China New Energy Buys 24% Stake In Hungarian Biorefinery Company - Visontai Bioetanol

The Hungarian biorefinery Visontai Bioetanol company is scheduled to enter production in 2017. The China New Energy (CNE) will provide proprietary pre-treatment, fermentation, distillation and dehydration technology to the project. It will also provide long-term training, support and maintenance.

The Hungarian biorefinery is set to start operating in 2017 after a 13-month construction period. The contract value for CNE is about 34 million euros, of which 11 million euros will be paid to local subcontractors.

China New Energy has constructed more than 100 (fuel) ethanol, bio-butanol production plant projects since its foundation. 

According to CNE’s website, all projects passed trial run at the first time and are running well. As the technical leader in the industry, the company’s domestic market share is over 60%, and ranks first since 2004. 

Over the years CNE’S business activity has been expanded to ASEAN and EU markets as well as in South Asia and Chinese Taipei.

Source: Hungary Today

Testing the many faces of bio economics

This frightening picture is reminding me about a blog visualizing microbes and bacteria.

I hope to find those representations soon to have a model.

Nevertheless, we’re going to create our own picture and graphics gallery.

We need to invest time in creating cartoons and images.

There’re tons of pictures describing process technology solutions, but the challenge is to create visual effects to show events that aren’t visible to the eye.

Juha Mentu does have pictures from microscopic “body counts”.

We’ve the artistic freedom to show the mystery of microbial activity with inventive graphical effects.

Biofuel made from Wood

Another good alternative to produce Biofuel is to use wood as the raw material. There are three basic approaches that are the most promising for making liquid fuels from wood. These are producing: methanol, ethanol, and diesel fuel (of course other liquid fuels from wood are possible to produce).

Currently Shell and Choren Industries finished building a manufacturing plant for BTL (biomass-to-liquid). In this plant forest residues, waste wood, fast-growing timber and agricultural residues can be used as biomass for production purposes (Choren).

There are four significant reasons why wood fuel has been proven to be beneficial (LC Energy):

• It is inexpensive (cheaper than domestic gas, oil, LPG and electricity).

• It will not run out if it comes from sustainable woodlands.

• It is carbon neutral (90% less than when burning fossils).

• It reduces the dependence on fuel imports and price uncertainty

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As said before, wood burning doesn’t release more CO2 than when it biodegrades; therefore it doesn’t add more pollution to the environment.

A problem that might rise, if biofuel from wood is mass-produced, is that the companies have to be aware that they should cut trees sustainably. Because if all the forest where felled, it will lead to deforestation and habitat destruction. As a result of that possibility there has to be a conservation plan in all companies that allows chopping some trees to produce biofuels, but then re-foresting the area and taking care of the animal and plant species that live there.

World Water Week, Stockholm, August 17 - 23, 2oo8

In the fast growing urban areas of the developing world, clean, efficient infrastructure and management of sanitation and waste facilities will require considerable up-front financial investments.

The economic, social and environmental benefits down the road will far outweigh this initial expenditure.

The World Water Week will take place in Stockholm, August 17 - 23, 2oo8. For a staggering 2,6 billion people, lack of access to adequate sanitation is a major and daily threat to their health and well-being.

This bears tremendous social and environmental costs, of which premature deaths, degradation of living quarters and the environment, and reduced access to education are but the few.

Parallell global trends - population and economic growth, increasing energy demand, changing diets, etc. - increase the amount of water required for development.

While increased agricultural production for food and bioenergy represent interesting new sources of income for rural farmers all over the world, these opportunities must take into account the water-constrained biophysical reality of the planet.

Reducing fossil fuel use will increase demand for bioenergy production. While the second generation of bioethanol may be produced on wastelands or from cellulose, croplands may also be converted for their production.

This increases competition for land and water resources. Climate change mitigation will increase the demand for biomass-based carbon sequestration.

Source: www.worldwaterweek.org