BIO FUEL

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Fuel from waste wood
Mar 30, 2022 (SPX)
In collaboration with the Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology (LUT) in Finland, researchers at the Straubing Campus for Biotechnology and Sustainability...
Breaking down plastic into its constituent parts
Mar 29, 2022 (SPX)
However, while the formation of polymers is well established and well researched, scientists have given little attention to how polymer chains are broken down (...
Could we make cars out of petroleum residue?
Mar 19, 2022 (SPX)
Lightweight materials made from carbon fiber, similar to the material used for some tennis rackets and bicycles, combine exceptional strength with low weight, b...
Conversion process turns pollution into cash
Mar 19, 2022 (SPX)
UC College of Engineering and Applied Science assistant professor Jingjie Wu and his students used a two-step cascade reaction to convert carbon dioxide to carb...
Generating carbon-free fuels
Mar 11, 2022 (SPX)
Due to the intermittent nature of wind and solar energy electricity, there is a need to develop methods to convert renewable electricity into a carbon-free fuel...
New, nature-inspired concepts for turning CO2 into clean fuels
Mar 01, 2022 (SPX)
The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, have previously shown that biological catalysts, or enzymes, can produce fuels cleanly using renewable energy...
Basis for next-gen bioprocesses
Feb 24, 2022 (SPX)
Prof. Blombach's team at TUM Campus Straubing for Biotechnology and Sustainability is investigating ways to use this marine bacteria to make production processe...
Scientists use green solvent and natural pigment to produce bioplastic
Feb 18, 2022 (SPX)
With similar applications to those of conventional plastics derived from oil, gas and coal, which take hundreds of years to decompose, sustainable bioplastics p...
Breakthrough in converting CO2 into fuel using solar energy
Feb 17, 2022 (SPX)
The sunlight that hits Earth during one hour corresponds roughly to humanity's total energy consumption for an entire year. Our global carbon dioxide emissions ...
At bioenergy crossroads, should corn ethanol be left in the rearview mirror?
Feb 17, 2022 (SPX)
Fifteen years on, research led by the University of Wisconsin-Madison assessed the environmental impacts of corn ethanol and the policy that governs it, using a...
Steering conversion of CO2 and ethane to desired products
Feb 10, 2022 (SPX)
In a study just published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, chemists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, Columbi...
The path to renewable fuel just got easier
Feb 03, 2022 (SPX)
Now, a research team at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has developed a system that does just that. PNNL's electrocatalytic oxi...
Reducing methane emissions at landfills
Feb 03, 2022 (SPX)
At the center of Loci's (pronounced "low-sigh") system is a lunchbox-sized device that attaches to methane collection wells, which vacuum the methane up to the ...
LSU chemists unlock the key to improving biofuel and biomaterial production
Jan 28, 2022 (SPX)
In a new study published in Nature Communications, LSU Department of Chemistry Associate Professor Tuo Wang and his research team reveal how carbohydrates inter...
Getting hydrogen out of banana peels
Jan 26, 2022 (SPX)
A main candidate is hydrogen produced from organic waste, or "biomass", of plants and animals. Biomass also absorbs, removes, and stores CO2 from the atmosphere...
Creating sustainable material from waste
Jan 21, 2022 (SPX)
For instance, a better bio-based milk jug would be great. However, if the milk sells for $20 per gallon because the cost of the jug increases from $1 to $17, no...
Scientists build bioreactors and engineer bacteria to advance biofuel research
Jan 21, 2022 (SPX)
Commercial equipment used to study biofuel-producing bacteria can be prohibitively expensive, which prompted the team to build their own bioreactors that are ac...
Mapping the photosynthetic properties of the fastest growing alga in the world
Jan 20, 2022 (SPX)
The study's findings indicate that the main factors behind the plant's rapid photosynthesis rate lie in its efficient metabolic processes. The researchers found...
Air France-KLM adds biofuel surcharge to plane tickets
Jan 10, 2022 (AFP)
Air France said that the fuel levy would be added to tickets from January 10. Travellers in economy class will pay between one and four euros more while those i...
From the oilfield to the lab: How a special microbe turns oil into gases
Jan 01, 2022 (SPX)
This "miracle microbe" breaks down oil into methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2). "Methanoliparia is a kind of hybrid creature that combines the properties of...
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