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Denmark can triple its biomass production and improve the environment

Gabriel — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 20:56:11 +0000

The industry is interested in establishing a biorefinery sector in Denmark that can replace oil-based products with biofriendly materials, chemicals, energy and fuel. But this requires a larger biomass production than we are currently achieving. Scientists from University of Copenhagen and Aarhus University have published an extensive report that shows how we can increase the […]

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Biodegradable robot-an environmentally friendly robot

Gabriel — Tue, 01 May 2012 18:55:39 +0000

Robots that decompose once they have reached the end of their mission could soon be deployed in the environment, thanks to a Research Project Grant of over £200,000 from the Leverhulme Trust. Dr Jonathan Rossiter, Senior Lecturer in the University of Bristol’s Department of Engineering Mathematics and a member of the Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL), […]

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High-Yield Method for Producing Everyday Plastics from Biomass

Gabriel — Tue, 01 May 2012 18:46:17 +0000

A team of chemical engineers led by Paul J. Dauenhauer of the University of Massachusetts Amherst has discovered a new, high-yield method of producing the key ingredient used to make plastic bottles from biomass. The process is inexpensive and currently creates the chemical p-xylene with an efficient yield of 75-percent, using most of the biomass […]

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First Waste to Bioenergy Facility in Florida

Gabriel — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:03:38 +0000

INEOS Bio’s first commercial project in the United States has secured key permits to build its waste to bioenergy facility in Indian River County, Florida. The INEOS Bio joint venture has obtained its final air permit and environmental resource permit from the State of Florida, its wetlands permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, […]

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UOP refining technologies will be used to produce biodiesel from biomass

Gabriel — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:10:53 +0000

Honeywell company, announced today that its technology was selected for use in Rentech, Inc.’s Rialto Renewable Energy center for the conversion of biomass to transportation fuels. The renewable energy center, to be built in Rialto, Calif., will convert biomass, such as yard and tree trimmings, into renewable, ultra-clean biodiesel and renewable electricity. The new facility […]

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Gevo to Produce Isobutanol in Minnesota

Gabriel — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:29:36 +0000

Isobutanol is a naturally occurring, four-carbon alcohol found in food and some alcoholic beverages. It is also a “drop-in” platform chemical with broad applications in the product of approximately 40 percent of petrochemicals and 100 percent of hydrocarbon fuels. It can be used directly for a solvent and converted to isobutylene, the raw material for […]

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Genera Energy breaks ground on Biomass Innovation Park

Gabriel — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:37:41 +0000

US Department of Agriculture Under Secretary for Rural Development Dallas Tonsager recently helped Genera Energy leadership break ground on Tennessee’s Biomass Innovation Park, a one-of-a-kind campus that integrates and optimizes the entire biomass supply chain. The Biomass Innovation Park will provide harvesting, handling, storage, densification, pre-processing and transportation for multiple feedstocks including switchgrass. Located adjacent […]

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100% renewable energy within ten years in Australia

Gabriel — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:50:58 +0000

Exciting new report, Zero Carbon Australia Stationary Energy Plan – to be launched at University of Melbourne in 14 july 2010 – argues that it is technically possible to reach 100 % renewable energy for Australia within a decade, and that the technology to achieve the transition is already commercially available. This event brings together […]

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Novozymes and Lignol sign deal to make biofuel from wood

Gabriel — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:22:20 +0000

Partners to develop a commercially viable process for making ethanol from forestry waste. Aiming for a cost down to $2 per gallon, a price competitive with gasoline and corn ethanol. Novozymes, the world’s leading producer of industrial enzymes, and Lignol Energy Corporation, a leading company in the cellulosic ethanol sector, today signed a research and […]

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First Firing of PetroAlgae’s Biomass Fuel

Gabriel — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:25:46 +0000

Siemens Energy has successfully completed the first green diesel engineering, firing of PetroAlgae Inc.’s biocrude fuel, a plant-based, micro-crop biomass material that is processed into a solid residue. The biocrude fuel was combined with pulverized coal in a pilot-scale burner with a thermal capacity of approximately 4 MBtu/hr. In the pilot-scale test at the University […]

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