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Petrochemical and Biofuels Industry Revolution Led By Energy Efficient Chemistry

A team of researchers, led by chemical engineering and materials science professor Michael Tsapatsis in the University of Minnesota's Institute of Technology, have developed a more energy-efficient method of chemical separations that could revolutionize processes in the petrochemical and biofuels industries

3 Aug 2009

Renewable Fuels Association Happy With Obama Support for American Ethanol

Ethanol producers around the country are very pleased by the Obama Administration’s rapid action to clarify its continuing support and strong belief in the American ethanol industry

30 Jul 2009

New Technology Uses Sunlight to Turn Carbon Dioxide into Liquid Fuel

Joule Biotechnologies has developed a revolutionary process that harnesses sunlight to directly convert carbon dioxide (CO2) into SolarFuel liquid energy

27 Jul 2009

Mythbusters Rocket Powered by Renewable Jet-Fueled Set to Break the Sound Barrier

Renewable jet propellant-8 (JP-8) fuel developed and produced by the Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) at the University of North Dakota was successfully flown in a rocket built by Flometrics, Inc., a product engineering company specializing in fluid dynamics and thermodynamics based in San Diego, California. The fuel burn was so successful that the rocket approached Mach 1 (the speed of sound) and reached an altitude of about 20,000 feet

27 Jul 2009

Ethanol and Biofuels Joins the Social Media World of Twitter and Online Chat

Social media is all the rage today. Either you’re in, or you’re out. Ethanol and the Renewable Fuels Association are in

27 Jul 2009

EPA Considers Raising Ethanol Levels For Gasoline to E15

Currently, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is considering a formal waiver request from the ethanol industry to allow for the blending of up to 15 percent ethanol in a gallon of gasoline

26 Jul 2009

BioFuels and Food To Benefit From Plant Research Funding for CSIRO and USDA

CSIRO and US Department of Agriculture (USDA) researchers, have been awarded a A$1.6 million grant to increase the understanding of genes responsible for growth and yield in grasses for use as bio-energy and food crops

24 Jul 2009

Biofuel Development to Benefit From Fast and Efficient Protein Screening Method

Scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a fast and efficient way to determine the structure of proteins, shortening a process that often takes years into a matter of days. The high-throughput protein pipeline could allow scientists to expedite the development of biofuels

21 Jul 2009

Scientists Work Out How To Use Plants to Make Fuel, Polyester and Other Chemicals

Scientists took a giant step closer to the biorefinery today, reporting in the journal Science that they have directly converted sugars ubiquitous in nature to an alternative source for those products that make oil so valuable, with very little of the residual impurities that have made the quest so daunting

15 Jul 2009

Exxon Mobil to Develop Next Generation Biofuels From Algae

Exxon Mobil Corporation announced today an alliance with leading biotech company, Synthetic Genomics Inc, to research and develop next generation biofuels from photosynthetic algae

14 Jul 2009