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First A319neo flight with 100 percent sustainable aviation fuel
Nov 02, 2021 (SPX)
During the flight test over the Toulouse region on 28 October, one CFM LEAP-1A engine of an Airbus A319neo test aircraft operated on 100% SAF. Initial results f...
Biofilters designed for space convert liquid manure into high-quality fertilisers
Oct 18, 2021 (SPX)
"C.R.O.P. is a purely organic method of processing nitrogen-containing wastewater into a fertiliser solution," explains Project Manager Tim Paulke of the DLR In...
Crucial step identified in the conversion of biomass to methane
Oct 04, 2021 (SPX)
The former converts so-called primary fermentation products from biomass decomposition, including fatty acids into intermediate products such as acetic acid, fo...
S-92 helicopter completes first flight using biofuel
Sep 28, 2021 (SPX)
This approval occurs as companies across the aviation industry are taking steps to meet environmental challenges, including transitioning to sustainable aviatio...
Researchers want to breed a sorghum variety that captures more carbon
Sep 15, 2021 (SPX)
The work, which will first involve gaining a better understanding of the genetics of sorghum, fits into the broader goal of HPI to address climate change by opt...
Climate change risking availability of key alternative fuel source, study says
Sep 07, 2021 (UPI)
The research, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, says that rising temperatures risk reducing the opportunities to maximize use of biomass -- which is pl...
UMD to create sustainable biofuels and bioplastics from food waste with DOE grant
Sep 02, 2021 (SPX)
At the same time, products like plastics and traditional sources of fuel rely on fossil fuels, which are finite and costly to the environment. With these two gr...
Marginal land available for bioenergy crops much scarcer than previously estimated
Sep 02, 2021 (SPX)
A recent study led by Chongya Jiang, a University of Illinois Research Scientist at the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI), shows ...
Zeolites make for efficient production of pentanoic biofuels
Sep 02, 2021 (SPX)
Pentanoic esters, produced from lignocellulose-derived levulinic acid (LA), have been identified as promising biofuels due to its high energy density and superi...
Bacteria may hold key for energy storage, biofuels
Sep 01, 2021 (SPX)
The answer may come in a small package; a bacteria called Shewanella oneidensis. The microbe takes electrons into its metabolism, and uses the energy to make es...
Biofuel potential from wastewater ponds
Aug 31, 2021 (SPX)
The high-rate algal pond (HRAP) model, recycling wastewater at two low rainfall areas in regional South Australia, uses algae and bacteria to treat the wastewat...
Turning hazelnut shells into potential renewable energy source
Aug 25, 2021 (SPX)
In Journal for Renewable and Sustainable Energy, researchers from Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Machinery Sciences in China share their work on the physi...
NASA awards $750,000 in competition to convert carbon dioxide into sugar
Aug 25, 2021 (SPX)
On Mars, there aren't plants and oceans, but there is an abundance of CO2. NASA's CO2 Conversion Challenge invited the public to come up with ways to convert th...
Maersk orders eight carbon-neutral container ships
Aug 24, 2021 (AFP)
Maersk said in a statement that it will introduce the "groundbreaking" ocean-going vessels, capable of operating on carbon-neutral methanol, in the first quarte...
Faster and cheaper ethanol-to-jet-fuel on the horizon
Aug 20, 2021 (SPX)
Two key technologies power the energy-efficient fuel production units. A single-step chemical conversion streamlines what is currently a multi-step process. The...
Drink and drive: whisky waste powers Scottish trucks
Aug 11, 2021 (AFP)
In a warehouse at the bottom end of The Glenfiddich Distillery in Dufftown, draff -- one of the by-products of whisky making -- is tipped out of the back of a t...
Stinkweed could make a cleaner bio-jet fuel, study finds
Aug 03, 2021 (SPX)
Growing the weed, pennycress - often called stinkweed - as a crop requires less fertilizer and fewer pesticides than other plants that can be used to make renew...
Catalyzing the conversion of biomass to biofuel
Jul 27, 2021 (SPX)
Fuel made from biomass is considered to be climate-neutral, although energy is still needed to produce it: The desired chemical reactions require high levels of...
Airbus joins SAF+ Consortium to for sustainable aviation fuels
Jul 19, 2021 (SPX)
Today's announcement marks the launch of a new Canadian ecosystem dedicated to stimulating the production of SAF and connecting Airbus with prominent Canadian a...
Cleaner air has boosted US corn and soybean yields
Jul 12, 2021 (SPX)
The analysis, published this week in Environmental Research Letters, reveals that four key air pollutants are particularly damaging to crops, and accounted for ...
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