Articles in Biofuels Engine Design
(UOP) Fuel produced using Honeywell’s UOP process technology will power the first helicopter flight on sustainable biofuels.
UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, announced June 16, 2010, that Honeywell Green Jet Fuel(TM) produced using its Green Jet Fuel process technology …
(National Acadamies) Various combinations of commercially available technologies could greatly reduce fuel consumption in passenger cars, sport-utility vehicles, minivans, and other light-duty vehicles without compromising vehicle performance or safety, says a new report by the National …
(Xomba) Megha Rathee’s mint green Scorpio sits like any other car in a corporate parking lot in Gurgaon, Delihi’s suburb of global companies. There’s no indication that is a remarkable vehicle – India’s first commercial car …
by John Morris (Aviation Week) EADS will make the world’s first public flight of an aircraft with an engine powered solely by third-generation algae-derived biofuel here at ILA.
A Diamond DA42 with Austro Engine AE300 diesel powerplants …
by Mary Rinzel (WEAU 13 News) …The plane we’re talking about isn’t just any plane, the Fagen MX2 flies solely on ethanol, which is something Pilot Greg Poe is very proud to point out as …
by Zach Gale (Motor Trend) Mississippi State’s Saturn Vue-based biodiesel hybrid is the winning vehicle for year two of General Motors’ EcoCAR challenge.
The EcoCAR challenge started when GM donated an SUV to 16 universities and instructed …
by Larry P. Vellequette (Toledo Blade) A year ago, hundreds of people flocked to a 100,000-square-foot former factory building in Wauseon’s industrial area where a Napoleon, Ohio, inventor promised to begin building engines that would travel …
(Michelin) The new Porsche GT-R Hybrid/Michelin led for a significant amount of last weekend’s Nürburgring 24 Hours before being sidelined with an hour remaining. Victory in the FIA Alternative Energies Cup went to Volkswagen’s biogas-fuelled Scirocco …
(General Motors) Student-Designed and Built Vehicles Put to the Test; Virginia Tech, Penn State Finish Second and Third.
Students from Mississippi State University placed first in the 2010 EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge finals in San Diego …
by Bob Kozak (Advanced Biofuels USA) Our friends at DeltaWing Racing brought their DeltaWing Prototype to the Indiana Society of Washington DC for their annual Indy 500 reception last week. “Senior Green Motor Sports Correspondent” and …
(Times Live) A Durban company has unveiled a light aircraft engine which can operate on biofuel or liquid petroleum gas.
“Our technology benchmarks South Africa against the finest aviation engineering in the world,” said Andre Schoeman, chairman …
(Eco-Car Challenge) Year Two of the EcoCAR Challenge has proven to be a test of wills for the 16 North American universities participating in this fierce competition. Over the last academic year, EcoCAR teams have spent …
by Michelle Kautz (DomesticFuel.com) The Alternative Fuel Vehicle Institute (AFVI) 2010 Conference is now in full swing in Las Vegas. The 16th annual event is offering its attendees a wide array of workshops and sessions …
(Sandia National Laboratory) Understanding the key elements of biofuel combustion is an important step toward insightful selection of next-generation alternative fuels.
And that’s exactly what researchers at Sandia and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories are doing. The journal …
by Ariel Schwartz (Inhabitat) Plenty of airlines are testing out biofuels in passenger jets, but helicopters have largely been ignored — until now. Australia-based Delta Helicopters is developing what it says is the first biofuel-capable diesel …
by Matthew L. Wald (New York Times) Citing new test data, the auto industry says the federal government’s plan to raise the amount of ethanol mixed into gasoline will damage cars and increase the amount …
(The Ford Motor Company) Ford is delivering on its 2006 pledge to double the number of flexible-fuel vehicles produced in the U.S. by the end of 2010. Ford produced nearly 185,000 2006 model year flexible-fuel vehicles.
The …
(Renewable Fuel Association) The Renewable Fuel Association has put together an informational boating document concerning ethanol-blended fuels and marine equipment. Many areas across the country successfully utilize only ethanol-blended fuels year-round and across all octane …
by Sam Abuelsamid (AutoBlogGreen) …According Jim Federico, vehicle line executive for the global mid-size platform, combining direct injection and turbocharging will allow the new engine to get much closer to the volumetric fuel efficiency of …
(Fox News) When NASCAR takes the green flag in 2011, race cars are expected to be fueled by E15 — a mixture of 15 percent ethanol and 85 percent gasoline.
Hendrick Motorsports is already testing the …
(UPI) Amtrak plans to operate its Heartland Flyer Oklahoma-Texas service on animal-based biodiesel for the next year, officials say.
The first biodiesel-powered train pulled into Fort Worth, Texas, Tuesday, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram said. The train …
by Jason Paur (Wired) …A small company in Indiana is leading the way for creating an alternative fuel for piston-powered airplanes around the world. Swift Enterprises has created a biomass-derived, synthetic fuel that has already …
by Michelle Kautz (DomesticFuels) Tomorrow (April 22, 2010) will kick of the National Flexible Fuel Vehicle (FFV) Awareness Campaign across the state of Nebraska. The educational campaign is a joint project of the Clean Fuels Fuondation, …
by Ken Anderson (Brownfield Ag News) …IRFA managing director Lucy Norton says E85 is currently running about 90 cents less than E10 gasoline in Iowa. Even factoring in a 15 percent decrease in fuel economy, …
by Nina Fowler (National Business Review) Queenstown tourism operators are scrambling to establish a viable local biofuel industry before government assistance expires.
