ethanol production News
-
ProSonix OptiShear Jet Cooker … The next generation
The ProSonix Corporation has released its new PSX C-Series OptiShear Jet Cooker for high solids concentration starch slurry cooking. Typical applications are fuel ethanol production and wet milling starch-processing applications.In the next generation OptiShear design, the tube and steam injector are coaxial, insuring the starch slurry gap is uniform throughout the full 360 degree flow path. The ...
By ProSonix LLC
-
HPD integrates stillage concentration system for AGP
AGP (Ag Processing Inc.) has selected HPD, a Veolia Water Solutions &, Technologies company, to provide an enhanced stillage concentration system to its Hastings, Nebraska ethanol production plant. The new system will supplement the existing falling film evaporator set and drying system to increase production of DDGS (distiller’s dried grains with solubles).The additional water removal ...
-
EnviroChemie builds modular wastewater treatment plant for Clariant`s innovative sunliquid cellulosic ethanol plant
EnviroChemie is planning, building, installing and commissioning a wastewater treatment plant in south-west Romania for the Swiss speciality chemicals company Clariant. The objective is to purify the process water from the production of cellulosic ethanol in the recently established plant to a quality that can be discharged directly. The modular wastewater treatment plant also provides ...
-
Settlements at South Dakota ethanol facilities ensure air pollutant reductions, yield $225K in penalties (SD)
In consent decrees lodged yesterday in the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota, the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reached agreements with the operators of three South Dakota ethanol production facilities resolving Clean Air Act violations associated with emissions and testing requirements for volatile organic compounds (VOCs). ...
-
LuminUltra Extends its Technologies to the Bioprocessing Sector
In order to advance the state of technologies for assessment of microorganisms in bio-processing applications, such as wastewater & biosolids treatment, ethanol production, and biogas generation, LuminUltra Technologies Ltd., of Fredericton, has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with New Brunswick’s Centre of Excellence in Agricultural and Biotechnological Sciences (CESAB) of the ...
-
NEDAK ethanol to pay $3,600 penalty, purchase radios, install leak sensors, for failure to develop risk management plan
NEDAK Ethanol, LLC, an alternative fuels manufacturer, has agreed to pay a civil penalty of $3,600 to the United States for failing to develop a Risk Management Program and file a Risk Management Plan for its ethanol production facility at Atkinson, Neb. As part of an administrative civil settlement with EPA Region 7, NEDAK Ethanol has also agreed to spend at least ...
-
EU-wide introduction of E10 is the most cost effective way to decarbonise the European transport sector
Hungarian report highlights that European renewable ethanol is the most cost effective way to decarbonise the European transport sector and should be promoted further. In a new report1 HEFTA Research Institute found that the C02 abatement cost of ethanol is negative (-2 €/t C02eq) when the energy efficiency gains of E10, a petrol blend containing up to 10% ethanol, are accounted for. As a ...
-
Global Warming Is Creating Surprise Investment Winners
Global warming concerns are going to create some surprise winners and losers says the McIlvaine Company in its World Market for Your Products. The conventional wisdom is that suppliers of coal-fired boilers and associated equipment will be the losers. McIlvaine provides details as to why these suppliers will actually benefit from carbon taxes or other programs to reduce greenhouse gases. ...
-
Karanj and Jatropha: Key Elements of New Biofuel Mission in India
Karanj and Jatropha are the two plants India is emphasizing on for promoting alternative energy sources, as the country launches a nationwide biofuel mission. A committee of experts was set up by the Federal Planning Commission, which will study and suggest measures for the promotion of biofuels’ development. In a recent report submitted by the committee before the commission, the ...
By RNCOS
-
Earth Day 2009: Green technologies and buildings bloom on the US`s National Mall
EPA will hold the 5th Annual National Sustainable Design Expo, which will display new sustainable or green technologies. More than 40 college teams and other exhibitors from across the country will show their innovative solutions for an environmentally sustainable future, including generating ethanol from coffee production wastewater, embedding small glass spheres in house paint to deflect heat ...
