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Chinese scientists develop new biodiesel fuel production tech

Chinese scientists develop new biodiesel fuel production tech

January 7, 2024 |

In China, Macau Business reported that Chinese scientists have developed new technology allowing the manufacture of biodiesel fuel with higher biomass content, which could reach over 40% compared with the global average content of less than 10% Shen Jian, a professor at Nanjing Normal University’s School of Chemistry and Materials Science, and his team improved […]

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Badass POP missile fuel arrives from Berkeley’s labs: Will America keep a hold of them?

Badass POP missile fuel arrives from Berkeley’s labs: Will America keep a hold of them?

July 11, 2022 |

News has arrived out of Berkeley of an advanced biofuel so powerful and transformative that we suspect it may never reach consumer markets. These are POP fuels, and you can’t have them. Simulation data from Sandia suggests “that POP fuel candidates are safe and stable at room temperature and will have energy density values of […]

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Mexican researchers convert wild castor seeds into biodiesel

Mexican researchers convert wild castor seeds into biodiesel

March 15, 2022 |

In Mexico, the seeds of the wild castor oil plant, Ricinus communis, can be converted into biodiesel according to a new study in the International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology. The Mexican research team shows how the requisite transesterification reaction of oil from the seeds using methanol in the presence of sodium hydroxide […]

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Lincolnland Agri-Energy researcher uses pumice for biodiesel production process

Lincolnland Agri-Energy researcher uses pumice for biodiesel production process

January 25, 2022 |

In Spain, Canarias 7 reports a researcher at the University of La Laguna (ULL) has invented a utility model on a catalyst to produce biodiesel, which has been accredited by the Patent and Trademark Office and in which pumice, a volcanic material, is used as a support. abundant and inexpensive. The invention refers specifically to […]

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Fueling biodiesel adoption – Sulzer Chemtech’s tech helps vegetable oil producer enter biofuel market

Fueling biodiesel adoption – Sulzer Chemtech’s tech helps vegetable oil producer enter biofuel market

November 2, 2021 |

By Sulzer Chemtech Special to The Digest Businesses interested in producing biodiesel need advanced processing solutions that can achieve high purity levels while maximizing the recovery of this fuel. When Bremfield Sdn Bhd, a leading Malaysian vegetable oil processor, was looking to add biodiesel to its product portfolio, Sulzer Chemtech’s distillation technology offered an effective […]

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Tech, feedstock winners still to be declared as biofuels sector develops

Tech, feedstock winners still to be declared as biofuels sector develops

August 10, 2021 |

By Tom Brown, Chief News Correspondent, ICIS Special to The Digest It seems beyond question at this point in the market’s development that biofuels will be a significant factor in the evolution of the transportation and petrochemical sectors, but the space remains in flux, with the winners and losers yet to be declared. Materials such […]

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Battle Of The Biofuels: Renewable Diesel vs. Biodiesel

Battle Of The Biofuels: Renewable Diesel vs. Biodiesel

August 9, 2021 |

By Patrick O’Brien, Summer Intern, Opportune LLP Special to The Digest Find out why knowing the difference between renewable diesel and biodiesel can go a long way in understanding the benefits of each. Fuel standards programs such as the federal Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS-2) and California’s Low-Carbon Fuels Standard (LCFS) have incentivized fuel producers to […]

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These Metal-Based Catalysts Can Boost Biofuel Yields

These Metal-Based Catalysts Can Boost Biofuel Yields

December 23, 2020 |

By Mike Timko, associate professor of chemical engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute Special to The Digest A recent study led by a team from Worcester Polytechnic Institute shows that metal-oxide-based catalysts reduce char build up during biofuel conversion processes, increasing bio-crude oil yield and decreasing yields of low-value byproducts. Have you ever wondered what happens […]

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Nigerian researchers develop new nano-catalyst technology for UCO biodiesel production

Nigerian researchers develop new nano-catalyst technology for UCO biodiesel production

August 6, 2020 |

In Nigeria, researchers at the University of Ilorin have developed a biodiesel production process from used cooking oil using waste-iron-filling as the building blocks for a nano-catalyst. Scientists used UCO containing 6.1% free fatty acid as feedstock for the trials. The catalysts showed the effectiveness and relative stability for UCO transesterification over three cycles, demonstrating […]

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Biodiesel made from food waste and lithium battery waste

Biodiesel made from food waste and lithium battery waste

July 26, 2020 |

In Brazil, scientists from the Federal University of Espírito Santo produced biodiesels using an innovative source of catalysts, a mixture of metal hydroxides: lithium-sodium (LiOH + NaOH) or lithium-potassium (LiOH + KOH) and waste cooking oil from fast food chains and households as the oily raw feedstock. They used the lithium waste due to the […]

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