Biofuel

A three year project to develop a more sustainable biofuel feedstock by focusing on sugar-rich varieties of perennial ryegrass was unveilled by Aberystwyth University today (26th November). The Grassohol project brings together the expertise of eight partners who are leaders in the...

By Jason Paur The company’s says it’s secret weapon is the process it uses to create the ethanol, “at the core of Coskata technology is our proprietary micro organisms” according to Bolsen. The company takes the feedstock, wood chips in the case of the demonstration facility, and blasts it in a furnace....

Salt-loving algae could be the key to the successful development of biofuels as well as being an efficient means of recycling atmospheric carbon dioxide, according to Professor John Cushman of the University of Nevada. Speaking at the Society for General Microbiology meeting at Herio...

By Natalie(noreply@blogger.com) THE Philippines is planning to make use of the available agricultural technologies developed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for improving yields of local crops, particularly those used as feedstock for biofuel.

By Natalie(noreply@blogger.com) The Jatropha plant or shrub like tree can grow in a wide variety of climates. Its seeds contain about 40% oil that can be extracted for energy as feedstock for renewable biodiesel production. Currently, the early stage Jatropha emerging market is growing at 18% annually. This promising bio...

There's no way that algae are sustainable as a feedstock for fuel or energy unless you can dramatically increase the yield per acre and optimize the strain for use as an energy source," said Tom Todaro, CEO of Targeted Growth. "Any type of modification requires intricate understanding of...

By Natalie(noreply@blogger.com) “To ensure the success of these investments, BP is concentrating new business development in these areas and will no longer be directly involved in the jatropha as a biofuel feedstock,” Sheila Williams, a London-based company spokeswoman, said today in an e-mail.

 NY AP , 06.17.09, 06:24 AM EDT PARIS -- A new report by the OECD says prices for agricultural commodities are likely to remain higher than they were on average over the past decade due to the biofuel industry's growing use of feedstock and renewed food ...

For now, San Carlos Bioenergy gets feedstock from the 9000-hectare San Carlos Sugar District in Negros Occidental. Early this year, Republic Act No. 9637 or the Biofuels Law of 2006 mandated that all locally sold gasoline must contain a 5% bioethanol ...

 DC These technologies include Edenspace Systems' Energy Corn, a feedstock that aims to cut the cost of producing cellulosic biofuels, and Coskata's Flex Ethanol technology, a hybrid approach to producing fuel-grade ethanol. ...

In 2008, EGAB entered into a 25-year agreement with the City of Edmonton to build and operate a waste-to-biofuels facility on municipal land and to receive the City's sorted municipal solid waste as feedstock, which amounts to about 100000 tonnes per ...

The industry has called on governments to support potential biofuel suppliers in developing the necessary feedstock and refining systems until the fledgling sustainable aviation biofuels industry has achieved the necessary critical mass. ...

Green Right Now  NH Of the 36 billion gallons, no more than 15 billion gallons can be corn-based ethanol, the remainder being advanced biofuels that meet at least a 50 percent GHG reduction requirement. Algae has emerged as a promising feedstock for future biofuels due to ... Green Right Now

 NY Algae biofuels at least are still getting millions in funding, though the idea is no closer to commercial development, in Earth2Tech. One biofuel feedstock is losing ground: Jatropha uses five times as much water as corn, making it an even less likely ...

 TX Palm oil is derived from the fruit and kernels of the oil palm. It naturally contains a high amount of beta-carotene, and is widely used in margarine, soaps and as a feedstock for biofuel. One proposed method to reduce emissions would involve providing ...

Related articles from New Zealand Herald, Florida Times-Union.

 Philippines The two companies, with the help of their foreign partners, will develop lands for bioethanol and biodiesel feedstock production in various parts of the country. Bioethanol producer Enviro Plasma, Co., Ltd. and Central Luzon Bioenergy Corp. will put up ...

Algae for bioenergy Like the so-called “algaepreneurs,” who are investing in algae's potential as a feedstock for biofuel. Yes, in the beginning, there was algae. And from this algae came oil, and from oil, gasoline, and from gasoline, the ability to get where we need to ...

In fact, some experts think that it might even beat out corn, sugar cane or even switchgrass as an environmentally friendly biofuel feedstock. As an added benefit, algae thrives on common water pollutants like phosphorous, so farming it in a controlled ...

 Philippines Yap stressed that the DA's policy is to encourage the development of lands for biofuel feedstock, which focuses on areas where nonfood crops, such as jatropha, are grown, rather than on farmlands used for the production of palay, corn and other ...

 Philippines For instance, the department's thrust to produce biofuel feedstock focuses on areas where non-food crops such as jatropha are grown, rather than on farmlands used for the production of palay and corn, Mr. Yap said. The country has as much as 1.9 ...

At least some commodity market enthusiasm for beans has evaporated since soybean oil's role as a biofuel feedstock may be limited. “In order to meet the GHG threshold of 50 percent for biomass-based diesel, a biodiesel production facility would need to ...

 ND The center contributes to carbohydrate research in a wide variety of areas, including biofuels. The CCRC's biofuel research focuses on determining the structure of the carbohydrate that is left behind after a cellulosic feedstock is pretreated.

In this process, hydrogen is added to remove oxygen from the biological feedstock such as oil from jatropha plants or algae. The result is a bio-derived jet fuel that acts as a drop-in replacement for petroleum-based jet fuel and meets all of the critical specifications for flight. 

By Mike Millikin A preliminary analysis of a feedstock-flexible biomass waste/residue thermochemical pathway for liquid fuel production by researchers at Purdue University suggests that such a “flexible carbon to liquid” fuel (FCTL) process could replace 15%-20% of transportation fuels consum...

By Mike Millikin The impact of biofuels on greenhouse gas emissions differs according to feedstock, location, agricultural practices and conversion technology. In some cases, the net effect is unfavorable. The largest impact is determined by land-use change—for example through deforestation—as a...

By Mike Millikin India’s current feedstock for ethanol production is mainly molasses, and the country has sufficient supplies from its sugar industry to meet the 5% target, Muttemvar said. However, to increase the blending proportion to 10%, the country will need to develop cellulosic ethanol capabi...

By Sebastian Blanco If you think ethanol = green, consider the possibility of an ethanol plant in Iowa (that uses potatoes or sugar beets as a feedstock) that's powered by excess heat from a nuclear power plant. It's supposed to be cheap, and it does reuse energy that might otherwise be wasted, but nuclear etha...

By Mike Millikin One illustrative example of a Green Biofuels Index based on global warming and a feedstock rating. Click to enlarge. Measure the overall environmental performance of biomass feedstock production. Creating Markets for Green Biofuels

By Mike Millikin The core of the process is the Skygas gasifier which converts the feedstock at moisture contents of up to 55% to a synthesis gas high in carbon monoxide and hydrogen. Utilizing different catalytic processes, the syngas can be converted into ethanol, methanol, DME and diesel, or it can be u...

By Mike Millikin “Development of switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) as a bioenergy feedstock in the United States”; Samuel B. McLaughlin and Lynn Adams Kszos; Biomass and Bioenergy Volume 28, Issue 6 , June 2005, Pages 515-535 Breaking the Biological Barriers to Cellulosic Ethanol: A Joint Research Agen...