Biofuel

By rss@youtube.com (FBIFarms) Oil being extracted from Jatropha seeds. This oil can be used to create a clean burning biofuel that can be used in any diesel engine Author: FBIFarms Keywords: jatropha jatropha oil biodiesel fbi farms farming biodiesel oil press Added: February 22, 2009

By rss@youtube.com (CaptainFaisal) The seed of a tropical plant called jatropha plant is fueling Air New Zealand's planes started with Boeing 747-400, saving money and the Earth. For two hours, pilots tested the oil, in a 50-50 blend with conventional jet fuel in one of the four Rolls-Royce engines powering a Boeing 747-400...

By rss@youtube.com (chris19770602) The world's first commercial aviation test flight powered by a sustainable second-generation biofuel took-off at 11:30am (NZ time) from Auckland International Airport. The approximately two-hour test flight is utilising a biofuel blend of 50:50 jatropha and Jet A1 fuel to power one...

By rss@youtube.com (PeopleandPlace) JATROFA PEPINYE is a nonprofit Haitian enterprise working with local farmers and rural communities to "grow" biodiesel. It is administered by Partner for People and Place, a US nonprofit www.peopleandplace.org Keywords: Jatropha curcas biodiesel biofuel Haiti green energy sustaina...

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...

By Emma Ritch Zarai Taraqiati Bank is coordinating a deal between South Korea and Pakistan to use the latter's arid deserts to grow the drought resistant plant.

By Natalie(noreply@blogger.com) Jatropha, however, has a much shorter generation time. "From the time you plant a seed to the time it grows, matures, blossoms, flowers and produces a seed, it’s about nine months," Schmidt says. With such a quick turn-around, SG Biofuels says they expect to increase the oil yields of the sc...

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.

 VA With oil prices so low right now, jet fuel is relatively inexpensive. The cost-efficiency of the process of producing the biofuel is not as competitive as it could be. However, if oil prices rise again in the future, such biofuels may become more ...

 United States Fuel efficiency from the 50-50 mix was about 1.1 percent higher, the airline said. The biofuel blend included components derived from algae and jatropha rather than food crops. Greenhouse gas emissions for production and consumption of the biofuel ...

 Kenya They found that jatropha needs an average of 20000 litres of water for every litre of biodiesel, well above the 14000 litres needed by rapeseed biodiesel. And when compared to ethanol made from sugar or corn, jatropha needs about five times as much ...

 NJ This year, in the first demonstration flight on a twin-engine aircraft involving Continental Airlines and a CFM 56-7-powered Boeing 737-800, a Generation 2 biofuel was employed using Jatropha and algae (5 percent). The aim is to use biofuels that are ...

 Singapore The firm hopes to grow up to 50000 hectares of jatropha trees, and use the seeds for biodiesel manufacturing. The investment is also in line with the island's plan to reduce carbon emissions and cut its reliance on fossil fuels, said Arthur Kung, ...

The IATA said that its members plan to replace 10 percent of aircraft jet fuel with "alternative fuels" by 2017. Since February 2008, four airlines have experimented with filling their planes with biofuel mixes of jatropha, algae, or coconut oil, ...

What if jatropha turns out to be an ideal biofuel? What if tidal power or geothermal energy or something truly far-fetched -- "clean coal," maybe -- turns ... and more »

Seeds harvested from jatropha trees yield oil used in the manufacture of biodiesel. Jatropha is CPC's preferred choice for biodiesel as it doesn't compete with food crops, Kung said. CPC may even sell the fuel in Europe, possibly pitting itself against ...

 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 ...

produce oil to feed a biodiesel industry. It needs to asked again if the industry is repeating this kind of "Jatropha euphoria" with other biofuels like algal biodiesel and cellulosic ethanol which will eventually lead to the same disillusion.

The biofuels included blends of babassu, oil from sustainably grown coconuts, jatropha, algae and camelina. Boeing officials say that camelina, with its ability to grow on poor soils and to produce high amounts of oil, holds the most promise for ...

He added that an increase in the demand of biofuel would help farmers who cultivate jatropha and algae, from which the fuel is largely being produced in India, earn more income. According to Kalam, the argument that using plants for biofuel production ...

By Natalie(noreply@blogger.com) ACGT and SGI have focused on Jatropha for several reasons: it is a tropical tree that is one of the highest yielding oilseed plants in the world; it can be grown on marginal, non-food producing lands; has a very short generation time; can be productive for 30 to 40 years; and its seed oil and b...

 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 ...

 ND “[Jatropha oil] is a very high-quality oil and serves as a great source for biofuel and biodiesel,” said Brian Brokowski, director of media relations for SG Biofuels. SG Biofuels research efforts include selection and breeding, and the company has ...

By Dave Demerjian Petroleum Week estimates that producing that much fuel from jatropha, one of the more promising bio-fuel prospects, would require planting 1.4 million square kilometers of it, an area twice the size of France. And that's bad news for governments who see alternative fuels as a way to tell M...

By Mike Millikin JAL, Boeing, Pratt & Whitney, and UOP have committed to the use of second-generation biofuel feedstocks that are more efficient and sustainable energy than first-generation counterparts. Second-generation biofuel feedstocks, such as camelina, jatropha and algae, do not comp...

By David Neal Yup, they might not wish to invite them to any conferences, but biofuel advocates have new some new converts in the form of the Burmese government. Apparently they have instructed the population, or as they like to call them, the "peasants" to grow as many of the jatropha curcas plants as po...

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.