Biofuels

$400 Billion US Farm Bill A Boon to Bioenergy Production

Tuesday, 18 December 2018 Dan McCue A $400 billion farm bill passed by the United States Congress last week is a boon to the bioenergy field, reauthorizing several longstanding programs and establishing an Interagency Biogas Opportunities ...

EPA’s 2019 Cellulosic Biofuel Volume Will Increase RNG Project Development According to RNG Coalition

Monday, 03 December 2018 REM On November 30, 2018, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finalized its volume requirements under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program for 2019 for cellulosic biofuel, biomass-based diesel, ...

Israeli Technology Used to Turn Human Waste Into Biofuel

Tuesday, 20 November 2018 REM A Ben-Gurion University pilot study has demonstrated that raw human excrement can potentially be converted to a safe, reusable fuel and a nutrient rich fertilizer, thus addressing two major worldwide ...

Valmet to Deliver BioTrac™ biomass Pretreatment System in Romania

Wednesday, 24 October 2018 REM

Finland’s Valmet has reached a deal with Swiss company, Clariant, to deliver a BioTrac biomass pretreatment system for Clariant’s sunliquid ^®cellulosic ethanol plant in Romania.

South Carolina's Green Energy Biofuel Awarded Project of the Year for Bringing New Plant to the State

Monday, 22 October 2018 Dan McCue Green Energy Biofuel has announced plans to locate a new recycling facility in Aiken County, South Carolina. The company’s $4.3 million capital investment is expected to create more than 40 jobs over ...

U of A Biologist Receives Grant to Improve Biofuel Production

Friday, 31 August 2018 REM A University of Arkansas biologist is developing methods that could make the production of biofuel — ethanol and diesel made from sources such as plant material — more efficient and environmentally ...

Rewofuel Biofuel Project Kicks Off in Sweden

Friday, 29 June 2018 Dan McCue Representatives from eleven European companies and universities gathered in the Swedish town of Örnsköldsvik, to kick-start the EU-funded project Rewofuel. The long-term aim is to lay the groundwork ...

Sweden

Advanced biofuels can be produced extremely efficiently claim Swedish researchers

Monday, 21 May 2018 Robin Whitlock Scientists from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden say that an array of new technological achievements via the widespread gasification of biomass has huge potential for the switch to renewable ...

Industrial Consortium Receives EU Funding for Biofuel Demonstration

Friday, 18 May 2018 Dan McCue Global Bioenergies will conduct a three-year project to demonstrate a new value chain combining its Isobutene process with technologies developed by Sekab and Neste Engineering Solutions. The aim is to ...

Colorado State University Biofuel Project Gets DOE Support

Thursday, 19 April 2018 REM

A Colorado State University project to grow and harvest ocean macroalgae for biofuel production has received support from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy