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Cornell Student Teams Win EPA’s People, Prosperity and the Planet Award

Two Cornell student teams – a cookstove fuel/biochar group and the AguaClara water filtration project – won the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s prestigious People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) Award June 19. With about 45 teams in the competition, Cornell was the only school with two of the seven winning teams.

2 Jul 2013

Industrial Biotechnology Explores Advances in Fungal Biology and Bioengineering Fungal Systems

Among the increasingly valuable roles fungi are playing in the biotechnology industry is their ability to produce enzymes capable of releasing sugars from plants, trees, and other forms of complex biomass, which can then be converted to biofuels and biobased chemicals.

2 Jul 2013

UBRG Subsidiary Awarded New Contract to Supply Natural Gas to Major Power Utility Customer

Universal Bioenergy Inc., (UBRG), a publicly traded independent diversified energy company, that markets and distributes natural gas, electricity, petroleum and coal, announced that its subsidiary, NDR Energy Group was awarded new a contract to supply natural gas to a major electric power utility customer. The contract is projected to generate several million dollars in additional revenue.

29 Jun 2013

Researchers Engineer Bacteria to Produce Gasoline-Like Biofuel

New lines of engineered bacteria can tailor-make key precursors of high-octane biofuels that could one day replace gasoline, scientists at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School report in the June 24 online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

27 Jun 2013

Collaboration to Transform Steel Industry’s Carbon-Rich Off-Gases into Low Carbon Bioethanol

Siemens Metals Technologies and LanzaTech have signed a ten-year co-operation agreement to develop and market integrated environmental solutions for the steel industry worldwide.

21 Jun 2013

New Fortum Biofuel-Fired Plant Commissioned in Järvenpää

Fortum’s new biofuel-fired plant has been commissioned in Järvenpää, Finland. The plant utilises biofuels to produce district heat for about 34,000 residents in Tuusula and Järvenpää as well as electricity for the national grid.

17 Jun 2013

New Report on European Market for Biofuel Plants

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Biofuels in Europe (Analyst Version) - The European Market for Biofuel Plants 2012/2013" report to their offering.

From Research and Markets 15 Jun 2013

Biomass Degrading Enzymes of Leaf-Cutter Ants May Help Improve Biofuel Production

As spring warms up Wisconsin, humans aren't the only ones tending their gardens.

15 Jun 2013

Susquehanna Students and Teachers to Study Biofuel Technology at Penn State Harrisburg

Twenty students and five teachers from Susquehanna Township High School will study biofuel technology at Penn State Harrisburg June 23 - June 28 as part of a continuing national, state and local, effort to interest young people in the STEM disciplines.

12 Jun 2013

Microorganisms from an Alkaline Spring Hold Potential for Biofuel Process Improvement

The only truly practical biofuels will be those made from abundant feedstocks like switchgrass, wheat straw, and other woody plants, whose cell walls consist of lignocellulose. After pretreatment to remove or reduce the lignin, the sugary remains of cellulose and hemicellulose are fermented by microorganisms to yield the biofuel.

11 Jun 2013