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WELTEC Biomethane Plant in France Launches Feed-in
Aug 21, 2015 (SPX)
On 5 August, the Longchamps biomethane plant in the Franche-Comte' region in eastern France went live. Thus, 70 standard m3/h are now continually supplied to th...
BESC creates microbe that bolsters isobutanol production
Aug 18, 2015 (SPX)
Another barrier to commercially viable biofuels from sources other than corn has fallen with the engineering of a microbe that improves isobutanol yields by a f...
Biochemist studies oilseed plants for biofuel, industrial development
Aug 14, 2015 (SPX)
A Kansas State University biochemistry professor has reached a milestone in building a better biofuel: producing high levels of lipids with modified properties ...
Genes of a common pond algae reveal great potential
Aug 14, 2015 (UPI)
Researchers have sequenced a species of pond algae (Euglena gracilis) with a plethora of new, unclassified genes -- genes with the potential to create a variety...
Turning cow poo into power is profitable for US farm
Aug 09, 2015 (AFP)
For most farms, manure is a pungent problem. At Homestead Dairy, it smells like money. The family-run American farm invested in a biogas recovery system which t...
Researchers use wastewater treatment to capture CO2, produce energy
Aug 05, 2015 (SPX)
Cleaning up municipal and industrial wastewater can be dirty business, but engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder have developed an innovative wastewat...
Pulse electric field enhances biogas yield in anaerobic digestion
Aug 05, 2015 (SPX)
The usage of pulsed electric field for conditioning substrates can significantly enhance biogas yield in commercial biogas plants. Although the primary effect o...
Keeping algae from stressing out
Aug 05, 2015 (SPX)
While most people might know some algae as "pond scum," to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), they are tiny organisms that could provide a source of sustainab...
Motile and cellulose degrading bacteria used for solid state cellulose hydrolysis
Aug 05, 2015 (SPX)
Cellulose hydrolysis has many industrial applications in such fields as biofuel production, food, paper, cosmetic, pharmaceutical industries and textile manufac...
Reproducible research for biofuels and biogas
Aug 01, 2015 (SPX)
New research in the Open Access journal GigaScience presents a virtual package of data for biogas production, made reusable in a containerized form to allow sci...
Microalgae as a feedstuff for grower steers
Jul 27, 2015 (SPX)
Algae are organisms so environmentally adaptable that they flourish in wastelands, sewage and saline bodies of water. They can grow in high densities, in the da...
Tropical peatland carbon losses from oil palm plantations may be underestimated
Jul 10, 2015 (SPX)
Draining tropical peatlands for oil palm plantations may result in nearly twice as much carbon loss as official estimates, according to a new study by researche...
Scientists study ways to integrate biofuels and food crops on farms
Jul 08, 2015 (SPX)
We ask a lot of the land: feed the world with crops, power the world with bioenergy, retain nutrients so they don't pollute our water and air. To help landscape...
Biogas to biomethane by water absorption column at low pressure and temps
Jul 08, 2015 (SPX)
Compared to other processes the innovation lies in the operating conditions. Instead of enhancing the solubility of carbon dioxide working with a pressurized sy...
How do biofuel perennials affect the water cycle?
Jul 06, 2015 (UPI)
There are costs and benefits for every land management decision. In the Midwest, researchers wanted to better understand the costs of planting perennial biofuel...
China's Geely invests in Iceland methanol factory
Jul 03, 2015 (AFP)
Chinese group Geely, the owner of Swedish carmaker Volvo, said Friday it had become a major shareholder in an Icelandic company that operates the world's first ...
Synthetic biology used to engineer new route to biochemicals
Jun 28, 2015 (SPX)
Living cells can make a vast range of products for us, but they don't always do it in the most straightforward or efficient way. Shota Atsumi, a chemistry profe...
Unlocking fermentation secrets open the door to new biofuels
Jun 28, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have, for the first time, uncovered the complex interdependence and orchestration of metabolic r...
Better switchgrass, better biofuel
Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)
Using switchgrass to produce biofuel is one way to decrease the United States' dependence on oil, but growing it and making it profitable can be complicated. Sw...
Mold unlocks new route to biofuels
Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists at The University of Manchester have made an important discovery that forms the basis for the development of new applications in biofuels and the sus...
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