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New Research Advances Battery Technology

Assistant Professor Yang Yang’s research team at the University of Central Florida has developed two potential energy storage technologies in its work with sustainable energy systems.

20 Sep 2017

New System for Efficient Production, Storage and Safe Transportation of Hydrogen

A team of scientists from the Universitat Jaume I de Castelló, the Institute of Chemical Technology of the Universitat Politècnica de València-CSIC, and the University of Zaragoza, coordinated by Professor José Antonio Mata of the UJI, have created and patented an innovative process for efficient production, storage and safe transportation of hydrogen for use in fuel cells via the use of chemical reagents.

19 Sep 2017

PEF Process Effective for Removing Atrazine and its By-Products in Surface Water

Widely used as a weedkiller, atrazine is known to negatively affect aquatic wildlife and poses a risk to human health by altering the action of particular hormones.

19 Sep 2017

New Developments Could Create Fully Integrated Solar-Driven CO2-Reduction Devices

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have harnessed the power of photosynthesis to transform carbon dioxide into alcohols and fuels at efficiencies far greater than plants.

19 Sep 2017

Combining Microbial and Electrochemical Biomass Conversion to Yield Valuable Products

Scientists from the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ), the University of Tübingen, Cornell University, and Deutsche Biomasseforschungszentrum (DBFZ) have now demonstrated that valuable products can be obtained by integrating electrochemical and microbial biomass conversion processes.

19 Sep 2017

Cellulosic Ethanol Commercially Synthesized from Mixed Municipal Solid Waste

Enerkem Inc., one of the leading companies producing renewable chemicals and biofuels, world leading producer, declared on 15 September 2017 that it has begun the commercial manufacture of cellulosic ethanol.

18 Sep 2017

New Methods for Developing Renewable Fuel from Water Using Quantum Technology

At present it is possible to produce renewable hydrogen by photoelectrolysis where solar power is used to split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen.

15 Sep 2017

Stanford Researchers Aim to Promote Cleaner Technologies in Brick Kiln Industry

A revelation occurred to Stephen Luby, a Stanford epidemiologist while he was 30,000 ft up in the air. Luby was flying over India when he recognized the view from his window seat was actually brick kilns on the ground below.

15 Sep 2017

Innovative Bio-Ink Could Speed Up Advances in Regenerative Medicine

Researchers at UBC’s Okanagan campus have created an innovative bio-ink that may support an inexpensive and a more efficient fabrication of human organs and tissues.

15 Sep 2017

New Technique Could Estimate Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers have developed a laboratory instrument capable of measuring the amount of carbon in many carbon-containing materials derived from fossil fuels.

15 Sep 2017

Primary Conversion of Biomass into Intermediate Liquid Products

The goal of COMSYN, an EU-funded project, is to create a production concept for generating competitive bio-based fuels through a compact gasification and production method. The target decrease in the production cost of the biofuel is nearly 35% as against substitutive methods, culminating in a production cost of nearly less than 0.80 Euros per liter of diesel.

From INERATEC GmbH 13 Sep 2017

Transforming Waste Toilet Paper into Electricity

Chemical Scientists from the University of Amsterdam’s (UvA) Sustainable Chemistry research priority area collaborated with chemists at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development of Utrecht University to publish the first ever techno-economic analysis of transforming waste toilet paper (WTP) into electricity.

13 Sep 2017

Identifying Origin of Indoor Air Pollutants and Related Remedies

A number of homes and also certain eco-friendly structures may be prone to indoor air pollution. An innovative research performed by scientists from the Silent Spring Institute gives a better viewpoint of the origin of such pollutants—namely, the pollutants formed from chemicals being discharged from building materials and the pollutants brought into the home by people in the form of personal items.

13 Sep 2017

Wood-Based Protein Could Help Address Global Food Challenge

At present, sawdust is treated as special waste by some sawmills, as it cannot be put to good use. In fact, increasing amounts of sawdust piles can even affect production.

12 Sep 2017

Biofuel from Promising Feedstock can Enable Aircraft to Fly for Longer

A new analysis from Researchers at the University of Illinois estimate that a Boeing 747 could fly for 10 hours on bio-jet fuel created on 54 acres of specially engineered sugarcane.

12 Sep 2017