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Increased Opportunities for Industrial Biotechnology Companies with Expansion of USDA BioPreferred Program

Biobased products are commercial or industrial goods composed of biological products, forestry materials, or renewable domestic agricultural materials, including plant, animal, or marine materials. Made from renewable plant and animal sources, biobased products are generally safer for the environment than their petroleum-based counterparts. They are usually biodegradable or recyclable. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has finalized three rul... [more]

Honeywell, Airbus, JetBlue Airways and International Aero Engines Study Sustainable Biofuels Use for Commercial Aircraft

UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, and Honeywell Aerospace will partner with Airbus, JetBlue Airways, and International Aero Engines to study sustainable biofuel use for commercial aircraft. The effort will focus on developing and testing renewable energy technology to convert biofeedstocks to commercial aviation fuels, with specific focus on “second-generation” feedstocks such as algae which do not compete with food or water resources. “Biofuel... [more]

Waste Management and Linde partner to convert landfill gas into a clean vehicle fuel

Waste Management and Linde North America - part of The Linde Group - have announced a joint venture to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility, located at the Altamont Landfill near Livermore, California to convert landfill gas into a clean vehicle fuel. The project offers a unique opportunity to “close the loop” by fueling hundreds of collection trucks with clean fuel produced from garbage. Collecting garbage and recyclables in Californi... [more]

Gulf Ethanol will not use food-based crops for production of its biofuels

The agricultural implications of using food-based ethanol have wide ranging effects. In addition to higher corn prices, prices for corn-based products, including animal feed also rise. This translates to higher prices for animal products like chicken, beef, and cheese, for example. As food prices escalate worldwide, corn based ethanol has been fingered as a culprit along with higher oil prices. Gulf Ethanol has announced that it will not use ... [more]

Converting citrus peel waste into ethanol

Xethanol’s Southeast Biofuels LLC has entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (ARS). The agreement is under the direction of Dr. Bill Widmer of the USDA-ARS Citrus and Subtropical Products Laboratory at Winter Haven, Fla. His work focuses on conversion of citrus waste to ethanol. Xethanol’s Southeast Biofuels has the rights to three patents pending co... [more]

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Biofuels funding will further local projects (Sarnia Observer) New provincial money for biofuels research will help the local research park commercialize the budding technology. The Ontario government announced it will pour another $7.5 million into research for biofuels that can be made from agricultural waste such as corn husks and manure instead of food crops. With [...]

ConocoPhillips Announces Collaboration with Colorado Center for Biorefining and Biofuels (Centre Daily Times) ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP) announced today that it has signed a $5 million, multi-year sponsored research agreement with the Colorado Center for Biorefining and Biofuels (C2B2), a research center of the Colorado Renewable Energy Collaboratory, to develop new ways to convert biomass into low-carbon transportation fuels.

EU report sees biofuel giving 3.4% of 2020 needs (The Economic Times) The European Union may get barely one-third of its target for biofuels in transport fuels from home-produced sources by 2020, requiring massive imports to meet the goal, a draft European Environment Agency report said.

EU report sees biofuel giving 3.4 pct of 2020 needs (AlertNet) Source: Reuters (Adds lawmaker quotes) By Pete Harrison PARIS, July 4 (Reuters) - The European Union may get barely one-third of its target for biofuels in transport fuels from home-produced sources by 2020, ...

ConocoPhillips signs multi-year biofuel research agreement with C2B2 (Energy Business Review) ConocoPhillips has signed a $5 million, multi-year sponsored research agreement with the Colorado Center for Biorefining and Biofuels, a research center of the Colorado Renewable Energy Collaboratory, to develop new ways to convert biomass into low-carbon transportation fuels.

China's Grasslands Promising For Renewable Energy Sources (Bernama) HOHHOT, July 4 (Bernama) -- Vast grasslands provide a promising future for clean energy in China, with rich reserves of solar and wind power and great biofuels potential, experts at an international conference here said.

Grasslands promising for renewable energy sources (People's Daily) Vast grasslands provide a promising future for clean energy in China, with rich reserves of solar and wind power and great biofuels potential, experts at an international conference said. Zhang Yingjun, a professor who specializes i ...

U of G Profs Making Headlines (University of Guelph News) A story in today's Toronto Star features comments and research by Molecular and Cellular Biology Prof. Anthony Clarke. Clarke is involved in a U of G project to unlock the biofuels from the wasted biomass, which offers an alternative to using food crops to produce energy. In addition, U of G Integrative Biology Prof. Andrew MacDougall was featured in The New York Times this past ...

ConocoPhillips inks Colorado research agreement (BizJournals) ConocoPhillips has signed a $5 million, multiyear research agreement with the Colorado Center for Biorefining and Biofuels to develop new ways to convert biomass into low-carbon transportation fuels. (COP)

Customer Service (Brandon Sun) TORONTO - Two projects in Ontario seeking fuel alternatives are getting a $7.5-million boost from the provincial government. Both projects are trying to develop biofuels made agricultural byproducts, such as corn husks and manure, instead of from crops.