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Forecast: Global Biofuels Use to Double by 2015, Second-Gen Biofuels to Lag Expectations

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Despite a number of key issues such as land use and competition for feedstocks supplies for traditional food and feed uses, global use of biofuels is excepted to more than double from 2009 to 2015, according to a new global analysis released by Hart Energy Publishing’s Global Biofuels Center (GBC). billion gallons).

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Petrobras Biocombustível To Invest US$2.4B in Biodiesel and Ethanol Production

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To achieve that goal, Petrobras anticipates building a new plant in Northern Brazil; the Candeias (state of Bahia) plant will be duplicated; and the experimental plants in Guamaré, in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, will be adapted for commercial production. Abroad, meanwhile, an ethanol production unit is under analysis for Colombia.

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UOP looking to biomass catalytic pyrolysis to expand volumes of renewable hydrocarbon fuels

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Fats and greases and inedible oils are opportunity feedstocks, but the US supply of fats and greases is probably on the order of less than 10 million barrels, closer to 1-2 million barrels on an annual basis. Honeywell’s UOP Renewable Energy and Chemicals business unit. That’s a big sum. Green Diesel. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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