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Profit in the Canada Biofuel Industry

Canada Biofuels Market Potential
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Biofuel is any fuel that is derived from biomass - recently living organisms or their metabolic byproducts, such as manure from cows. It is a renewable energy source, unlike other natural resources such as petroleum, coal, and nuclear fuels. 

Ethanol is manufactured from microbial conversion of biomass materials through fermentation. Ethanol contains 35% oxygen. The production process consists of conversion of biomass to fermentable sugars, fermentation of sugars to ethanol, and the separation and purification of the ethanol. Fermentation initially produces ethanol containing a substantial amount of water. Distillation removes the majority of water to yield about 95% purity ethanol, the balance being water. This mixture is called hydrous ethanol. If the remaining water is removed in a further process, the ethanol is called anhydrous ethanol and is suitable for blending into gasoline. Ethanol is "denatured" prior to leaving the plant to make it unfit for human consumption by addition of a small amount of products such as gasoline. 

Biodiesel fuels are oxygenated organic compounds - methyl or ethyl esters - derived from 
a variety of renewable sources such as vegetable oil, animal fat, and cooking oil. The oxygen contained in biodiesel makes it unstable and requires stabilization to avoid storage problems. Rapeseed methyl ester (RME) diesel, derived from rapeseed oil, is the most common biodiesel fuel available in Europe. In the United States, biodiesel from soybean oil, called soy methyl ester diesel, is the most common biodiesel. Collectively, these fuels are referred to as fatty acid methyl esters (FAME). 

Biofuels have become a growth industry with worldwide production more than doubling in the last five years. The rapid expansion of ethanol production in the United States and biodiesel production (and to a lesser extent, biogas) in Germany and other countries in Western Europe has created a biofuels frenzy that has affected many countries, including Canada. Many measures have been used to stimulate production and consumption of biofuels, including preferential taxation, subsidies, import tariffs and consumption mandates. Recently, Canadian federal and provincial governments have announced consumption mandates and subsidies to assist rapid expansion of biofuel production in Canada. 

Canada has considerable natural resources and is one of the world's largest producers and 
exporters of energy. In 2006, Canada produced 21.1 quadrillion British Thermal Units (Btu) of total energy, the fifth largest amount in the world. Since 1980, Canada's total energy production has increased by 86%, while its total energy consumption has increased by only 48% during that period. Almost all of Canada's energy exports go to the United States, making it the largest foreign source of U.S. energy imports: Canada is consistently among the top sources for U.S. oil imports, and it is the largest source of U.S. natural gas and electricity imports. Recognizing the importance of the energy trade between the two countries, both participate in the North American Energy Working Group, which seeks to improve energy integration and cooperation between Canada, the U.S., and Mexico. 

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Mitsubishi expands wood pellet holdings

By Ryan C. Christiansen

Web exclusive posted Sept. 26, 2008 at 10:32 a.m. CST

Mitsubishi Corp., Japan's largest general trading company with offices in 80 countries, has acquired a 45 percent stake in Vis Nova Trading GmbH, a manufacturer in Bremen, Germany, that produces wood pellets from waste wood. Mitsubishi invested $8.2 million in VNT and intends to be actively involved in the company's management, Mitsubishi said.

VNT owns and operates a manufacturing facility and several distribution facilities in Germany. The company supplies 180,000 metric tons of wood pellets per year to electric power companies in the European Union. According to Mitsubishi, VNT plans to build additional factories and achieve 500,000 metric tons in wood pellet sales by 2010.

In addition to VNT, Mitsubishi has established two 25,000-ton wood pellet manufacturers in Japan, including Forest Energy HITA Co. Ltd. and Forest Energy Kadogawa Co. Ltd. The company said that the wood pellet industry has grown at a rate of 20 percent over the last few years and demand for wood pellets is expected to increase from the current six million metric tons per year to over 40 million metric tons by 2020. Mitsubishi plans to set up manufacturing plants in North America, South America, and Asia.

South Korea to Pump US$103 Bln Into Renewable Energy

SOUTH KOREA: August 28, 2008

SEOUL - South Korea said on Wednesday it will spend 111.5 trillion won
(US$103 billion) through 2030 in developing new renewable energy, in
an effort to cut its reliance on fossil fuels and reduce carbon
dioxide (CO2) emissions.

The plan is part of the government's long-term energy strategy and
will come on top of other energy policies and overseas resource
development plans.

"(South Korea) will lower the portion of fossil energy to 61 percent
by 2030 from the current 83 percent, while bumping up the portion of
new renewable energy to 11 percent from 2.4 percent," the Ministry of
Knowledge Economy said in a statement.

Under the plan, capacity for solar, wind, bio and geothermal power
generation will be expanded.

The statement was issued after an energy committee meeting presided
over by President Lee Myung-bak.

Of the planned 111.5 trillion won, the private sector is expected to
account for 76.3 trillion won, it added, without elaborating further.

South Korea also plans to boost its energy self-sufficiency rate to 40
percent by 2030 from the current 4.2 percent.

South Korea is the world's 10th-largest energy consumer and the No. 5
crude oil importer.

Last month, data showed that its energy imports surged to account of
one-third of total imports in the first half of this year because of
soaring oil prices.

(US$1=1082.0 Won)

(Reporting by Kim Yeon-hee; Editing by William Hardy)

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Welcome to the 'wonderfuel' world of wood pellets

Under the rather unlikely-sounding headline of "SCR Euro-4 Axor barks up the BioDiesel tree" Biglorryblog learns that environmentally-friendly heating pioneer The Energy Crops Company is underlining its 'green' credentials by running its new Mercedes six-wheeler on BioDiesel. And as you all know, (or should do by now following my recent blog on Volvo's green truck fleet) BioDiesel fuel is almost CO2 neutral. The Axor 2633's Euro 4 SCR engine will run on a 50:50 blend of the stuff with regular diesel and according to the press blurb '...as a result, its emissions are exceptionally low.'

The new 26-tonner has a custom-built tank body, with high-pressure blowing system, by Feldbinder UK, of Spalding and for those of you that are curious The Energy Crops Company was founded in 2005 to provide sustainable wood-fired heating solutions to a wide range of commercial and industrial customers and specialises in supplying woood pellet fuel and, through its network of partners, offers a complete service for converting to biomass heating.

While it's still in its infancy in the UK, apparently the wood pellet industry is well established on the Continent and particularly popular in Austria, Germany and Scandinavia. The dried pellets are produced from wood taken from sustainable forests and are a carbon neutral heat source, the CO2 absorbed by trees during growth cancelling out that emitted when they are burnt.

The pellets require specially adapted biomass boilers but I am told are highly efficient, producing twice as much energy as 'wet' wood – 1kg of pellets provides as much heat as a 1 kilowatt electric fire running for five hours. And not a lot of people know that.

The new Axor has a maximum payload of 16 tonnes and will work on a contract with Nottinghamshire County Council which, over the last three years, has converted coal-fired boilers in 15 of its schools to wood pellet units; following the award of a £500,000 Bioenergy Capital Grant, more schools are now due to follow.