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New Publication by Woodhead Publishing: Radioactive Waste Management and Contaminated Site Clean-up

Radioactive waste management and contaminated site clean-up reviews radioactive waste management processes, technologies, and international experiences.

2 Oct 2013

Metabolically-Engineered Microorganism Produces Gasoline

For many decades, we have been relying on fossil resources to produce liquid fuels such as gasoline, diesel, and many industrial and consumer chemicals for daily use. However, increasing strains on natural resources as well as environmental issues including global warming have triggered a strong interest in developing sustainable ways to obtain fuels and chemicals.

30 Sep 2013

Oskarshamn Energi Selects Metso for Supply of Complete Biomass-Fired Power Plant

Metso will supply Oskarshamn Energi with a complete biomass-fired power plant for combined heat and power production in Oskarshamn in Sweden. The start-up of the plant is scheduled for winter 2015. The value of the order will not be disclosed.

24 Sep 2013

New Fortum Biomass Combined Heat and Power Plant Inaugurated in Latvia

Andris Bçrziòð, the President of Latvia, and Sauli Niinistö, the President of Finland, have today inaugurated Fortum’s new combined heat and power (CHP) plant in the Latvian city of Jelgava. The new power plant uses biomass as fuel and will provide district heating to the residents and businesses in Jelgava as well as electricity to the electricity market. The new plant covers approximately 85% of the city’s district heating demand.

12 Sep 2013

Midori Renewables Deploys Breaking the Biomass Barrier Technology

Flagship VentureLabs announced today that Midori Renewables is globally deploying their Breaking the Biomass Barrier™ technology, a novel catalyst that melts non-food biomass into low cost sugar, enabling the production of many valuable renewable products and animal feed.

5 Sep 2013

NextFuels Unveils Strategy to Economically Produce Biofuels in Southeast Asia

NextFuels, a pioneer in transforming agricultural residue into biofuels, unveiled its strategy today for economically producing transportation and industrial fuels from wet, unprocessed agricultural waste.

20 Aug 2013

One-Pot Pretreatment and Saccharification Process of Switchgrass Biofuel Feedstock

The advantages of the “one-stop” shop have long been recognized in the retailing and services industries. Similar advantages would also be realized for the biofuels industry with the development of a “one-pot” processing system in which sugars could be extracted from biomass and turned into fuels in a single vat.

14 Aug 2013

Rapid Advances in Algae Industry to be Showcased at 7th Annual Algae Biomass Summit

The 7th Annual Algae Biomass Summit, taking place in Orlando, Florida, September 30-October 3 will showcase the rapid advances in the algae industry during the Innovation on the Road to Commercialization track of the world’s largest algae conference.

9 Aug 2013

The Pancake Parlour to Lower Carbon Footprint by Using Cardia’s Compostable Carrier Bags

The Pancake Parlour restaurants in collaboration with Cardia Bioplastics Limited (Cardia) will implement a “go green strategy” that will reduce the carbon footprint of its Melbourne restaurants and at the same time provide an environmental benefit by using Cardia’s compostable and Biohybrid™ bioplastics technology based products.

From Cardia Bioplastics 7 Aug 2013

Leading Research Scientists to Participate in 7th Annual Algae Biomass Summit

The 7th Annual Algae Biomass Summit, taking place in Orlando, Florida, September 30-October 3 will showcase its Algal Biology and Research track with almost 30 presentations by leading research scientists and experts from universities, companies and several national laboratories.

31 Jul 2013