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Peru</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/plateforme-biocarburants_all/~3/jiOGStTySqE/index.php</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 09:45:45 +0100</pubDate><description>In Peru, the nation's largest sugar producer is to start manufacturing ethanol. By the end of 2011, Gloria S.A. is to produce ethanol at two of its sugar mills; Casa Grande and Complejo Agroindustrial Cartavo.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.plateforme-biocarburants.ch/actualites/index.php?id=6941</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>NBB promotes biodiesel with a multi-million dollar outreach</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/plateforme-biocarburants_all/~3/scUQCxlaQ8Y/index.php</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 09:45:06 +0100</pubDate><description>In its largest effort yet to raise awareness of biodiesel, the National Biodiesel Board is launching a multi-million dollar campaign to highlight to its economic, environmental and national security advantages. The national outreach includes a television advert, which features a school bus and the tag line: "Biodiesel: America's advanced biofuel". Also part of the awareness investment is radio advertising and a new website. "The public generally doesn't know that there is an advanced biofuel here now", says Joe Jobe, CEO of the National Biodiesel Board. He continues: "This is not some pipedream. Biodiesel today is fuelling long-haul trucks from Florida to California, municipal buses in Texas, Ford pickups in Detroit and Volkswagens in New York."</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.plateforme-biocarburants.ch/actualites/index.php?id=6940</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>STX Finland to power cargo ship fully on biofuels</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/plateforme-biocarburants_all/~3/eHSK6mFZfZc/index.php</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 09:43:45 +0100</pubDate><description>In Finland, STX Finland has contracted Wärtsilä to supply three liquid biofuel powered main engines for Aura II, its new cargo ship that is expected to be the first in Europe to run on permanently on biofuels and should be delivered next spring. The biofuel to supply the ship will come from the Uusikaupunki refinery in southwest Finland that is owned by Meriaura Group which will own the ship.  Though the engines will run on biofuels, should the need arise they can switch to marine diesel.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.plateforme-biocarburants.ch/actualites/index.php?id=6939</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Biofuel use in Germany plunges as oilseeds gain</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/plateforme-biocarburants_all/~3/EoZSvkSv_BE/index.php</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 09:43:01 +0100</pubDate><description>Biofuel consumption in Germany declined 18% in April because of scarce supplies and rising prices for rapeseed and oil made from the seed, Hamburg-based oilseeds analyst Oil World said. Blenders mixed less biodiesel with regular fuel as the price of rapeseed gained 33% in the past year, Oil World said today in a report. Ethanol mixed into fuel fell by 11% in the year through April as Germans shunned the product, according to the report. Biofuel production totaled 194'000 tons in April, down from 238'000 tons a year earlier, the researcher said. "Demand for certified rapeseed oil mainly of German origin for biodiesel production reportedly increased to record levels", Oil World said. "The declining usage of biodiesel is largely attributable to scarce supplies and high prices of rapeseed and rapeseed oil."</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.plateforme-biocarburants.ch/actualites/index.php?id=6938</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>La récolte d'été bénéfique pour l'algo-carburant</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/plateforme-biocarburants_all/~3/AS7QR_DIL5I/index.php</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:45:53 +0100</pubDate><description>La culture du varech (Laminaria digitata), encore appelé goémon (algue de couleur brune), pourrait s'avérer être une alternative intéressante face à la biomasse terrestre, pour produire du biocarburant, à condition de profiter pleinement de son potentiel chimique au bon moment. En effet, la récolte du varech en juillet permettrait d'assurer une libération optimale du sucre quand les teneurs en glucides sont à leur plus haut. "Les glucides et les sucres solubles sont stockables et restent convertibles en éthanol dans un processus de fermentation, donc nous devons y recourir autant que se faire", a expliqué le Dr Jessica Adams, chercheur principal à l'Université d'Aberystwyth. "Les métaux peuvent également inhiber la fermentation, c'est pourquoi nous voulons un taux le plus faible qu'il soit." Après avoir prélevé tous les mois, des échantillons de laminaires sur les côtes galloises, les chercheurs l'ont analysé chimiquement dans le but d'évaluer la variabilité saisonnière. Leurs résultats qui ont été présentés le 4 Juillet 2011, à la Conférence annuelle des expériences biologiques à Glasgow, ont montré que juillet restait le meilleur mois pour une récolte en vue d'une production de biocarburants, quand le varech contient les plus fortes proportions de glucides pour une teneur en métal la plus faible possible.