-
How green is ethanol made from sugarcane?
A recent study has concluded that expanding the amount of land in Brazil used to grow sugarcane for ethanol could have serious environmental and social consequences. It could lead to more pressure on natural rainforest if sugarcane displaces other crops northwards, degraded soil and water supplies, and exploitation of workers in the industry. Brazil provides an important case-study for policy ...
-
EPA proposes to defer GHG permitting requirements for industries that use biomass/agency aims for science-based, reasonable approach to biomass
Following through on a January 2011 commitment, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to defer, for three years, Clean Air Act permitting requirements for carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from bioenergy and other biogenic sources. This additional time will allow the agency to conduct a detailed examination of the science on this issue. Seeking advice of federal partners, ...
-
Ethanol producer to pay $136,500 for risk management and chemical reporting violations at Aberdeen and Huron, S.D. facilities
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that Advanced BioEnergy, LLC, based in Bloomington, Minn., has agreed to pay penalties totaling $136,500 to settle claims related to violations at its Huron and Aberdeen, S.D. ethanol production facilities. The violations are related to the facilities’ risk management programs and the failure to properly file Toxic Release Inventory ...
-
GreenShift Files Motion to Amend Complaints
GreenShift Corporation (OTCQB: GERS) announced it has filed motions to amend its complaints against all defendants, including Colwich, Kansas-based ICM, Inc., in GreenShift’s ongoing litigation for infringement of GreenShift’s patented corn oil extraction processes. GreenShift’s current complaint alleges that ICM is infringing U.S. Patent No. ...
-
EPA settles with two Idaho facilities for chemical risk management planning violations
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has settled with two facilities in Idaho for alleged violations of the federal Clean Air Act Risk Management Program. The settlements include a $83,497 penalty for Pacific Ethanol Magic Valley, LLC and a $101,000 penalty for Land View, Inc. The federal Clean Air Act (sec. 112r) requires that all public and private facilities that manufacture, ...
-
Environment Canada and health Canada issue CEPA orders
Environment Canada and Health Canada issued three draft orders to designate Bisphenol A (BPA) and other substances as toxic under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA). The designations follow screening assessments of the substances that indicated they pose risk or potential risk to the environment or human health, the departments stated in statements published with the draft ...
-
U.S. EPA Seeks Public Comment on Proposed Permit for Carbon Sequestration Injection Well in Decatur, Illinois
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is accepting public comment on a proposed permit that would allow Archer Daniels Midland to inject carbon dioxide deep underground at a facility in Decatur, Illinois. This process – known as “carbon sequestration” – is a means of storing carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change. The public comment period ...
-
Preventing soil erosion in continuous corn
With recent increase in the cost of energy and subsequent explorations into alternative energy sources, the increased harvest of corn residue for cellulosic ethanol production is likely in the future. This may be especially true in fields where corn is grown continuously, in part because perennially high residue amounts favor annual harvests, and also because corn residue left on the soil surface ...
-
Sales Of Filtration Membranes And Equipment To Reach $11 Billion In 2011
Consumer and industrial demands for clean water will drive the market for cross-flow membrane systems and replacement membranes to over $11 billion in 2011 up from $8.3 billion in 2007. These forecasts are displayed in the McIlvaine Company online report, RO/UF/MF World Markets. Forecasts are segmented by membrane type and efficiency. Reverse Osmosis is the most efficient membrane and ...
-
All nations must share blame or lose climate battle
The developing world’s most polluting nations must abandon the decades-old rhetoric that blames rich countries for climate change and share responsibility for reducing emissions to avoid dangerous overheating, according to Brazil’s best-known scientist. José Goldemberg, who took office as president of the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) this month, named Brazil, ...
Need help finding the right suppliers? Try XPRT Sourcing. Let the XPRTs do the work for you