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The food prices maintain upward trend at the beginning of 2011 in China, which means that the shortage of raw material for food industry may continue haunting for a while. In order to guarantee food security, more new kinds of raw materials are introduced in bio-energy industry to replace corn in the future. Among them, algae is the most promising alternative.

Thanks to algae's fast growing speed, China has started to promote its algae-based energy as early as 2005, however, it did not occupy any farmland. Besides, many enterprises such as ENN Group also entered into the algae-based energy field. ENN Group announced that it would realize commercialization of its algae-based diesel by 2014.

Algae culturing is the foundation of algae-based diesel industry, the costs of which may take up about 40% of the total in algae-based diesel. However, lots of breeding work of algae is still in the R&D stage in China and the algae strains from this work are not qualified for industrialization at present. Aiming to culture a desired algae strain for industrialization, it is suggested that the whole gene network for algae should be figured out before genetic modification. Moreover, the culturing technology of algae is another bottleneck for the development of algae-based diesel. Currently, photobioreactor is still immature and lack of relevant criteria or evaluation system to be regulated globally (including China).

Table of contents:

Bio-fuel
1. Bio-dynamic Group announces fuel ethanol production plan.

2. Bio-Dynamic Group announces fuel ethanol production plan in cooperation with Shanghai Zhongwei utilizing kenaf as raw material.

3. China Integrated Energy plans to construct 300,000t/a biodiesel production line in Hainan Province.

5. Domestic closed photobioreactors for algae culturing still in R&D stage.

6. China working on breeding of oil-producing algae

Bio-products
7. Henan Tianguan’s new yeast project faces challenges

8. MEOR may bring in new hope for domestic oil recovery industry

Bio-based chemicals
9. Tianjin Tianyao plans to buy out API amino acid business from Tianjin Tianan

10. Domestic succinic acid market to boost

11. Domestic butanol price trend in February
The domestic butanol prices are estimated to be stable or see little fluctuation before the Chinese traditional Spring Festival but may rise unsteadily to around USD2,100/t at the end of February 2011.

Bio-materials
12. Shenzhen Rainbow Greenworld launches production of biodegradable products

13. Algae may provide another alternative as biomaterial raw material

14. Bio-plus Materials first develops high heat-resistance PLA foam domestically

News in Brief

1 Bio-plus Materials first develops high heat-resistance PLA foam domestically
2 Domestic closed photobioreactors for algae culturing still in R&D stage
3 China working on breeding of oil-producing algae
4 Henan Tianguan’s new yeast project faces challenges
5 Domestic succinic acid market to boost
6 Bio-dynamic Group announces fuel ethanol production plan