Wednesday, 30 October 2019 08:32
Valmet to deliver biomass pretreatment system to PRAJ Industries in India
Valmet will deliver biomass pretreatment system to PRAJ Industries for their second-generation bio refinery project which is under execution in India. The delivery is planned for the year 2020. The order was included in Valmet’s orders received of the third…
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Wednesday, 30 October 2019 08:29
Libryo pledges commitment to growing renewable energy sector
Renewable energy suppliers currently produce more than 20 per cent of the UK’s electricity and EU targets mean that this is likely to increase to 30 percent in the next year. With this substantial growth, coupled with the ever-changing legislation,…
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Wednesday, 30 October 2019 08:26
World's first combined 2G ethanol and crude lignin oil biorefinery inches closer to reality
Sainc Energy Limited (Sainc), a London-based developer of biomass refineries, has entered into a definitive supply contract for 180,000 tons per annum of local olive tree prunings for its planned advanced bio-refinery at Villaralto, in Cordoba Province, Andalusia, Spain. The bio-refinery…
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Wednesday, 30 October 2019 08:20
Nfu backs biomass heat works! Campaign calling out government on rural decarbonisation policy…
The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) has pledged its support to the Biomass Heat Works! campaign, the biomass heat industry’s call for UK Government to act now, protect approximately 46,000 jobs, extend the Renewable Heat Incentive scheme (RHI) and raise fossil…
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Wednesday, 30 October 2019 08:16
New Sustainable Certification Scheme Starts Practical Tests
The SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES Verification Scheme GmbH (SURE) has announced the start of the practical operation for the certification of sustainable power and heat from biomass at this year’s German Industry for Wood Energy conference in Würzburg. Since the beginning of…
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Wednesday, 30 October 2019 08:06
Complete production chain from biomass residues to Fischer-Tropsch products successfully validated
Production of biofuel by gasification of biomass residues was successfully validated in the EU’s COMSYN project in September. The process performance was verified with bark in an 80 hour-long test run at VTT. The syngas conversion to Fischer-Tropsch (FT) products…
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Wednesday, 30 October 2019 08:02
Commenting on the passing of the Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) Bill
Claire Mack, Chief Executive at Scottish Renewables, said: “The cross-party consensus that Scotland must take bold action on emissions reductions remains one of the most important aspects of Scotland’s climate change success and we welcome this piece of legislation as…
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Thursday, 24 October 2019 08:16
Dow and UPM partner to produce plastics made with renewable feedstock
Dow (NYSE: DOW), in partnership with UPM Biofuels, a producer of advanced biofuels, announces the commercialization of a plastics offering for the packaging industry made from a bio-based renewable feedstock. Dow is integrating wood-based UPM BioVerno renewable naphtha – a…
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Tuesday, 22 October 2019 07:19
Geminor awarded Carmarthenshire’s residual waste contract
European secondary fuels specialist, Geminor, has been awarded a contract to manage the recovery of c. 35 000 tonnes of refuse derived fuel (RDF) per year. The five-year contract, awarded by CWM Environmental Ltd – Carmarthenshire’s waste management Teckal company…
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Tuesday, 22 October 2019 06:57
West Bromwich MP Adrian Bailey visits the UK’s first municipal waste gasification plant as it achieves capability to supply energy to the grid, for the first time
Based in Wednesbury, the UK’s first municipal waste gasification plant has been developed by Kew Technology, in partnership with the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI), which can be used to produce clean electricity, heat, hydrogen and liquid fuels from waste. Local…
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Tuesday, 22 October 2019 06:38
Complete production chain from biomass residues to Fischer-Tropsch products successfully validated
Production of biofuel by gasification of biomass residues was successfully validated in the EU’s COMSYN project in September. The process performance was verified with bark in an 80 hour-long test run at VTT. The syngas conversion to Fischer-Tropsch (FT) products…
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Friday, 30 August 2019 06:42
Tidy Planet Energy brings cutting-edge solid waste boiler monitoring system to RWM 2019
Visitors attending the renowned RWM exhibition (11-12 September) will have the opportunity to learn about Tidy Planet’s turnkey Waste-to-Energy (WtE) plants, which feature pioneering solid waste boiler regulating technology – the Artificial Vision System (AVS) – from Sugimat. Despite having…
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Thursday, 15 August 2019 10:10
Now available: Trilon® M Max based on renewable resources
BASF has launched Trilon® M Max EcoBalanced, the first renewables-based Trilon® M grade produced according to the biomass balance approach. This approach replaces fossil feedstock with renewable feedstock such as bio-naphtha or biogas at the very beginning of production. The…
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Wednesday, 31 July 2019 17:46
Knox Recycling takes delivery of Australia’s first UNTHA XR
The first UNTHA XR shredder is now operational in Melbourne, Australia, following a 15,000km journey from the world-renowned engineering facility where it was manufactured in Austria. The 37-tonne mobile machine has been shipped to Knox Recycling (KTS), a long-standing client…
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Wednesday, 31 July 2019 17:18
Stora Enso invests in producing bio-based carbon materials for energy storage
Stora Enso is investing EUR 10 million to build a pilot facility for producing bio-based carbon materials based on lignin. Wood-based carbon can be utilised as a crucial component in batteries typically used in consumer electronics, the automotive industry and…
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