Iowa-based biodiesel maker Renewable Energy Group has bought up the biodiesel assets of Nova Biosource Fuels of Seneca, Illinois. This Security and Exchange Commission filing says REG will also assume Nova’s debts of about $36.25 million. Pursuant to the Seneca Asset Purchase Agreement, the Seneca Purchaser agreed to acquire substantially all of the Seneca Sellers’ assets, excluding certain specified assets, …
Biodiesel Board Renews Call for Incentive Renewal
The National Biodiesel Board has renewed its efforts to get Congress to renew the $1-a-gallon federal biodiesel tax incentive that expired at the end of 2009. In this latest move, the NBB has sent a letter to Congressional Leadership urging Congress to take immediate action to retroactively reinstate the incentive and was joined by the Petroleum Marketers Association of America; …
Iowa Biodiesel Backer Awards Applications Open
Another round of Biodiesel Backer Awards will be handed out by the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association to four K-12 Iowa schools at the 47th Annual School Transportation Conference and Trade Show in Des Moines on July 20. The $2,500 grants will go to Iowa schools that promote biodiesel: “Fueling school buses with clean, renewable biodiesel is a key component of …
Iowa Airs “Commercial” Success of Biodiesel
The organizations in Iowa that promote biodiesel are taking to the airwaves to promote the green fuel in the Hawkeye State. The Iowa Biodiesel Board, Iowa Soybean Association and Iowa Renewable Fuels Association are bringing some public service announcements to TV stations in Iowa to increase the awareness of the many benefits that biodiesel brings to Iowans: The 30 second …
Corn Oil from Ethanol Plant to Feed Biodiesel Refinery
Mansfield Oil Company has acquired East Fork Biodiesel of Algona, Iowa … a 60-million-gallon-a-year refinery that will get its feedstock of corn oil from Mansdfield’s network of C&N Companies ethanol plants in the Midwest. This company press release says this will give East Fork a cheap source of biodiesel feedstock while providing a market for those ethanol plants’ corn oil: …
Growth Design Biodiesel Plant Closer to Reality
A new biodiesel plant in Northern Iowa is closer to cranking out the green fuel. The 3-million-gallon-a-year Growth Design Corp. refinery planned for near Forest City, Iowa, as we told you about last month, could break ground next month, according to this story from KIMT-TV and would the first-of-its-kind facility in Iowa: It will use what’s called “the MCGYAN process,” …
Navy Gets Advanced Biodiesel Production System
On the heels of the U.S. Navy announcing closer cooperation with the USDA in the use of biofuels, an advanced biodiesel production system has been delivered to a Navy installation in California. This press release from Biodiesel Industries says Naval Base Ventura County has received the first ARIES biodiesel production system … a joint effort by the Navy, Biodiesel Industries …
USDA Watching and Waiting on Biodiesel Incentive
Federal ag department officials seem to be rooting for renewal of the $1-a-gallon biodiesel tax incentive to finally pass Congress … but no one from USDA is pressuring lawmakers to get the deal done. During yesterday’s event in Hawaii, where the U.S. Navy and USDA pledged to work together to produce more biofuels for the service’s renewable energy goals, reporters …
Heartland Develops Biodiesel Purification Column System
An Iowa-based maker of biodiesel production equipment has come up with a purification method that makes the handling and removal of purification media easier, safer and more efficient for biodiesel plant operators. This article from Biodiesel Magazine says Heartland Biodiesel Supply’s patent-pending design got its inspiration from the water treatment industry where ion exchange resin is widely used: The same …
Researchers Turn Fungus into Biodiesel
New research has shown that biomass can be directly transformed into biodiesel that suits many quality standards, including ASTM D6751 and EN14213 and 14214. This post from GreenCarCongress.com says Spanish researchers Gemma Vicente and colleagues made the discovery that could open up many more feedstocks for biodiesel … but admit the process needs some work: Oils from oleaginous microorganisms, such …