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Range Fuels Declares Opening of its Bio-fuel Commercial Production

Initially, the company proposes to use wood waste afforded by timber plants from nearby locations of Soperton Ga. The process deployed by the company will change the wood waste into synthetic gas by heat and pressure method which will then undergo a patented catalytic process to generate an alcohol based mix.

21 Aug 2010

TNAU Takes Initiatives for Establishing BioFuel Plantations

TNAU (Tamil Nadu Agricultural University) has made proposals for initiating and establishing biofuel plantations with financial support from the Central government of India.

21 Aug 2010

University of Illinois Engineer Hints at Economical, Efficient Biofuel Production

A metabolic engineer at the University of Illinois has initiated steps for producing efficient and economical biofuel by way of the development of an yeast strain that has an increased alcohol tolerance.

21 Aug 2010

SBI Energy Report Paints a Bright Future for Biofuel Industry

SBI Energy, a company known for offering industrial and market research reports, has released a new industrial study report related to global Algae Biofuels Production Technologies.

20 Aug 2010

Thailand Aiming to Become an Aviation Hub by Increasing Bio-fuel Production

Alternative Energy Development and Efficiency Department, a government unit of Thailand established to develop policies and deliberate on various energy projects, has declared that Thailand will start producing bio-fuel for jet planes from the year 2012 in coordination with the European aviation policy of using green fuel in airplanes.

20 Aug 2010

Cargill to Construct Biodiesel Facility in Argentina

Cargill Inc. is all set to construct a biodiesel facility in Argentina. The company is looking to strengthen its biodiesel presence in Latin America.

19 Aug 2010

UCC Study Highlights Viability of Conversion of Common Grass into Biogas

A joint study conducted by UCC along with Ernst and Young has studied the viability of producing heating gas from common grass.

19 Aug 2010

Researchers at Edinburgh Napier University Use By-Products of Whisky to Develop Butanol

Researchers at Edinburgh Napier University have proved that spin-offs of distilling factories can be used to produce butanol to power cars and airplanes. For researching they used samples from the Glenkinchie Distillery located in East Lothian.

19 Aug 2010

Salt Lake City to Use Barren Lands to Produce Bio-Diesel Crops

The pilot project of growing bio-fuel crops started over an area of 20 acres of unused dry farm land by the members of the cooperative development is considered as a prelude to utilizing such publicly owned lands that are not used for cultivation.

19 Aug 2010

Range Fuels Generates Cellulosic Methanol from Cellulosic Biofuels Plant

Range Fuels, Inc., a producer of commercial-scale clean renewable power and low-carbon biofuels, has generated cellulosic methanol from its commercial cellulosic biofuels facility close to Soperton, Georgia by making use of non-food biomass.

19 Aug 2010