Overigens gebeurde dat op een perfect moment. Het Midden-Amerikaanse land is hard bezig het handelscentrum van de regio te worden. ‘Panama is ontzettend in ontwikkeling, het is ongelooflijk. In Nederland doen we er ongeveer 20 jaar over om een stukje aan de A2 toe te voegen. Hier doen ze dat zo’n beetje in twee weken. Het gaat hier allemaal zo ontzettend snel, dat is heel intrigerend.’
Ethanol plant design company ICM, Inc. of Colwich, Kansas has designed and constructed equipment for a “one gallon per minute ethanol plant” currently under construction in Mozambique that will use locally grown cassava as a feedstock. The project is part of CleanStar Mozambique, a company founded by Novozymes and CleanStar Ventures to protect forests, produce food, deliver energy, [...]
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No Comments »PetroVietnam to export 85% of fuel ethanol production over 2011-2013 Platts According to the source, commissioning works at the cassava-based plant would take around one-and-a-half months, and the company expects to startup commercially in November. PetroVietnam will also bring on stream another 100 million liter/year fuel …
Posted in Ethanol and Sustainability Tags: cassava, ethanol, export, fuel, News, PetroVietnam, production No Comments »Businesses agonise over 20% interest Viet Nam News Targeting a reduction in the consumption of fossil fuels, Viet Nam has rolled out a number of projects to produce ethanol from dried cassava that can be mixed with petrol. But this has had a negative impact on the sugar industry since, in the 2010-2011 … [...]
Posted in Cassava News, Ethanol and Sustainability Tags: cassava, dried, ethanol, interest, News, Viet No Comments »Biogas engines to power China’s largest ethanol plant Power-Gen Worldwide Owned by Henan Tianguan Group, the new ethanol production plant will produce 500 000 m3 of biogas per day, based on organic material from cassava plants. A 36 MW on-site power plant based on Jenbacher engines is being built in multiple phases to … and [...]
A new project in Cambodja– which is also set to include a processing factory – aims to produce 150,000 tonnes of cassava per year, largely for export to China. “We hope the project will be successful, which can create a new market for farmers to sell their products and to earn more income for the [...]
Companies from the US, Europe and elsewhere are racing toward commercial-scale production of biofuels that utilize a variety of new technologies and processes. This is excellent news for those interested in the growth of clean, renewable fuels. However, as companies scale up, they face the challenge of securing long-term supplies of affordable feedstock in quantities [...]
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Cassava (Manihot Esculenta), otherwise known as manioc, tapioca, yuca and many other names, is a root vegetable coming from a shrubby perennial plant thought to be native to Brazil. Cassava is most well known for tapioca pudding, which uses a pearl form of flaked starch extracted from cassava. Plant Appearance The plant itself can grow [...]
Posted in Agro2 Updates, Cassava News Tags: alcohol, Brazil, cassava, esculenta, ethanol, fresh, manihot, manioc, tapioca, yuca 1 Comment »This is the home of Agro2‘s “Finca La Vecina” cassava plantation and test garden, also known as its Moestuin, the dutch word for “garden.” This will also be the future site of the Agro2 ethanol and flour plant, and is currently the site of Agro2′s waxed cassava and peeled cassava processing plants. This week we [...]
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Agro2‘s Finca La Vecina houses our Santiago office, as well as our cassava processing plant , and is the future site of our 6,000 L/day ethanol and flour dual processing plant. The site was completed in October, and we are currently in the process of construction the concrete floor for our pilot ethanol production. In [...]
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