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.plateforme-biocarburants.ch/actualites/index.php?id=6937</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>L'aéronautique en quête de biocarburants durables</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/plateforme-biocarburants_all/~3/OIVPmdv4GEI/index.php</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 09:54:21 +0100</pubDate><description>Si l'avion Solar Impulse a réalisé le mois dernier son premier vol presque exclusivement solaire pour l'inauguration du Salon International de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace à Paris, ce sont les biocarburants qui ont marqué un tournant dans l'histoire du salon et de l'aéronautique. En effet, pour la première fois, le salon du Bourget a dédié un espace d'exposition, de rencontres et de conférences aux entreprises de carburants alternatifs aéronautiques afin de permettre aux acteurs des biofuels et aux investisseurs de se rencontrer. "Le bilan est très positif", explique Guillaume Jaubert, directeur commercial du salon. "Les carburants alternatifs ont bénéficié d'une tribune inégalée jusque-là. Ces rencontres devraient permettre d'accélérer les recherches et les investissements productifs." Car, s'il existe déjà des certifications de biocarburants - un Boeing 747-8 Freighter réalisait récemment le premier vol transatlantique au biocarburant - on en est encore à l'étape artisanale.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.plateforme-biocarburants.ch/actualites/index.php?id=6936</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Have biofuels caused indirect land use change?</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/plateforme-biocarburants_all/~3/vMCpM3bnKvk/index.php</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 09:51:54 +0100</pubDate><description>International change in land use has been a careful consideration in the cost and benefit analysis of biofuel production. Indirect Land Use Change (iLUC) is the term many experts use in discussion of this topic. The general idea of iLUC is that natural areas across the globe may be converted to cropland to replace crops that are being used to produce biofuels. While this topic seems relatively clear at first glance, it is complicated by factors such as the type of ecosystem that is being converted, such as forest and grassland. Therefore, assumptions are used in predicting the change in land use. Extensive computer models use different assumptions which result in a wide range of predictions. A recent article published in Biomass and Bioenergy (2011), authored by Bruce Dale and Kim Seungdo from Michigan State University, discusses iLUC using historical data and very limited assumptions.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.plateforme-biocarburants.ch/actualites/index.php?id=6935</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Petrobras expands in biofuel world</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/plateforme-biocarburants_all/~3/ow6T5iIq7sk/index.php</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 09:50:43 +0100</pubDate><description>Brazilian state-run energy firm Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. or Petrobras acquired a 50% stake in a local biodiesel company BSBIOS Industria e Comercio de Biodiesel Sul Brasil S.A. for 200 million Brazilian reals or $128.4 million. Petrobras executed the deal through its subsidiary Petrobras Biocombustível S.A. Located at Passo Fundo, the acquired company owns a biodiesel facility which is integrated with a vegetable oil extraction unit and has an annual production capacity of 42 million gallons of fuel. The unit is well connected by railroad terminals and a distribution base for smooth delivery and marketing of biodiesel.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.plateforme-biocarburants.ch/actualites/index.php?id=6934</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Canada: Entrée en vigueur de l'exigence relative au biodiesel</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/plateforme-biocarburants_all/~3/n-7uARDoTxA/index.php</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 09:49:06 +0100</pubDate><description>Ottawa va de l'avant avec l'exigence d'une teneur de 2% en carburant renouvelable dans le carburant diesel et le mazout de chauffage. Si l'exigence est entrée en vigueur le 1er juillet dernier, celle-ci comporte certaines exemptions. Soulignant les "problèmes logistiques" relatifs au mélange de biodiesel à Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador, une exemption permanente est accordée en ce qui concerne la teneur en carburant renouvelable dans le carburant diesel et le mazout de chauffage vendus dans cette région. Du côté du carburant diesel et du mazout de chauffage vendus au Québec et dans les provinces de l'Atlantique, des exemptions temporaires au sujet de la teneur en carburant renouvelable seront accordées jusqu'au 31 décembre 2012. Les raffineries de l'Est disposeront ainsi d'une période de 18 mois pour l'installation de l'infrastructure de mélange du biodiesel.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.plateforme-biocarburants.ch/actualites/index.php?id=6933</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Petrobras acquires 50% stake in biodiesel producer</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/plateforme-biocarburants_all/~3/5h_WYIHm_sY/index.php</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 21:02:21 +0100</pubDate><description>In Brazil, a wholly owned subsidiary of energy giant Petrobras, Petrobras Biocombustível S.A. - Pbio, has purchased a 50% stake in a biodiesel plant for $128 million (€88 million). The plant is located in Rio Grande do Sul and owned by BSBIOS Indústria e Commércio de Biodiesel Sul Brasil. The biodiesel production plant is able to produce 42 million gallons a year of biodiesel from vegetable oil.</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.plateforme-biocarburants.ch/actualites/index.php?id=6932</feedburner:origLink></item></channel></rss>

