In Israel, China’s Xinhua news agency reports that researchers at Ben-Gurion University have developed new technology that uses a thermal treatment based on supercritical water to produce gas from organic waste. Supercritical water can actively decompose organic matter while dissolving inorganic matter slightly. Wood waste and glycerin were used as feedstocks in the lab trials. […]
In Michigan, with support from the Michigan Soybean Promotion Committee, Dr. Jonathan Wenzel, assistant professor of Chemical Engineering at Kettering University, is attempting to speed up the process of making biodiesel – a renewable fuel that is made using predominantly soybean oil in the United States, but can be made from animal fats and other […]
This is the official Transformative Technologies 2014 nominee page for Edeniq, nominated in the “Transformative conversion technology (solid state or supercritical)” category for its Cellunator technology. Voting Rules All voting is exclusively via social media this year. To vote, simply click on the Tweet, Like or Share link in on this page. Each tweet, like or […]
This is the official Transformative Technologies 2014 nominee page for Proterro, nominated in the “Transformative conversion technology (solid state or supercritical)” category for its solid state industrial sugars production. Voting Rules All voting is exclusively via social media this year. To vote, simply click on the Tweet, Like or Share link in on this page. […]
This is the official Transformative Technologies 2014 nominee page for Renmatix, nominated in the “Transformative conversion technology (solid state or supercritical)” category for its Plantrose technology. Voting Rules All voting is exclusively via social media this year. To vote, simply click on the Tweet, Like or Share link in on this page. Each tweet, like or […]
PNNL develops a project that, using conditions usually found on the planet Venus, produces a continuous stream of drop-in advanced biofuels, from algae, with the potential for dramatically lowered costs. It’s another step forward in the subcritical temperature region — and may solve the algae dewatering and extraction problems forever. If Venus has not been […]
At the frontier of exotic temperature and pressures, even everyday materials like water begin to act strangely in ways that can drive energy transformation. New work in nanocatalysts may make those frontiers more accessible, and those energy systems more affordable. OK – try this one for size. Water ice that checks in at 1300 degrees […]
In the UK, a leading researcher at the University of York has developed a low-temperature microwave pyrolysis of biomass using supercritical carbon dioxide to produce wax products without solvents residues. It allows a more precise control over the heating process, and saves energy, too. An advantage of using the technology is also the quality of […]
Supercritical fluids have been part of the biofuels technology mix for a long time. we’ve seen them researched for producing algal biofuels without dewatering, as a superior corn oil extraction system. Back in 2008, a team from Saskachewan and India signed a research deal using supercritical CO2 to extract fermentable sugars from biomass. What is […]
By Sam A. Rushing, President, Advanced Cryogenics, Ltd. Special to The Digest Carbon dioxide is generally thought of by those who are not in the gases industries as either a greenhouse gas; and/or for use in beverage carbonation, and perhaps fire abatement. To those in the gases industries, carbon dioxide is known for much more; […]
