BIO FUEL

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Waste from age-old paper industry becomes new source of solid fuel
Feb 14, 2014 (SPX)
In today's search for renewable energy sources, researchers are turning to the hi-tech, from solar and hydrogen fuel cells, and the very low-tech. The latest ex...
Approach helps identify new biofuel sources that don't require farmland
Feb 06, 2014 (SPX)
While the debate over using crops for fuel continues, scientists are now reporting a new, fast approach to develop biofuel in a way that doesn't require removin...
PROINSO shows PV-DIESEL hybrid systems at Genset Meeting 2014
Feb 05, 2014 (SPX)
PROINSO is to present its PV-diesel hybrid systems at the Genset Meeting 2014, the 1st professional meeting focusing on gensets, to be held in Madrid on 11 Febr...
New technique makes biogasoline from plant waste
Feb 04, 2014 (SPX)
Gasoline-like fuels can be made from cellulosic materials such as farm and forestry waste using a new process invented by chemists at the University of Californ...
Agricultural and Industrial Biogas Plants Go Online
Feb 04, 2014 (SPX)
The first two WELTEC plants in the United Kingdom, which were established in 2006, were among the first 15 biogas plants of the entire plant population. In reco...
Ceresana expects the market for bioplastics to grow
Feb 04, 2014 (SPX)
Polypropylene made from sugarcane, polyester based on starch, and polymers using lactic acid as feedstock: Plastics based on renewable resources are increasingl...
new catalyst makes converting carbon dioxide to useful chemicals cheaper
Feb 01, 2014 (SPX)
A team of researchers at the University of Delaware has developed a highly selective catalyst capable of electrochemically converting carbon dioxide - a greenho...
Put a plastic bag in your tank
Jan 29, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers in India have developed a relatively low-temperature process to convert certain kinds of plastic waste into liquid fuel as a way to re-use discarded...
Engineers teach old chemical new tricks to make cleaner fuels, fertilizers
Jan 27, 2014 (SPX)
University researchers from two continents have engineered an efficient and environmentally friendly catalyst for the production of molecular hydrogen (H2), a c...
UT Austin Engineer Converts Yeast Cells into 'Sweet Crude' Biofuel
Jan 24, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin's Cockrell School of Engineering have developed a new source of renewable energy, a biofuel, from genetically e...
Boeing And UAE To Look at Biofuels From Desert Plants
Jan 23, 2014 (SPX)
Boeing and research partners in the United Arab Emirates have made breakthroughs in sustainable aviation biofuel development, finding that desert plants fed by ...
Renewable chemical ready for biofuels scale-up
Jan 22, 2014 (SPX)
Using a plant-derived chemical, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have developed a process for creating a concentrated stream of sugars that's ripe wi...
Boeing Joins BIOjet Team To Develop Biofuel Supply Chain In UAE
Jan 21, 2014 (SPX)
Boeing , Etihad Airways, Takreer, Total and the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology have announced they will collaborate on a new initiative to support a...
UAE's Etihad demonstrates flight with biofuel mix
Jan 19, 2014 (AFP)
Etihad Airways said Sunday it has flown a Boeing 777 plane on a 45-minute demonstration flight powered in part by biofuel developed in collaboration with French...
Boeing Finds Significant Potential in Green Diesel as a Sustainable Jet Fuel
Jan 17, 2014 (SPX)
Boeing has identified "green diesel," a renewable fuel used in ground transportation, as a significant new source of sustainable aviation biofuel that emits at ...
More to biofuel production than yield
Jan 14, 2014 (SPX)
When it comes to biofuels, corn leads the all-important category of biomass yield. However, focusing solely on yield comes at a high price. In the current issue...
NREL Finds a New Cellulose Digestion Mechanism by a Fast-eating Enzyme
Jan 13, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have discovered that an enzyme from a microorganism first found in the Valley...
York scientists' significant step forward in biofuels quest
Dec 23, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists at the University of York have made a significant step in the search to develop effective second generation biofuels. Researchers from the Department...
Seaweed Energy Solutions (SES) acquires wild seaweed operation in Norway
Dec 19, 2013 (SPX)
Seaweed Energy Solutions (SES) has announced it has reached an agreement to buy all of Norway's Biotral AS in a deal that transforms SES' position as one of Eur...
Algae to crude oil: Million-year natural process takes minutes in the lab
Dec 19, 2013 (SPX)
Engineers have created a continuous chemical process that produces useful crude oil minutes after they pour in harvested algae - a verdant green paste with the ...
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