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Biofuel or biodiesel is an alternative fuel made from renewable sources including vegetable oil (such as soy and canola), corn ethanol, sugar-cane ethanol, cellulosic ethanol, recycling cooking oil, algae, or animal fat. Biomass is plants grown to generate electricity or produce biofuels. Biofuels can significantly reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, but they can be energy intensive to produce.
Bio-fuel produced by algae could produce an economically viable, low net carbon emission transportation fuel
Meeting the world’s growing energy needs while reducing the impact on the environment will require the development of all viable sources of energy and new technology development, said Emil Jacobs, Vice President of Research and Development at ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company. In a speech to the 2010 World Future Energy Summit, Jacobs outlined the energy challenge facing the world: global energy demand is expected to be 35 percent hi... [more]
Car powered by Government office wastepaper and waste cardboard
Advanced biofuels can deliver up to 90 percent CO2 emission reduction compared to gasoline and are the most cost-efficient way of reducing CO2 in the transport sector. For the first time in U.S. history, a vehicle fuelled by government office wastepaper and waste cardboard has driven the streets of Washington D.C. Novozymes partnered with Maryland-based Fiberight to provide the demonstration fuel. “The advanced biofuels showcased here demo... [more]
Cyclone Power Technologies secures European patent on its heat regenerative external combustion engine
The European Patent Office has issued a notice to grant Cyclone Power Technologies a patent on its heat regenerative external combustion engine. Cyclone’s invention is a high-efficiency modern steam engine, known as a Schoell Cycle engine, capable of running on virtually any liquid or gaseous fuel, and creating far fewer noxious emissions than comparable internal combustion engines. Two of the many aspects that make Cyclone’s engine unique ar... [more]
Obama's Commitment to Building Advanced Biorefineries Can Create Green Jobs
A recent report commissioned by BIO, U.S. Economic Impact of Advanced Biofuels Production, projects that development of advanced biorefineries could create as many as 29,000 jobs over the next few years. Additional Congressional action is needed to follow through on the Obama administration’s recently announced initiative to rapidly build an integrated value chain for the bioeconomy, create jobs and kick start economic growth. The Biotechnolog... [more]
EKATO side-agitators to aid fermentation at Vivergo Fuels' biorefinery plant
With plant process managers continually under pressure to identify new means of driving costs down, while improving process efficiency, every element of a plant’s equipment is scrutinised to make sure it offers maximum value for money. Investing in effective and affordable equipment is an even greater concern when planning the construction of new plants. Vivergo Fuels will use EKATO side entry agitators in all of their Fermentation Vessels in... [more]
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Biogas Renewable Energy's Cinderella (DTN / The Progressive Farmer)
While ethanol and biodiesel may have their place, a columnist at RenewableEnergyWorld.com said biogas may be a better investment than both biofuels.
Belgium Company Invests EUR 15 M in Bulgarian Biofuels Plant (Novinite.com)
Yves Crits, CEO of the Belgium company 4Energy Invest, is in Bulgaria's Kardzhali to to purchase wood and to survey possible locations for a new biofuels plant.
Belgium Company Invests EUR 15 M in Bulgarian Biofuels Plant (Novinite.com)
The construction of a new plant for the production of biofuels will begin by the end of 2010 in Bulgaria's southern city of Kardzhali.
Invest more in farm energy: report (North Queensland Register)
THE Government should invest more money into researching energy efficiency on farms, according to a new parliamentary report released tabled in Canberra last night.
Advanced BioFuels Association Board Elects Chairman and Vice Chairman at Meeting in Washington DC (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)
WASHINGTON, March 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Advanced BioFuels Association announced today that its member companies elected a Chairman and Vice Chairman of its Board of Directors at its Winter Board Meeting in Washington D.C. The members unanimously elected Lee Edwards, CEO of Virent Energy Systems, as Chairman and Robert M. Ames, Vice President and General Manager of Tyson Foods, as ...
From raw biomass, chemical process produces simple, fermentable sugars (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
A University of Wisconsin-Madison research team has developed a promising new chemical method to liberate the sugar molecules trapped inside inedible plant biomass, a key step in the creation of cellulosic biofuels.
Biogas Is Renewable Energy's Cinderella (Renewable Energy World)
Examined at a fundamental level, the universe seems to begin in lofty abstractions that lead to prosaic realities. Thus mathematics encompasses physics, physics encompasses chemistry, chemistry encompasses biology, and it all leads to… well, us.
Research and Markets: Handbook of Waste Management and Co-Product Recovery in Food Processing (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
DUBLIN----Research and Markets has announced the addition of Woodhead Publishing Ltd's new report "Handbook of Waste Management and Co-Product Recovery in Food Processing" to their offering.
SAIC Awarded $21 Million Blanket Purchase Agreement For Biomass Engineering (dBusinessNews.com)
MCLEAN, Va -- Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, R.W. Beck, has been awarded a blanket purchase agreement by the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Golden Field Office to support The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's Biomass Program.
Albemarle joins biofuels consortium (The Advocate)
Published: Mar 9, 2010 - UPDATED: 3:15 P.M. Baton Rouge-based specialty chemicals maker Albemarle Corp. will be part of the National Advanced Biofuels Consortium, which will conduct research to develop clean, cost-effective sustainable transportation fuels.
