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Global CNG Vehicles Market Research Report: Adoption of Clean Technology Could Expand CNG Vehicles Industry Size by 2025

The consistent rise in prices of conventional fuels is likely to create incremental opportunities for manufacturers of CNG vehicles over the forecast year.

4 Apr 2019

Study Shows Plant-Based Bio-Jet Fuels Could Provide a Competitive Alternative to Conventional Petroleum Fuels

The global aviation industry is known to require an estimated daily fuel of over five million barrels per day. As a result, this industry is remarkably energy-intensive and almost fully dependent on petroleum-based fuels.

20 Mar 2019

Researchers Identify New Mechanism to Convert Cellulose Efficiently and Environmentally Friendly

Renewable sources have to be used efficiently in order to fulfill the growing demand for feedstock chemicals and energy in the future. However, this aspect is considered to be one of the biggest global challenges.

15 Mar 2019

Measuring Real Corrosion Potential of Fuel Ethanol

Excessive acidity in alcohol based fuels accelerates engine corrosion.

From Metrohm USA Inc. 15 Mar 2019

Converting Cocoa Bean Waste into Bio-Fuel for West African Villages

African farming communities presently with little or no access to grid power may stand a chance to profit from a new green technology that can produce electricity from unwanted cocoa pod husks.

7 Mar 2019

Researchers Develop a Fast Technique to Convert Algae into Biocrude

Biofuel experts have spent quite some time in trying to discover a more economically feasible way to convert algae into biocrude oil in order to power ships, vehicles, and also jets. Researchers from the University of Utah now believe that they have finally arrived at an answer.

5 Mar 2019

A New Cash Flow to Local Farmers

Local farmers’ ability to sell biomass to Iggesund Paperboard’s paperboard mill at Workington will return over 1.5 million pounds annually to the local agricultural industry. The initiative has created a totally new source of income for close to 200 farms in Cumbria and Scotland.

From Holmen AB 5 Mar 2019

Food Industry Waste Can be Profitable for Biogas Production

The waste produced by the food industry can provide significant benefits, especially in the production of biogas, regardless of whether the biogas is utilized in vehicles or used for generating heat and electricity.

22 Feb 2019

Large UK Biogas Plant Order for WELTEC BIOPOWER

In winter 2019, the German biogas plant manufacturer WELTEC BIOPOWER has started building a biomethane plant near Pontefract, West Yorkshire, UK. The client is Lanes Farm Energy, a gas-to-grid project developed by Aqua Consultants.

From WELTEC BIOPOWER GmbH 21 Feb 2019

New Microfluidic Process Identifies Electricity-Producing Bacteria that Could be Used in Environmental Cleanup, Power Generation

Creative adaptations are needed to live in adverse conditions. In this context, certain bacterial species existing in oxygen-deprived environments have to find a way to breathe that does not involve oxygen.

14 Jan 2019