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Researchers Develop Catalyst to Recycle Waste and Increase Biodiesel Production

Researchers at Cardiff University have devised a way of increasing the yield of biodiesel by using the waste left over from its production process.

15 Sep 2015

Quest for Alternative Energy Points Towards Ocean Coral Reefs

A tropical paradise on the surface, the coral reefs under the tiny island nation’s azure waves are actually a laboratory unlike anywhere else on the planet. The seemingly placid environment features some truly extreme conditions—an evolutionary crucible that has produced creatures with traits that rival the best of human ingenuity. Sweeney’s job is to understand how they got that way and why.

14 Sep 2015

EMSL User Program Projects Aim to Create Sustainable Carbon Sources from Biomass

Carbon is money. Nowhere is this more evident than in our dependence on hydrocarbons in the form of fossil fuels. Scientists and engineers have been grappling with the question of what alternate carbon sources are available when our demand for fossil fuels eventually outstrips our supply. This challenge has provided motivation to use expertise and equipment available at EMSL, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, to create technologies that use sustainable carbon sources from biomass.

11 Sep 2015

Simple Technique to Treat Waste Coffee Grounds to Enable Methane Storage

Scientists have developed a simple process to treat waste coffee grounds to allow them to store methane. The simple soak and heating process develops a carbon capture material with the additional environmental benefits of recycling a waste product.

2 Sep 2015

Grant Awarded to WSU Tri-Cities Professor for Studying Biomass-Derived Catalysts for Generating High-Energy Biofuels

Hanwu Lei, Washington State University Tri-Cities associate professor in biological systems engineering, was awarded a $494,000 grant this fall to research catalysts, which will be used to increase the energy output and performance of biofuels.

2 Sep 2015

Renewable Fuel Standard Program Helps Reduce US Carbon Emissions Over a Decade

Over its 10-year lifespan, the Renewable Fuel Standard’s (RFS) requirement to substitute biofuels for fossil fuels has displaced nearly 1.9 billion barrels of foreign oil and reduced U.S. transportation-related carbon emissions by 589.33 million metric tons, the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) finds in an analysis released today.

25 Aug 2015

Competitive Biofuel from Wine-Making Waste

The solid waste left over from wine-making could make a competitive biofuel, University of Adelaide researchers have found.

24 Aug 2015

New Tungstoenzyme Holds Promise for Cellulosic Biofuels

Tungsten is exceptionally rare in biological systems. Thus, it came as a huge surprise to Michael Adams, PhD., and his collaborators when they discovered it in what appeared to be a novel enzyme in the hot spring-inhabiting bacterium, Caldicellulosiruptor bescii.

17 Aug 2015

First Genetically Engineered Microbe Improves Isobutanol Yield from Cellulose by a Factor of 10

Another barrier to commercially viable biofuels from sources other than corn has fallen with the engineering of a microbe that improves isobutanol yields by a factor of 10.

17 Aug 2015

Kansas State University Biochemistry Professor Reaches Milestone in Building Better Biofuel

A Kansas State University biochemistry professor has reached a milestone in building a better biofuel: producing high levels of lipids with modified properties in oil seeds.

14 Aug 2015