Truly Sustainable Renewable Future
March 17, 2009 – 10:42 am | No Comment

Advanced Biofuels are high-energy liquid transportation fuels derived from: low nutrient input/high per acre yield crops; agricultural or forestry waste; or other sustainable biomass feedstocks including algae.  The key word is “sustainable.”
A technical definition that …

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University of Florida Breaks Ground on Taylor Ethanol Plant
March 9, 2010 – 7:21 am | No Comment

by Nathan Crabbe (Gainsville Sun)  The farms and forests of the state could be providing more fuel for its vehicles in the future if a new University of Florida plant is a success.

UF officials held …

The DeltaWing Indy Race Car Is Not Only the Future: It’s Important!
March 4, 2010 – 6:16 pm | No Comment

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, …

Transitioning from 1st Generation to Advanced Biofuels
March 4, 2010 – 4:42 pm | No Comment

by GTM Research in partnership with Enterprise Florida, Inc.    In recent years, the growth in the U.S. biofuels production and consumption has been driven largely by policy measures. Mandates are requiring increasing amounts of biofuels …

Solid Separation, Product Drying and Oil Extraction Opportunities
March 4, 2010 – 7:50 am | No Comment

by Tony Prehm  (Virtuoso Biofuels Services)  Prepared for the March 2010 National Algal Association conference in Las Vegas, reviews a variety of processes used in algal biomass-to-biofuels production, including separating solids, drying the product and …

Spring Algae Bloom: an Inside Look at the DOE’s New Algal Fuels Consortium, the NAABB.
March 4, 2010 – 7:25 am | No Comment

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  was a cold Wednesday afternoon in January when the news came through that a consortium called the National Alliance for Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts had received a $44 million grant …

Ensus Signs with Shell, Sends First Tanker
March 2, 2010 – 4:06 pm | No Comment

by Luke Geiver (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  The first tanker of ethanol has left Ensus, Europe’s largest wheat-based ethanol facility. Headed for the Netherlands, the cargo, which has been purchased by Shell as part of a …

Canada’s Ethanol Boom, Minus the Boom
March 2, 2010 – 3:40 pm | No Comment

by Shawn McCarthy  (Globe and Mail)  Three years ago, a tiny Ottawa biotechnology firm, Iogen Corp., had the very rare privilege of being singled out by the government as a company that would benefit directly …

Ethanol Pipeline No Longer Pipe Dream
March 2, 2010 – 3:20 pm | No Comment

by Cindy Zimmerman (DomesticFuel)  Those attending the Renewable Fuels Association 15th annual National Ethanol Conference in Orlando last month had the opportunity to see the Kinder Morgan terminal in Orlando and hear about the first …

Honeywell’s UOP Awarded Funding for Carbon Dioxide Capture and Reuse Through Algae Growth and Biofuel Production
March 2, 2010 – 3:12 pm | No Comment

UOP, a Honeywell (NYSE:HON) company, announced today that it has been awarded a $1.5 million cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of Energy for a project to demonstrate technology to capture carbon dioxide and produce …

Stacking Traits in Algae is Focus of Grant to Iowa State University Researcher
March 2, 2010 – 2:57 pm | No Comment

Genetically stacking traits in corn in order to increase production, resist insects, improve standablity and many other characteristics is so common in agriculture that producers have come to expect it.
Some traits found in corn help …

Sustainable Foresting: Easier Said than Done
March 1, 2010 – 12:28 pm | No Comment

E. Detlef Schulze and Inge Schulze(Science) letter to editor   It is commonly held that planting forests helps to mitigate climate change, because forests sequester carbon dioxide into long-lived biomass and soils.  However, our personal experience shows …

Integrated Catalytic Conversion of -Valerolactone to Liquid Alkenes for Transportation Fuels
March 1, 2010 – 9:22 am | No Comment

byJesse Q. Bond, David Martin Alonso, Dong Wang, Ryan M. West, James A. Dumesic  (Science)  Efficient synthesis of renewable fuels remains a challenging and important line of research. We report a strategy by which aqueous …

