01 Sep 2023
The small municipality of Cantaracillo in Salamanca (Spain), with only 193 inhabitants, will host a biogas plant that will transform the manure from local livestock farms into biomethane and organic amendments for agricultural use. In it, up to 150,000 tons of bovine manure will be treated each year, which, through an upgrading process, can be injected into the natural gas distribution network. More than 20...
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09 Aug 2023
CARBIOW (Carbon Negative Biofuels from Organic Waste) is a Research and Innovation project funded by the European Union under the Horizon Europe Programme that addresses the green transition and circular economy by proposing novel technologies that cover the entire process of converting organic waste into biofuels. From BIOPLAT we are in charge of its communication and dissemination with actions such as the launch of this...
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26 Jul 2023
Emerging countries will lead the growth in demand for biofuels in 2023 and 2024, with India, Brazil and Indonesia as the main players, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). The latest report on renewable energy from this agency reflects that these three countries have large domestic reserves, additional production capacity, relatively low production costs and favourable policies with which they also intend to depend...
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30 Jun 2023
Renewable gases and their derivatives have avoided the emission of 500,000 tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere in the Iberian Peninsula in 2022. Decarbonising heavy transport involves, to a large extent, the use of renewable gases and their derivatives. This is one of the main conclusions of the report ‘The decarbonisation of heavy transport in Spain and Portugal’, carried out by the Institute for Technological...
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19 Jun 2023
The IRODDI project (Innovative Refining process for valorization of vegetable Oil Deodorizer DIstillates), funded by the Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) within the #Horizon2020 Research and Innovation programme of the European Union, held on 8 June 2023 its final conference under the title ‘Valorisation of vegetable oil refining by-products into sustainable bioproducts‘ and BIOPLAT, as responsible for communication and dissemination of the consortium,...
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05 Jun 2023
Costa Rica established its first national bioeconomy strategy in 2020 with its immense biological wealth as a cornerstone. The country is home to 6% of the world’s wildlife, despite occupying only 0.03% of its land area: it is one of the 17 so-called “megadiverse” countries. Costa Rica’s strategy aims to decarbonize the economy, replacing fossil resources with renewable and bio-based ones. The goal was to...
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23 May 2023
Biomethane production facilities increased by 30% in Europe in April 2023, to a total of 1,322 plants, according to the latest Biomethane Map 2022-2023 published by the European Biogas Association (EBA). With 299 new additions compared to the previous edition in 2021, this confirms the exponential year-on-year growth in this sector, which went from 483 plants in the 2018 edition to 729 in 2020 and...
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17 May 2023
In compliance with the framework of public awareness and sensitisation measures included in the 1st National Air Pollution Control Programme (PNCCA), the Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge has published new educational materials to promote healthy and environmentally sustainable habits and practices: A specific infographic has been produced to explain the general contents of the National Air Pollution Control Programme (PNCCA). Infographics have also...
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04 May 2023
The Spanish company Preco, a promoter member of BIOPLAT dedicated to the transformation of used plastic, has signed an agreement with the Finnish company Neste to supply it with a minimum of 20,000 tonnes of pyrolysis oil per year for the next few years. This supply, which will increase annually as the new plants that the Spanish company plans to install in Puertollano (Ciudad Real),...
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22 Apr 2023
On Earth Day, from Bioplat we want to highlight the benefits of biomass as a renewable resource that takes advantage of everything that nature gives us. Biomass is the organic matter from agricultural, forestry, livestock, industrial and domestic activities from which bioenergy (heat, electricity and biofuels for transportation) and bioproducts (such as bioplastics, animal feed or biofabrics among many others) can be generated, but its...
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