FIRST PRIZE: Working as a chemical engineer for Blue Marble biomaterials has given Adrienne Bull “experiences I would have never had at other, larger firms. The ever-changing atmosphere here is what excites me as an employee, and sets Blue Marble apart. Here I am closing one of the fermentation tanks used for biomass degradation. If I had […]
FIRST PRIZE: A Codexis researcher monitors biofuels process scale up in a ten-liter fermenter facility for the Shell advanced biofuels program at the company’s Redwood City labs. According to the US Dept of Energy, demand for petroleum and liquid fuels will increase by 27 million barrels per day by 2035. Photo by: Codexis Biofuels Digest […]
FIRST PRIZE: V8 Supercars Australia and Sucrogen BioEthanol E85. Fuel Control have developed a system where Fuel Control arranges the mixing of Sucrogen Fuel Ethanol with 98 Octane petrol in a dedicated 52000 litre tank to create Sucrogen BioEthanol E85. The fuel Control team then transport and dispense the E85 at every V8 Supercar event. […]
FIRST PRIZE: Nathan VanVelzen pumping waste vegetable oil from a local restaurant for AES’s biofuelproject.com. The WVO to be used for AES’s BioGen systems which earlier this year generated over 130,000 kilowatt hours on demand for less than $50,000. Photo: Elizabeth L. King. Biofuels Digest adds: “One of the most visually interesting, upbeat and colorful […]
By Sam A. Rushing. Background As of 2011, without the deployment of new merchant CO2 plants, there are about 36 standing CO2 plants today which are only fed by ethanol by-product raw gas. This represents about 32% of the total number of fermentation plants serving the merchant sector. The total number of merchant CO2 plants […]
In Texas, Southwest Research Institute launched the International Alternative Fuel Technology Center (IAFTC), drawing from a variety of disciplines at the Institute to offer all alternative fuels capabilities under one umbrella, to provide original equipment manufacturers and fuel suppliers a comprehensive approach to resolve their technical challenges. SwRI laboratories are outfitted with state-of-the-art instrumentation and […]
In Canada, CORE BioFuel has finalized the last testing steps required for its wood-to-gasoline MKS Gasoline Synthesis Process under contract with RECAT Technologies who completed a set of test runs of the catalytic reaction producing gasoline from dimethyl ether. The company says the tests show the MKS process to produce superior gasoline to ExxonMobil’s commercial […]
In South Africa, South African Airlines may have to use as much as 50% biofuels in its fuel supply by 2020 in order to avoid carbon penalties, which could in turn be the stimulus needed to create a thriving biofuels industry in South Africa and the region. Currently South Africa limits biofuel feedstocks to sorghum, […]
Today on Twitter. BioeconomyInst: Natural gas: A threat to biofuels? theclimateguy: Second-generation ethanol processing, to ease pressure on corn and sugar, cost prohibitive: Shell: Electric? Hydrogen? Biofuels? See what #Shell thinks could power cars of the future SpenserVillwock #BioFuel ‘Super yeast’ gobbles up trees, spits out ethanol for biofuel – DVICE Growth_Force Tired of people […]
In the UK, research from the University of Leicester on behalf of the International Council on Clean Transportation says that palm oil produced in peatland areas generates 86 tonnes of carbon dioxide per hectare per year over a 50-year period, nearly double the previous estimate of 50 tonnes but as the EU’s renewable energy directive […]