TerraSolutions Take Top Honors at 23rd Annual Business-Plan Competition
February 27, 2010 – 4:38 pm | No Comment

by Phillip Fiorini (Purdue Newsroom)  Student-led companies that develop consumer products from the byproducts of ethanol production and a tissue-healing technology that also reduces scarring took top honors at Purdue University’s 23rd annual $100,000 Burton …

Biofuels Programme at The Maltings, South Milford
February 27, 2010 – 4:14 pm | No Comment

(Mytum & Selby Waste Recycling, Ltd)  “The fuel of the future is going to come from fruit like that sumach out by the road, or from apples, weeds, sawdust, and even municipal waste - almost …

A Green Energy Alternative …The Free Enterprise Approach
February 27, 2010 – 3:59 pm | No Comment

(GeneSyst International, Inc.) This presentation from a  2009 Virginia Energy Summit explains, complemented by charts and graphs, GeneSyst’s combination of patents and proprietary technologies for converting waste to energy, utilizing the Gravity Pressure Vessel (GPV).   Of particular interest may be …

Key Metric Comparison of Five Cellulosic Biofuel Pathways
February 27, 2010 – 3:40 pm | No Comment

by Ben A. Thorp (TAPPI BioEnergy Technologies Quarterly)  (T)he modern pathways for cellulose biofuels are pyrolysis, gasification, acid hydrolysis, and enzymatic hydrolysis. 
… Commercial efforts in cellulosic biofuels are new and data to compare a specific …

Syngenta Keen on Sugarcane Biotech Research in Brazil
February 26, 2010 – 8:42 am | No Comment

(SugarcaneBlog.com)  European biotech giant Syngenta has set up partnership with Brazil’s Instituto Agronomico (IAC) to increase development of sugarcane varieties, particularly for the production of ethanol.  READ MORE  and MORE

American Process Inc. Establishes Pilot Plant
February 26, 2010 – 7:30 am | No Comment

by Holly Jensen (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  American Process Inc. (API), an Atlanta, Ga., based company, held a ribbon cutting ceremony this week at its pilot plant. It will utilize a trademarked process, called American Value …

2011 Ford F-Series Super Duty Leads Heavy-Duty Trucks in Capability, Now Fuel Ecomomy and B20 or E85 Compatibility Too
February 25, 2010 – 12:39 pm | One Comment

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 …

A Tree in Your Tank? $3.2M NSF Grant Funds Effort to Transform Poplar Trees into Biofuel
February 25, 2010 – 7:26 am | No Comment

Gas money for your tank doesn’t grow on trees, but one day you might be filling up with fuel that does.
 
A team of researchers at the University of Maryland, College Park, and Bowie State University …

Co-location Could Make Algae Biofuels Affordable
February 24, 2010 – 1:13 pm | No Comment

by Mark Fischetti  (Scientific American)  …But as more new and established companies examine how to scale up lab processes to commercial levels, scientists and engineers seem to be finding that standalone operations may not be …

North Dakota State University Economist Helps Sort Out Biofuel’s Future
February 24, 2010 – 11:55 am | No Comment

by Mikkel Pates (AgWeek)  Need some help in deciding what to make into biofuels and what the government should be spending on it?   If you’re a North Dakotan, you’ve hired Cole Gustafson to do some …

Tunisia: Local Scientist Develops New Technique for Extracting Biodiesel
February 23, 2010 – 11:20 am | No Comment

(AllAfrica.com)  …The latest achievement which comes to us from Sfax, is the development of a new technique for extracting biodiesel from olive water (a black liquid formed primarily by water discharged from olives during oil …

Yogyakarta, Indonesia: Villagers Turn Local Fruit into Biodiesel
February 23, 2010 – 11:03 am | No Comment

(New Tang Dynasty Television)  The kamani tree grows well throughout the coastal area in Yogyakarta, and produces abundant fruit. Traditionally, the fruit is used for cooking and firewood. But villagers in Yogyakarta are using it …

Butalco Announces It Is to Produce Its First Cellulosic Ethanol in Summer 2010
February 23, 2010 – 10:56 am | No Comment

(PRInside.com) This summer, Butalco will use its proprietary new yeast technology to produce biofuel from agricultural waste in a pilot plant in Southern Germany. Butalco’s new microbial catalysts will enable up to 30% increased yields in …

