allow gasoline to contain up to 15% ethanol. EPA administrator [...]

  • 04.Mar
  • EU Group Drops Biomass Rules
  • In a report published the end of February, the European Commission’s energy department has confirmed there will be no EU effort—yet—to develop regulations concerning standards for biomass origin and sustainability, though the issue of “sustainability criteria” would be reviewed in 2011. The issue was hotly debated last year during Commission meetings.
    The report stated that EU [...]

  • Product News

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  • 13.Jan
  • Bandit Produces Bio-Sawdust
  • Bandit Industries, Inc. has developed technology that allows a ¼ in. minus sawdust-type material, known as bio-sawdust, to be produced from debarked roundwood in a single pass. Benefits of this new system include greater fuel efficiency, higher production levels in pellet mills, and the potential for expansion into biofuel and bioelectricity production, according to the [...]

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  • 12.Jan
  • New Biomass Chipper Has Compact Design
  • No progressive, international company can afford to rest on its laurels, says Vecoplan, based in Bad Marienberg, Germany. That’s why its  engineers have developed a new biomass chipper which is described as “mini but mighty.”
    “The biomass chipper is extremely compact in design and therefore only takes up a minimum amount of space in the plant,” [...]

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