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Keiron Durant Wins Two National Awards for Alternative Fuel Research

Keiron Durant, an honors chemical engineering senior, has won two national awards for his research on alternative fuels.

30 Oct 2013

Renewable Energy Group Opens Biodiesel Refinery in Mason City

Renewable Energy Group® held a ribbon cutting ceremony to formally open their recently acquired biodiesel refinery in Mason City, Iowa and announced it has begun a $20 million project to upgrade the plant to a multi-feedstock facility.

29 Oct 2013

Global Bioenergies Reaches Main Milestone in License Option with Major US Industrial Group

Global Bioenergies announces today having reached the main milestone in a license option signed in 2010 with a Fortune 500 US-based industrialist.

29 Oct 2013

Biofuels Produced from Genetically Modified Tobacco Plants

In her PhD thesis Ruth Sanz-Barrio, an agricultural engineer of the NUP/UPNA-Public University of Navarre and researcher at the Institute of Biotechnology (mixed centre of the CSIC-Spanish National Research Council, Public University of Navarre and the Government of Navarre), has demonstrated, for the first time, the viability of using specific tobacco proteins (known as thioredoxins) as biotechnological tools in plants.

16 Oct 2013

New Country Ranking Report on Advanced Biofuels

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Advanced Biofuels Country Rankings

16 Oct 2013

India, Australia Team Up to Produce Clean-burning Synthetic Fuel

The widespread introduction of a clean-burning synthetic fuel, dimethyl ether (DME), is a step closer following the announcement of a A$6 million partnership between CSIRO and its Indian equivalent, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).

11 Oct 2013

Unwanted Byproduct of Cellulosic Biofuel Increases Ethanol Yield

Scientists report in Nature Communications that they have engineered yeast to consume acetic acid, a previously unwanted byproduct of the process of converting plant leaves, stems and other tissues into biofuels. The innovation increases ethanol yield from lignocellulosic sources by about 10 percent.

9 Oct 2013

NextFuels Searches for Site in Southeast Asia to Produce Biofuels from Palm Plantation Residue

NextFuels, a pioneer in transforming agricultural residue into biofuels, is actively narrowing the search for a site for its initial pilot plant to Southeast Asia. The pilot plant will demonstrate how NextFuels can economically produce transportation and industrial fuels from wet, unprocessed agricultural waste from palm oil plantations.

8 Oct 2013

Highwater Ethanol, Butamax Retrofit Biobutanol Plant in Lamberton, Minnesota

Butamax™ Advanced Biofuels LLC, the leading biobutanol technology company, and Highwater Ethanol LLC, a leading producer of first generation ethanol, have begun to retrofit Highwater's ethanol plant in Lamberton, Minnesota for the production of biobutanol. Butamax's cutting edge technology package will include the installation of novel corn oil separation technology.

3 Oct 2013

Modern Gas Turbine Systems - New Publication on Fuel Flexible Power Generation

Modern gas turbine power plants represent one of the mostefficient and economic conventional power generation technologiessuitable for large-scale and smaller scale applications.

1 Oct 2013