Aviation Biofuels: The Bumpy Road to Scale Production
February 23, 2010 – 10:35 am | No Comment

by Niall O’Keeffe  (FlightGlobal)  Both of the major commercial airframers have joined forces with industry peers to pursue new biofuel research initiatives, reflecting an intensification of concern about future availability of alternative fuels in the …

Gene Discovery to Increase Biomass Needed for Green Fuel
February 22, 2010 – 3:41 pm | No Comment

(S)ays Professor Simon Turner, one of the University of Manchester researchers whose BBSRC-funded study is published in Development (Wednesday 10th February 2010), “Our work has identified the two genes that make plants grow outwards. The …

Everyday Grass Could Provide Green Fuel
February 22, 2010 – 3:29 pm | No Comment

Researchers at the  (Teesside) University’s Contaminated Land and Water Centre began the project in 2004 to see which plants could best be grown on brownfield sites as a way of improving unsightly blots on the …

‘Fuel Cocktail’ to Increase Bio-Diesel Yields
February 22, 2010 – 11:21 am | No Comment

(The Hindu)  Chemists at UC (University of California) Davis have developed a new process that enable oilseed crops such as safflower to be made into a fuel cocktail that could increase yields of bio-diesel by …

SG Biofuels Launches World’s First Elite Jatropha Cultivar
February 22, 2010 – 11:16 am | No Comment

SG Biofuels, a sustainable plant oil company specializing in the development of Jatropha as a low-cost, sustainable source of oil, today announced the launch of JMax 100, a proprietary cultivar of Jatropha optimized for growing …

Eco-Biofuels from the Tropics
February 22, 2010 – 10:37 am | No Comment

Palm oil from South-East Asia, sugarcane from Brazil and sweet sorghum in China are the most sustainable energy crops at present. Maize from the US and wheat in Europe have a much more negative environmental …

Green Racing Fuel ‘Ignite’ Gains Proven
February 21, 2010 – 3:25 pm | No Comment

by Michael Berenis (Tampa Sports Car Examiner)   The world of green racing fuels is about to change! Eddie Bello is the world record holder for fastest Porsche in the Texas Mile. In 2008, he set …

Indiana Company Leading ARCA West Fuel Conversion
February 21, 2010 – 3:11 pm | No Comment

(Inside Indiana Business)  Sales and marketing arm of ARCA West, Itzen Media officially announced that Ignite Racing Fuel will become the title sponsor of the ARCA West Series. Ignite Racing Fuel will be replacing previous …

Aerospace Chief: Industry on Track to Deliver ‘Greener’ Aircraft
February 19, 2010 – 3:21 pm | No Comment

(EurActiv.com)  Industry is on track to ensure “carbon-neutral growth” in the aviation sector from 2020, but strengthened European Union support for research and development (R&D) is vital to help manufacturers deliver the green technologies required, …

Orange Peels, Newspapers May Lead to Cheaper, Cleaner Ethanol Fuel
February 18, 2010 – 4:25 pm | No Comment

(ScienceBlog)  University of Central Florida professor Henry Daniell has developed a groundbreaking way to produce ethanol from waste products such as orange peels and newspapers. His approach is greener and less expensive than the current …

Miscanthus, Sweet Sorghum, Energy Cane Advancing at SERC
February 18, 2010 – 4:03 pm | No Comment

Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  In Mississippi, MSU professor Brian Baldwin provided an update on feedstock research at the MSU’s Sustainable Energy Research Center, where a focus on biofuels grasses has produced the recently licensed Freedom …

Volvo Group Announces Academic Partnership with Pennsylvania State University
February 18, 2010 – 1:42 pm | No Comment

At the Renewable Energy Technology Conference & Exhibition (RETECH 2010) the Volvo Group announced its first academic partnership in North America. Penn State was chosen as part of Volvo’s Academic Partner Program, which was launched …

Economics Improve for First Commercial Cellulosic Ethanol Plants
February 18, 2010 – 12:10 pm | No Comment

by Jessica Leber (ClimateWire New York Times)  Many cellulosic fuel producers are working with enzymes to break down tough, inedible plant parts, such as corncobs or switch grass, into simpler sugars that can be fermented …

