US ethanol crush margin reaches nearly two-year high (link used in ethanol plants are also hurting)
In spite of transportation costs of soybeans from US to Europe and China rising, exports have risen. Of particular interest: beans from Minneapolis and Davenport to Germany and China use the Gulf instead of the St. Lawrence Seaway, and this cost has gone up 17%. Transportation costs have gone up because of demand for rail cars caused by the increased export of grain and iron ore.
China importing sorghum and barley because they are enforcing weight limits on trucks carrying corn.
Hemicellulose next for Fortress Paper Hemicellulose is a cellulosic sugar that can be processed into biofuel and "biomaterial feedstock." But it uses birch. It sounds like they are going to pulp the birch trees rather than just use birch scraps. Our cabinets are made with birch veneer plywood, so I know birch is a hardwood, not your typical pulp tree. But it sounds like Canada has a lot of birch that is not good enough for veneer or trim boards so they are going to pulp them ("crush-quality hardwood").
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Connecticut’s first food waste biogas plant nears finish They have a law banning commercial food waste from landfills. (Managing the methane generated inside landfills is a problem.) So they need to provide plants that can accept the waste. This plant "will generate 1.2MW of power."
To put the numbers 50MW and 1.2MW into perspective, Illinois is shutting down coal-fired boilers that can produce over 600MW.
Building a biomass plant with scrap containers. Instead of companies paying Waste Management to haul their woody waste to landfills, you can pay this biomass plant to haul the waste to their facility to make pellets and/or briquettes that they put in shipping containers. These containers can then be sent to power plants to replace coal. Or the biomass plant can take corn stover, process it and load it into shipping containers to be sent to cellulosic ethanol plants. The contents of the containers have been processed so that it can be dumped directly into their reactor. We have to put our plant waste in separate containers for a separate pickup to keep it out of our landfills. This waste is taking to a facility that composts the material. We pay for the disposal of our plant waste as well as for the disposal of our regular waste. They do a third pickup for recyclable material such as paper and plastic; and that pickup is free.
Pellet Technology USA invests $30 million, turning corn stover into three grades of feed pellets
Pelleted Feed Innovation from Nebraska
Synata buys the last cellulosic ethanol plant that was owned by bankrupt Abengoa. Synata is a newly formed energy company in Warrenville, IL. I remember reading a few years ago that people in Warrenville were working on developing bacteria (or was it algae?) that produce diesel fuel as their waste product. Sounds like they may have been successful.
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Mt. Pulaski Corn Cob Mills Closed. Satellite view Street view Unless there are corn seed and/or popcorn plants in the area, I wonder where they get their feedstock. And are those cobs now going to a landfill to put methane into the atmosphere? Delphi, IN plant
ADM announces project to provide renewable natural gas It is already produced as a byproduct at its Decatur plant. Ameren Illinois is helping them connect it to the nation's natural gas infrastructure. This raises the question of what had they been doing with the methane? Dumping it into the atmosphere? Methane is a much worse greenhouse gas than CO2. I hope they were at least flaring (burning) it rather than let it get into the atmosphere.
Building a biomass plant with scrap containers. Instead of companies paying Waste Management to haul their woody waste to landfills, you can pay this biomass plant to haul the waste to their facility to make pellets and/or briquettes that they put in shipping containers. These containers can then be sent to power plants to replace coal. Or the biomass plant can take corn stover, process it and load it into shipping containers to be sent to cellulosic ethanol plants. The contents of the containers have been processed so that it can be dumped directly into their reactor. We have to put our plant waste in separate containers for a separate pickup to keep it out of our landfills. This waste is taking to a facility that composts the material. We pay for the disposal of our plant waste as well as for the disposal of our regular waste. They do a third pickup for recyclable material such as paper and plastic; and that pickup is free.
Pellet Technology USA invests $30 million, turning corn stover into three grades of feed pellets
Pelleted Feed Innovation from Nebraska
Synata buys the last cellulosic ethanol plant that was owned by bankrupt Abengoa. Synata is a newly formed energy company in Warrenville, IL. I remember reading a few years ago that people in Warrenville were working on developing bacteria (or was it algae?) that produce diesel fuel as their waste product. Sounds like they may have been successful.
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Mt. Pulaski Corn Cob Mills Closed. Satellite view Street view Unless there are corn seed and/or popcorn plants in the area, I wonder where they get their feedstock. And are those cobs now going to a landfill to put methane into the atmosphere? Delphi, IN plant
Joint Venture LignoTech Florida Plans Manufacturing Center In Fernandina Beach, Florida "By using natural, sustainable raw materials, the company produces advanced and environmentally friendly biochemicals, biomaterials and bioethanol that replace oil-based products. The new operation will provide environmentally friendly alternatives to oil-based products."
Minnesota n-butanol plant comes online
Chicago ethanol market in steepest backwardation in two years Argo Terminal prices are going up because ethanol plants are exporting their output and meeting contract requirements for refineries by shipping ethanol from Argo. But prices are expected to go back down in early 2017.
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Solfuels USA Acquires Biodiesal Refinery In Helena, Arkansas
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BIOX more than triples biodiesel production in 2016
Iowa State University improves algae technology to treat wastewater for communities and businesses
Daniel Perry Here's hoping they do better than the other plant nearby with that, they're giving away corn stover they paid for because they can't use it up fast enough. I've heard they lost a few piles due to spontaneous combustion too.
