Mar
25
Fruit Trees For Fuel
March 25, 2013 | 1 Comment
Fast growing trees, especially the poplars are being studied as they produce a large body of biomass per area. Poplars and willows are leading candidates as biofuel crops that are expected to produce cellulosic ethanol and higher energy content fuels when the sugars can be efficiently extracted. We non-tree experts are going to be surprised […]
Mar
22
Progress With a New Idea on Getting the Sugar From Biomass
March 22, 2013 | 1 Comment
Ionic liquids are the current leading edge of research to get the tough to get sugars from cellulosic and lignin tissues of plants. News has broken via a prepublication release of a paper from a team at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI). The JBEI team at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has developed a novel […]
Mar
6
New Catalyst For Synthetic Fuels From Biomass
March 6, 2013 | 2 Comments
The Van’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) has sent out their press release announcing the discovery and design of a catalyst to build synthetic fuels from natural gas and biomass using the Fischer-Tropsch process. The catalyst has already been patented by the Total S.A. oil and gas company. This […]
Feb
8
A New Bio Oil Production Process Breakthrough
February 8, 2013 | 3 Comments
Researchers at Aarhus and Aalborg University in cooperation with the firm Steeper Energy Ltd. have developed a new and innovative process that can efficiently convert “all kinds” of biomass to bio-crude oil. Called HydroThermal Liquefaction (HTL), the process product is sufficiently similar to fossil crude oil that a simple thermal upgrade and existing refinery technology […]
Nov
23
The Algae That Eats Other Plants
November 23, 2012 | 1 Comment
A research team at Bielefeld University has made a groundbreaking discovery that one plant, the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, not only engages in photosynthesis, but also has an alternative source of energy: it can draw it out from other plants. Plants need water and light to grow using sunlight energy to produce their biomass from […]
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