In Virginia, researchers at Old Dominion University in Norfolk have demonstrated a small-scale production of a B10 blend from algae oil. The University plans to increase production scale by moving three tanks from ODU’s campus to the Hampton Roads Sanitation District plant.
The U.S. Department of Energy is resuming work on algae-based biodiesel. The National Bioenergy Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden is said to be nearing a cooperative research and development agreement.
Numerous algae ventures have been in the news lately, with ventures such as PetroSun, Solazyme, Vertigro and GreenFuel working on ventures which are primarily located in Arizona and Georgia. The Dutch firm Bioking will debut its algae-based biodiesel at the UK’s Biodiesel Expo on October 17-18.
In Virginia, researchers at the University of Virginia have commenced three projects to improve yields from algae-to-fuel production. The first project will test for optimal levels of solid waste an...
In Virginia, a project to produce biofuels from turkey and chicken waste enters the pilot phase. A demonstration farm in the Shenandoah will be the site for the test of a mobile poultry litter collect...
In Arizona, PetroSun BioFuels Refining will joint venture in the construction and operation of a 55 Mgy biofuels refinery in Arizona. PetroSun BioFuels will provide the algal oil feedstock, and the re...
In Virginia, Synergy Biofuels will invest $1 million in a waste vegetable oil biodiesel plant in Pennington Gap, and will commence operation in March 2008.
Although Virginia has received more publi...
In Utah, the Sundance Film festival, which screened Josh Tickell's documentary on renewable fuels, Fields of Fuel, was also host to a demonstration of algae-based biodiesel from Solazyme. The company ...
Top Story: Farmland prices are soaring in the Midwest as the effect of ethanol and biodiesel production is felt. In Illinois, farmland prices have risen an average of 60% in the past five years, while...
