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A new strategy for efficient hydrogen production
Jan 02, 2018 (SPX)
This breakthrough has been led by Professor Guntae Kim in the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering at UNIST in collaboration with Professor Tak-Hyoung Lim ...
Microbes help turn Greek yogurt waste into fuel
Dec 19, 2017 (SPX)
"To be sustainable, you want to convert waste streams where they are made, and upstate New York is where the cows are, where the dairy farmers are, and where th...
NREL develops novel method to produce renewable acrylonitrile
Dec 14, 2017 (SPX)
Acrylonitrile, a petroleum-derived commodity chemical, is one of the most widely used monomers in the chemical industry with many commercial applications. Today...
NREL research finds a sweet spot for engineering better cellulose-degrading enzymes
Dec 13, 2017 (SPX)
The new research, which focuses on the enzyme Cel7A that breaks down cellulose in plants to sugars, is detailed in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sc...
Bristol scientists turn beer into fuel
Dec 12, 2017 (SPX)
It is commonly accepted that there is an urgent need for sustainable alternatives to fossil fuels for transportation to replace diesel and petrol. One of the mo...
Algae could feed and fuel planet with aid of new high-tech tool
Dec 12, 2017 (SPX)
Scientists have devised a method that could lead to cheap, environmentally friendly ways of making products for use in the cosmetics, plastics and food industri...
Hydrogen gas from enzyme production
Dec 11, 2017 (SPX)
They were able to demonstrate how the enzyme succeeds in transferring two electrons in succession to two hydrogen ions and thereby assume stable intermediate st...
Next generation solvent contributes to next generation biofuel production from biomass
Dec 07, 2017 (SPX)
As a result, the energy recovered in the ethanol so produced is less than that required to produce it, i.e., there is a negative energy balance (more production...
Researchers generate electricity from low-cost biomaterial
Dec 06, 2017 (SPX)
Scientists at UL's Bernal Institute have discovered that the biomolecule glycine, when tapped or squeezed, can generate enough electricity to power electrical d...
Breakthrough process for directly converting methane to methanol
Dec 04, 2017 (SPX)
Methanol is a key feedstock for the production of chemicals, some of which are used to make products such as plastics, plywood and paints. Methanol also can fue...
Brazilian ethanol can replace 13 percent of global crude oil consumption
Nov 29, 2017 (SPX)
These estimates come from an international study with Brazilian participation, whose results were published on October 2017 in the journal Nature Climate Change...
Convert methane to hydrogen without forming carbon dioxide at low-cost
Nov 28, 2017 (SPX)
To that end, a group at UC Santa Barbara has explored methods by which currently cheap and abundant methane (CH4) can be reduced to clean-burning hydrogen (H2) ...
Cleaning Okinawan pig farm wastewater with microbial fuel cells
Nov 22, 2017 (SPX)
However, in areas such as Okinawa, Japan, with limited land resources and a lot of pig farms, the amount of wastewater produced outweighs the land available for...
The water world of ancient photosynthetic organisms
Nov 22, 2017 (SPX)
Photosynthesis is the chemical conversion of sunlight into chemical energy via an electron transport chain essential to nearly all life on our planet. All plant...
Surrey develops new 'supercatalyst' to recycle carbon dioxide and methane
Nov 21, 2017 (SPX)
In a study published by the Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, scientists have described how they created an advanced nickel-based catalyst strengthened with t...
Coffee set to power London buses in green initiative
Nov 20, 2017 (AFP)
Some six thousand litres of oil extracted from ground coffee waste will be added to fuel tanks of the city's transport authority on Monday -- enough to power a ...
Desert solar to fuel centuries of air travel
Nov 17, 2017 (SPX)
Thermochemical solar fuel manufacturing would be an energy industry with a life of centuries, rather than decades. The feedstock of sunlight, carbon dioxide and...
To find new biofuel enzymes, it can take a microbial village
Nov 15, 2017 (SPX)
The study, recently published in the journal Nature Microbiology, reports on the discovery of new types of cellulases, enzymes that help break down plants into ...
Sandia speeds transformation of biofuel waste into wealth
Nov 13, 2017 (SPX)
Lignin, the tough material left over from biofuel production, contains compounds that can be converted into products like nylon, plastics and drugs. It is one o...
Study identifies additional hurdle to widespread planting of bioenergy crops
Nov 06, 2017 (SPX)
Most studies have not examined the role of the option value, which has to do with farmers waiting to see how bioenergy crop prices will change in the future, sa...
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