Tag: biomass
Ideal temperature for biofuel conversion is identified
Tweet In California, biofuels production from lignocellulosic biomass would benefit if carried out between 65 and 70 degrees, as researchers at the Energy Biosciences Institute have improved the thermal stability of trichoderma reesei EGI around that temperature. Using their technique, they engineered an enzyme variant with greater activity and stability, a process called “B-factor guided [...]
New report explores challenges in sustainability certification
Tweet In the Netherlands, a report detailing a lunch held during World Biofuels Markets exploring challenges in the field of sustainable biomass and certification identified in pilot projects conducted by the organizers and funded by Dutch NL Agency, The report looks at the need to: Improve social and environmental impacts; improve smallholder opportunities; improve monitoring [...]
Save $270M! (and Make Biofuels Feedstocks, er, Feasible, er, Now)
Tweet Is there bio-based relief for the harried taxpayer in sight? Could conservationists, growers and biofuels producers find common ground in adapting the Conservation Reserve Program for bioenergy? Could the US save $270M/year, and strengthen two carbon-reducing laws on the books? The eminent Iowa State economist Bruce Babcock recently opined: “The future of cellulosic biofuels [...]
Renewable Energy Association fires back at green groups pushing for subsidy cuts
Tweet In the UK, concerns that subsidies for renewable electricity from biomass could cause a six-fold surge in demand for the UK’s forestry products have lead RSPB, Friends of the Earth, and Greenpeace to send a letter to The Times condemning the use of biomass in energy. The Renewable Energy Association fired back, releasing a [...]
The Promiscuous, the Selective, and Biofuels
Tweet A new, potentially game-changing path to biofuels? And what exactly does promiscuity have to do with it? There’s been some potentially world-changing work going on of late at the University of Wisconsin, the University of Guelph and Los Alamos National Laboratory that it’s time for you to know about. And if phrases like “enantioselectivity” [...]
CPF, Indian food giant, to launch six biomass plants this year
Tweet In India, food giant Charoen Pokphand Goods (CPF) will launch six biomass plants, three cogeneration plants, and a biodiesel plant this year in an effort to cut their use of fossil fuel energy by 20% each year. The plants will use waste from chicken, pig, and shrimp operations, and are expected to cut carbon-dioxide [...]
KSU researcher developing better biomass refining for drop-ins
Tweet In Kansas, Praveen Vadlani, the Gary and Betty Lortscher associate professor of renewable energy in Kansas State University’s department of grain science and industry, is a co-principal investigator in a more than $6.5 million biomass research project between universities, industries and federal agencies. The three-year project, a jointly funded effort by the U.S. Department [...]
“Governments must offer incentives to drive a switch to biofuels and other renewables.”
Tweet Today on Twitter: FACTSreports: Build a biomass energy market : Governments must offer incentives to drive a switch to biofuels and other renewables lowestcostheat: Back-to-Basics Biofuels – Small- and medium-scale biofuel distillation equipment… mongabay: Palm oil, paper, biofuels production on peatlands drive large GHG emissions – rsquared2121: @sanjaygupta Gratifying to see high profile peeps [...]
A National Biomass Lend-Lease project
Tweet The military would like, affordable, domestically-produced, drop-in, renewable fuels. Drop-in fuel producers would like long-term, stable fuel sale and feedstock purchase contracts. Why not put those needs together? According to a Defense Department report, the US Navy will need 336 million gallons of renewable fuel by 2018 to meet its Green Fleet goals. Let’s [...]
