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New Study Reveals Higher Environmental Impact from Cookstove Emissions

Cookstoves are a main part of numerous homes across Asia: families frequently use readily available and inexpensive biofuels — such as dung or crop chaff— to cook the food needed to live.

3 Jan 2018

Bacteria Help Turn Greek Yogurt Waste into Molecules Used in Biofuels

Greek yogurt is enjoyed by consumers from all over the world because of its texture, taste, and protein-packed punch. However, attaining that perfect formula produces huge volumes of food waste in the form of liquid whey.

14 Dec 2017

Use of Rhodium-Based Catalysts to Directly Convert Methane into Usable Fuel

Researchers aspiring to created innovative energy resources have, for a long time, engaged in achieving the direct transformation methane into a usable fuel, for instance, methanol. Methane is a simple and plentiful chemical contained in natural gas.

8 Dec 2017

University of Bristol Chemists Use Beer as a Key Ingredient to Make Sustainable Petrol

It is a commonly accepted fact that there is an urgent requirement for sustainable alternatives to fossil fuels for transportation to replace petrol and diesel.

7 Dec 2017

Innovative, Non-Toxic Solvent for Synthesizing Next-Generation Biofuel Ethanol

Industrial ethanol, a first-generation biofuel, is synthesized from foodstuffs such as maize, and hence presents considerable worry in relation to a probable future food shortage. Hence it would be wise to synthesize ethanol from non-food biomass such as waste paper, weeds, paper cup, and so on—that is, second-generation biofuel ethanol.

5 Dec 2017

Research on Guaranteeing Sustainable Bioenergy and Biofuel Production

Bioenergy is considered to be the most common renewable energy source in Europe, and it is expected to continue to make up a major part of the energy mix in the future.

17 Nov 2017

New Global Carbon Dioxide Utilization Strategy with a Fuel Synthesis Plant

Producing fuel out of polluted air, using it to power industry, and taking the emissions from that industry back out of the air in order to generate more fuel – it sounds extremely good to be true.

17 Nov 2017

Study Reveals New Source of Robust Cellulases in Compost

A recent study led by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), based at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), shows the significance of microbial communities as a source of stable enzymes that could be applied to convert plants to biofuels.

15 Nov 2017

Inducing Student Collaboration to Find Best Algal Strains for Making Biohydrogen

A new National Science Foundation (NSF) grant has been offered to Arizona State University and Kevin Redding, professor in the School of Molecular Sciences and director of the Center for Bioenergy and Photosynthesis (CB&P), for a study on altering the generation and consumption of energy in a nation.

10 Nov 2017

UD Researchers Develop New Processes to Ramp Up Bio-Based Aviation Fuel

Airplanes zoom overhead with wispy-white contrails that stream behind them. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) controlled 43,684 flights, on average, daily in 2016, and U.S. commercial and military flights together used more than 20 billion gallons of jet fuel.

31 Oct 2017