On the road to a more efficient biofuel cell
In Germany, researchers combined two concepts that make the biofuel cell system as efficient as noble metal catalysts. The team combined a bioanode with...
Biomass-powered power plants offline for months
In Maine, Stored Solar LLC’s two wood-fired power plants, which received a $1.2 million state subsidy intended to keep them operating, were essentially offline...
Mahoney Environmental Acquires Green Oil
In Illinois, Mahoney Environmental, a recycler of used cooking oil, purchased Green Oil, LLC dba Green Dining, a used oil recycling and grease trap...
Global Bioenergies successfully moves its C3 process to Demo scale
In France, Global Bioenergies reached a new milestone in scaling up its C3 process converting renewable resources into isopropanol and acetone. These two biobased...
Oil and gas giant YPF to start producing biofuels
In Argentina, Miguel Gutiérrez, President of oil and gas company YPF, made a big announcement this week that YPF will start producing biofuels. “The...
Eni and Veritas turn trash to treasure with new bioeconomy agreement
In Italy, Eni and Veritas, a multiutility that collects, recycles and treats waste in the 51 Municipalities of the metropolitan area of Venice, signed...
Vertoro creating green gold from paper pulp
In the Netherlands, Vertoro, Spanish for “Green Gold” is turning lignin into crude lignin oil, or CLO which is similar to fossil crude oil....
From chicken fat to biodiesel, thanks to nanocatalysis-based synthesis
In Iran, researchers from the Islamic Azad University of Bushehr used nano-calcium oxide catalyst to produce biodiesel from chicken fat, making it a low...
BURN awarded Bloomberg New Energy Pioneers Award for clean cookstoves
In Kenya, BURN Manufacturing, makers of the Jikokoa and Kuniokoa cookstoves that run on biomass, were awarded this year’s Bloomberg New Energy Pioneers Award....
Wood awarded contract to expand world’s largest dissolving pulp mill
In the United Kingdom, Wood was awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management contract by Sappi Limited, a global producer of dissolving wood pulp,...