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Pressure Cooking Turns Farm Waste into Biofuels

It takes some cooking, but turning farm waste into biofuels is now possible and makes economic sense, according to preliminary research from the University of Guelph.

19 Dec 2014

Algae Harvests Precious Heavy Metals from Cornish Tin Mine

A ground breaking research project by the GW4 Alliance aims to clean up water from a Cornish tin mine, using algae to harvest the precious heavy metals and produce biofuel at the same time.

8 Dec 2014

World's First Flight Using Sustainable Green Diesel

Boeing has completed the world's first flight using "green diesel," a sustainable biofuel that is widely available and used in ground transportation. The company powered its ecoDemonstrator 787 flight test airplane yesterday with a blend of 15 percent green diesel and 85 percent petroleum jet fuel in the left engine.

From Boeing 5 Dec 2014

Global Bioenergies Successfully Produces Bio-Sourced Butadiene by Direct Fermentation

Global Bioenergies announces having succeeded in the production of bio-sourced butadiene by direct fermentation. It is the first time ever an entirely biological production process -i.e. without any chemical step- is reported for butadiene, one of the most important petrochemical building blocks.

28 Nov 2014

KU Leuven Researchers Successfully Convert Sawdust into Gasoline

Researchers at KU Leuven’s Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis have successfully converted sawdust into building blocks for gasoline. Using a new chemical process, they were able to convert the cellulose in sawdust into hydrocarbon chains. These hydrocarbons can be used as an additive in gasoline, or as a component in plastics. The researchers reported their findings in the journal Energy & Environmental Science.

26 Nov 2014

Lockheed Martin, Concord Blue to Build Clean Energy Power Generation Facility in Germany

Lockheed Martin and teammate Concord Blue announced a new contract to build a power generation facility that will provide a new, clean energy source to meet the needs of 5,000 homes and businesses in Herten, Germany.

21 Nov 2014

UEA Researchers Make Progress in Enhancing Generation of Clean Energy from Bacteria

Researchers from the University of East Anglia (UEA) are a step closer to enhancing the generation of clean energy from bacteria.

21 Nov 2014

Usage of Sewage Sludge as Energy Crop Fertilizers Can Increase Biomass Production

Researchers from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and the Universidad Miguel Hernández of Elche have found the way to increase biomass production by using sewage sludge as energy crop fertilizers.

20 Nov 2014

Digestive Strategy in Shipworms Holds Potential for Industrial Production of Clean Biofuels

An international research team led by Dan Distel, director of the Ocean Genome Legacy Center of New England Biolabs at Northeastern University, has discovered a novel digestive strategy in shipworms. The breakthrough, the researchers say, may also be a game-changer for the industrial production of clean biofuels.

11 Nov 2014

Bioengineers Boost Ability of Bacteria to Produce Biofuels

An international team of bioengineers has boosted the ability of bacteria to produce isopentenol, a compound with desirable gasoline properties. The finding, published in mBio®, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology, is a significant step toward developing a bacterial strain that can yield industrial quantities of renewable bio-gasoline.

7 Nov 2014