Pyrolytic Bio-fuels Produced from Forestry and Agricultural Feedstocks
February 18, 2010 – 11:45 am | No Comment

by Philip H. Steele (Mississippi State University) This presentation explains the work being done by the Forest Products Department, Forest and Wildlife Research Center at MSU to develop bio-oil and drop-in biofuels using a fast …

All American Visionary: Dan Gurney
February 17, 2010 – 3:51 pm | No Comment

by Marshall Pruett (SPEEDTV.com)  … The biggest affront Gurney sees with the current version of an IndyCar is the singular thinking that goes into its design. Open competition has become a thing of the past, …

Improved Internal Combustion Engines: Zajac Motors
February 17, 2010 – 3:02 pm | No Comment

by Eric Weshoff (Greentechmedia)  …With a longer “residence time” and a constant temperature of 1425 degrees C, their split-cycle engine can make carbon fuels “virtually clean.”  The engine certainly emits CO2, although only half as …

Daimler Committed to Jatropha Biodiesel
February 17, 2010 – 2:55 pm | One Comment

(TheBioenergySite)   Daimler AG has started a new project for the cultivation of the biodiesel raw material jatropha in the south of India and the seedlings for the first 100 hectares have been planted.
 
The company …

Zea-Chem Creates Salable Glacial Acetic Acid, the Building Block for Cellulosic Ethanol and Bio-based Chemicals
February 17, 2010 – 1:55 pm | No Comment

ZeaChem Inc., a developer of biorefineries for the conversion of renewable biomass into fuels and chemicals, today announced it has produced bio-based acetic acid at the purity concentration level of a salable product. Acetic acid …

New Enzymes Turn Waste into $US2/gallon fuel
February 17, 2010 – 1:46 pm | No Comment

Novozymes launches the first commercially viable enzymes for production of biofuel from agricultural waste. Breakthroughs in enzyme technology enable cellulosic biofuel as a competitive alternative to gasoline.
 Novozymes’ new Cellic® CTec2 enzymes enable the biofuel industry …

Algae to Solve the Pentagon’s Jet Fuel Problem
February 17, 2010 – 1:26 pm | No Comment

by Suzanne Goldenberg  (The Guardian)   The brains trust of the Pentagon says it is just months away from producing a jet fuel from algae for the same cost as its fossil-fuel equivalent.
The claim, which comes …

USDA Scientists Sequence Genome of Biofuel Model Crop
February 17, 2010 – 11:21 am | No Comment

by Dennis O’Brien (Agricultural Research Service)  U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and their colleagues at the Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute announced that they have completed sequencing the genome of a kind …

Pyromaniax: Mississippi State’s SERC Group, among 18 Others, Developing Advanced Biofuels from Pyrolysis
February 16, 2010 – 6:47 pm | No Comment

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  … A few years back, when reporting on field work at the Sustainable Power complex in Baytown, Texas — the hoots from a significant section of the Digest readership reverberated …

Genencor Introduces Accellerase® DUET
February 16, 2010 – 4:17 pm | No Comment

Genencor, a division of Danisco A/S, introduced Accellerase® DUET at the Renewable Fuels Association’s 15th Annual National Ethanol Conference in Orlando, Fla. This product is the latest generation in the company’s line of enzymes used …

Verenium Introduces New Enzyme at Upcoming RFA National Ethanol Conference
February 15, 2010 – 5:30 pm | No Comment

Verenium Corporation, a pioneer in the development of next-generation cellulosic ethanol and high-performance specialty enzymes, announced the introduction of Xylathin, a highly active enzyme designed to significantly improve the economics of fuel ethanol production from …

Indirect Land-Use Changes Can Overcome Carbon Savings from Biofuels in Brazil
February 15, 2010 – 3:54 pm | No Comment

David M. Lapola, Ruediger Schaldach, Joseph Alcamo, Alberte Bondeau, Jennifer Koch, Christina Koelking, and Joerg A. Priess (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)  Abstract:  The planned expansion of biofuel plantations in Brazil could potentially …