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HERO BX Adopts Arisdyne's Oleochemical Cavitation System to Reduce Biodiesel Catalyst Consumption
May 03, 2012 (SPX)
The Arisdyne Systems cavitation process has allowed biodiesel producer HERO BX to reduce catalyst consumption by over 25% and contributed to the reduction of mo...
High-Yield Method for Producing Everyday Plastics from Biomass
May 02, 2012 (SPX)
A team of chemical engineers led by Paul J. Dauenhauer of the University of Massachusetts Amherst has discovered a new, high-yield method of producing the key i...
Oil palm surging source of greenhouse gas emissions
Apr 30, 2012 (SPX)
Continued expansion of industrial-scale oil palm plantations on the island of Borneo will become a leading cause of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 unless stro...
Tests of aviation jet biofuel to start
Apr 30, 2012 (UPI)
U.S. tech firm Honeywell says it is starting one of the aviation industry's first comprehensive test programs for aviation biofuel. Honeywell subsidiary UOP wil...
Optimizing biofuel supply chain is a competitive game
Apr 24, 2012 (SPX)
As biofuel production has increased - particularly ethanol derived from corn - a hotly contested competition for feedstock supplies has emerged between the agri...
How the Ecological Risks of Extended Bioenergy Production can be Reduced
Apr 24, 2012 (SPX)
For years experts have discussed the ecological impact of the extended cultivation of energy crops. Scientists have now developed a computer model that allows a...
Climate change, biofuels mandate would cause corn price spikes
Apr 24, 2012 (SPX)
A study from Purdue and Stanford university researchers predicts that future climate scenarios may cause significantly greater volatility in corn prices, which ...
ANA Celebrate First 787 Biofuel Flight
Apr 23, 2012 (SPX)
Boeing and All Nippon Airways have made aviation history as a 787 Dreamliner flew for the first time powered in part by sustainable biofuels. "The 787 is the mo...
Analysis raises atmospheric, economic doubts about forest bioenergy
Apr 23, 2012 (SPX)
A large, global move to produce more energy from forest biomass may be possible and already is beginning in some places, but scientists say in a new analysis th...
Hot new manufacturing tool: A temperature-controlled microbe
Apr 18, 2012 (SPX)
Many manufacturing processes rely on microorganisms to perform tricky chemical transformations or make substances from simple starting materials. The authors of...
ORNL process improves catalytic rate of enzymes by 3,000 percent
Apr 18, 2012 (SPX)
Light of specific wavelengths can be used to boost an enzyme's function by as much as 30 fold, potentially establishing a path to less expensive biofuels, deter...
Policies, learning-by-doing played important role in reducing ethanol costs
Apr 16, 2012 (SPX)
A new study from the University of Illinois concludes that learning-by-doing, stimulated by increased ethanol production, played an important role in inducing t...
Hawaii plans biorefinery
Apr 13, 2012 (UPI)
A biorefinery is planned for Hawaii to help wean the state off imported fuel. UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, has completed construction on the first phase of its...
Solazyme and Bunge Form Joint Venture for Commercial-Scale Renewable Oil Production Facility in Brazil
Apr 12, 2012 (SPX)
Solazyme and Bunge Global Innovation have announced that they and other Bunge subsidiaries have signed definitive agreements forming a Joint Venture ("JV") to b...
Mascoma and Lallemand Ethanol Technology Announce Commercial Agreement with Pacific Ethanol
Apr 12, 2012 (SPX)
Mascoma and Lallemand Ethanol Technology has announced that they have entered into a commercial agreement with Pacific Ethanol Columbia, LLC, the owner of the e...
AFPM Says EPA Action on E15 Irresponsible
Apr 12, 2012 (SPX)
American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers President Charles T. Drevna issued the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency announced it ...
ZeaChem Welcomes Governor Kitzhaber to Oregon Biorefinery
Apr 12, 2012 (SPX)
ZeaChem has welcomed Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber on a tour of its 250,000 gallon-per-year biorefinery in Boardman, Ore., and announced it has begun construct...
Proterro Meets Key Productivity Milestones for Clean, Fermentation-ready Sugar Feedstock
Apr 12, 2012 (SPX)
The cost barrier standing in the path of economical and scalable biofuels and chemicals production can be broken," Proterro CEO Kef Kasdin said here at the Adva...
Proterro Meets Key Productivity Milestones
Apr 10, 2012 (SPX)
"The cost barrier standing in the path of economical and scalable biofuels and chemicals production can be broken," Proterro CEO Kef Kasdin said here at the Adv...
Algae biofuels: the wave of the future
Apr 04, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers at Virginia Bioinformatics Institute have assembled the draft genome of a marine algae sequence to aid scientists across the US in a project that ai...
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