The Queenstown Lakes Biodiesel Consortium’s pilot scheme has been the beneficiary of a two-year government …
by Bob Brook (Automotive Industries) New information and comment by combustion experts at the recent SAE Congress meeting here provide substantial reasons to believe critical fuel combustion could be the first fundamental combustion advance for …
(POET) Technology ready, CEO says, but loan guarantee, policy stability and market access still needed to achieve vision.
POET plans to have a hand in producing 3.5 billion gallons of cellulosic ethanol per year by 2022, …
by Gordon Dickson (Star-Telegram) Where’s the beef? It’s in the belly of that Amtrak locomotive.
Shortly after noon Tuesday, the Amtrak Heartland Flyer pulled into downtown Fort Worth. It looked and smelled like pretty much any …
by Martin LaMonica (cnet News) The U.S. auto industry needs to “go green” in more than one way, says Bill Ford. Ford is committed to making its vehicles more fuel efficient by investing in a …
(Progressive Railroading) Under “one of the most extensive testing programs to date on the use of biodiesel fuel for locomotives,” eight SD70M-2 units and two MP15 switchers manufactured by EMD and owned/operated by NS will …
(The AutoChannel) Mazda Australia will use ethanol blend fuel to power its turbo rotary Mazda RX-8 SP at the upcoming Targa Tasmania rally.
With event regulations now encouraging competitors to go green and consider alternate fuels, …
(e-releases) High-power sparkplug promises to improve combustion efficiency in ethanol-fueled vehicles with fuel provided by E-Fuel equipment.
Ignition products company ENERPULSE, Inc. announced that their proprietary Pulstar(R) pulse plugs have been adopted by E-Fuel of Los …
by Gary Chittim (King5News) The nation’s largest boat owners’ group wants the federal Environmental Protection Agency to slow down on plans to increase the ethanol content in the nation’s gasoline supply.
U.S. gasoline currently contains about …
(GreenAirOnline) The US Air Force has carried out the first-ever feasibility flight powered solely by a blended hydrotreated renewable jet fuel. The twin-engined A-10C Thunderbolt used a 50/50 blend of conventional military JP-8 jet fuel …
(TheAutoChannel) The National Biodiesel Board’s The Biodiesel Bulletin reported that General Motors is the latest OEM to show support for a 20 percent blend of biodiesel (B20) in its diesel vehicles. Company officials announced to …
by Gal Luft (The Baltimore Sun) …While both drilling and efficiency promise little relief, with growing instability in the Middle East and millions of Chinese and Indians moving from bicycles to cars, it is almost …
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) There is hardly an organization in the world that has done more of the heavy lifting and hard work for ethanol than Growth Energy, but it takes a fair bit …
by Megan Peterson (WEAU.com) A group of Durand High School (Wisconsin) students made the trip to Texas this past weekend to compete in a national competition to see who can build the most fuel efficient …
A new study by the Center for Integrated Manufacturing Studies at Rochester Institute of Technology indicates that the use of E20 fuel, which blends 20 percent ethanol with gasoline, reduces the tail pipe emissions of …
by Joanna Schroeder (DomesticFuel.com) …The easiest way to gain the improved fuel economy is through “engine downsizing,” in other words, using smaller engines. But the new smaller engine technologies will not mean less power, like …
(Michelin) Building on the success it encountered in 2009, the MICHELIN GREEN X Challenge is to be organised once again and will this year cover the American Le Mans Series, the Le Mans Series, the …
(GreenAirOnline) Carbon pricing is critical to the business case for aviation biofuels as airlines join schemes such as the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), which starts in 2012, said British Airways’ Head of Environment …
(Racer.com) NASCAR vice president of competition Robin Pemberton says that the sanctioning body is on target for introducing fuel injection systems to Sprint Cup racing for 2011. He added that NASCAR is also close to …
Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) In Germany, Dr. Jurgen Ringbeck, Senior Partner of Booz & Co said “Fuel is strategic, and there is an argument that can be made that an energy monopoly will be dominating …
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) BIO exec VP Brent Erickson ruefully noted in a conference with reporters that the biofuels industry was “very disappointed in the loan guarantee program. Biomass was mixed in with wind …
Bye Energy, Inc., an integrator of alternative energy and renewable fuel technologies for business and general aviation aircraft, is launching “The Green Flight Project” to enhance the development of an electric and electric-hybrid propulsion system …
by Bob Kozak (Advanced Biofuels USA) It is Memorial Day Weekend 2013, the annual Indianapolis 500 car race is attracting the largest crowd in years. The televison audience is also looking to be a record, …
(Michelin) The USA’s American Le Mans Series endurance racing championship, which was first organised in 1999, has released its new slogan: ‘Global Leader, Green Racing’. Meanwhile, MICHELIN will continue to back the 2010 MICHELIN GREEN X …
The Ford F-Series Super Duty is the most powerful and fuel efficient for the 2011 model year, offering customers their choice of either gas or diesel engines
…B20 compatibility added for 2011 model year: The strict …
(DTN Ethanol Center) President Barack Obama will continue championing biofuels as a job creator, said Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack when he spoke to members of the Governors’ Biofuels Coalition on Monday. Vilsack is hopeful …
