Feb
15
An Elegant Answer to the US Biofuel Challenge
February 15, 2012 | 3 Comments
Jim Lane at Biofuelsdigest.com has written an article worthy of serious consideration to answer the U.S. challenge in law to produce 36 billion gallons of biofuel annually. Ethanol from corn, now well past the E-10 or 10% blend share and looking to get to 15% and much more E-85 (85%) sales plus various ratios in […]
Oct
28
Biomass Direct Process to Hydrocarbon Oil Found
October 28, 2011 | 6 Comments
A University of Maine engineer and his research team have discovered a revolutionary new chemical process can transform forest residues, along with other materials such as municipal solid waste, grasses, and construction wastes into hydrocarbon fuel oil products. Shortening up the process from biomass to hydrocarbons has long been an idea of intense interest, and […]
Oct
17
Where More Biofuel Crops Can Be Grown
October 17, 2011 | 1 Comment
Matt Johnston, from the University of Minnesota and his colleagues have produced a global map that identifies areas of low-yielding biofuel crops whose productivity could be increased through intensification opening a new set of questions and issues. The map shows that there is huge potential for increasing biofuel production without increasing its area footprint. However, […]
Sep
29
A New Synthetic Diesel Fuel
September 29, 2011 | 4 Comments
From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory comes the announcement that researchers with the U.S Department of Energy (DOE)’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have identified a potential new advanced biofuel that could replace today’s standard fuel for diesel engines. It would be clean, green, renewable and produced in the U.S. JBEI research team used synthetic biology tools […]
Mar
31
Using Protein and Bacteria to Make Renewable Petroleum
March 31, 2011 | 1 Comment
University of Minnesota researchers, with a breakthrough from graduate student Janice Frias of figuring out how to use a protein to transform fatty acids produced by bacteria into ketones that can be cracked to make hydrocarbon fuels has the university filing patents on the process. The ink is barely dry. U of M researchers have […]
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