Cardinal Ethanol making money, expanding in Union City
Argo ethanol reaches six-week high amid stronger corn, tight market
China takes action against US DDGS, ethanol imports
Record biofuel production powers rural Iowa economy
Kinder Morgan stops ethanol deliveries to Argo terminal on full storage
Cascades to upgrade biomass boilers at Cabano I think this article is saying they are improving the efficiency of their two boilers that burn tree scraps. I think they make paper products ("produces, converts and markets packaging and tissue products that are composed mainly of recycled fibres"). And the government is paying for almost half of the upgrades. There were so many platitudes, it was hard to find any info.
Klobuchar [US Senator] touts ethanol, farm support during Janesville plant visit.Cardinal Ethanol making money, expanding in Union City
Argo ethanol reaches six-week high amid stronger corn, tight market
China takes action against US DDGS, ethanol imports
Record biofuel production powers rural Iowa economy
Kinder Morgan stops ethanol deliveries to Argo terminal on full storage
Cascades to upgrade biomass boilers at Cabano I think this article is saying they are improving the efficiency of their two boilers that burn tree scraps. I think they make paper products ("produces, converts and markets packaging and tissue products that are composed mainly of recycled fibres"). And the government is paying for almost half of the upgrades. There were so many platitudes, it was hard to find any info.
Pacific Ethanol to install Edeniq technology at Madera plant, a cellulosic ethanol plant, but just one of its 40 million gallons of output. "We are excited to have over 2 billion gallons of ethanol capacity either already under license or committed to commercial trials for our Pathway Technology, with additional plants being added each month."
Lesaffre inaugurates a new yeast drying facility in Alabama
Iowa ethanol plant boosts capacity with new technology
When I was driving in a Chicago suburb south of I-80, I saw gas for 1.21 and E85 for 1.19. The is the highest I have seen E85. But we have been reading about the Argo terminal being filled to capacity. What I learned about supply and demand in economics is not working in the retail ethanol world. This is the first time I've seen E85 higher than 80% of the posted gas price. Let alone almost equal to it. My experience is that E85 gets 80% of the mile-per-gallon that gas gets.
Poet’s South Dakota biorefining plant surpasses billion gallon ethanol milestone
The plant, which employs about 40 people, began operations in October 2008. According to the company website, the facility has the capacity to consume about 24 million bushels of locally grown corn to produce 68 million gallons of ethanol annually.Cash-strapped Rentech pulls plug on Wawa pellet mill
China’s use of methanol in liquid fuels grows rapidly, new figures suggest (not a biofuel! feedstock is coal)
Ethanol brings $2 billion per year to Minnesota's economy
US ethanol exports on record pace after strong 2016
Biox explores renewable diesel production in Sombra, Ontario
Diamond Green Diesel to expand renewable fuel capacity using Ecofining technology from HoneywellCanfor gets $13 million for bio-crude plan Lucas Irons: Diamond Green Diesel to expand biodiesel capacity at the Honeywell UOP plant in Norco Louisiana.
California ethanol plant to build biodiesel refinery on site
Renewable Energy Group Closes Financing on $24 Million Upgrade to Ralston Biorefinery
D3MAX signs contract for design of first commercial plant (add to ethanol plants to make more ethanol from the wastes using cellulose technology?)
Dupont- Archer Daniels Midland Plans BioBased Production Plant in Decatur, Illinois Will make "furan dicarboxylic methyl ester" using a Dupont process. One of the first uses of the FDME molecule will be for "polytrimethylene furandicarboxyate (PTF)." This can be used to create plastic bottles that are better than today's PET bottles.
Funding secured for biorefinery in Ontonagon (source)
William Littrell Lukas Irons the people of the Western Upper Peninsula are dying for jobs especially in Ontonagan this is welcome news, but E&LS bowed to pressure from snowmobile groups and yanked the tracks to Ontonagan such an expensive rebuild and a waste of money to pull the rails and thankfully rebuild them 7 years later.
Railroad property should be allowed a homestead exemption on property taxes.
Snowmobile and Rails to Trails groups need to learn to share or find another location for the, commerce and potential commerce in the future should be the priority when it comes to rail and industrial property.
Railroad property should be allowed a homestead exemption on property taxes.
Snowmobile and Rails to Trails groups need to learn to share or find another location for the, commerce and potential commerce in the future should be the priority when it comes to rail and industrial property.
Brenden Perkins All that for 3 tank cars worth of the stuff a day? Doesn't seem like much product.
POET Enters Asphalt Industry With JIVE Corn-Oil-Based Product JIVE is produced as a coproduct of the biofuel process and is a lower-cost option than the traditional petroleum-based modifiers and rejuvenators.
POET Enters Asphalt Industry With JIVE Corn-Oil-Based Product JIVE is produced as a coproduct of the biofuel process and is a lower-cost option than the traditional petroleum-based modifiers and rejuvenators.
At POET plants, the patented BPX process uses enzymes instead of heat during biofuel fermentation, leading to a better slate of co-products, including JIVE.
Fulton NY ethanol plant changes hands.
David Jordan The former Miller brewery, correct?
Lukas Irons Yep
William Littrell New York is Third to only Hawaii and California in having a hostile business climate.
If Fulton and Oswego County was located in Georgia, Ohio, Missouri, South Carolina, Kentucky, Michigan, Tennessee, Indiana or Mississippi instead of New York State, Miller would probably still be operating along with the Nestle's plant and the Birds eye plant.
Next door around Syracuse in Onondaga County you'd still have two Carrier plants,
Syracuse China Corporation and the General Motors Plant which GM would now be trying to close.
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