In South Korea, a research team at the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT), in collaboration with EN2CORE Technology Co., Ltd., has successfully demonstrated an integrated process that converts landfill gas generated from organic waste—such as food waste—into aviation fuel. Currently, the refining industry mainly produces SAF from used cooking oil. However, used cooking […]
In Illinois, plants grown for biofuel have the potential to power our travel industry, but an important fraction of their chemical power has remained stubbornly difficult to recover. New research from the DOE-funded Center for Advanced Biofuel and Bioproduct Innovation on the University of Illinois campus has demonstrated a way to preserve native lignin structure, […]
In Finland, Neste is supporting the advancement of catalysis research in Finland through new donations to three universities, reinforcing long-term academic expertise across complementary areas critical to future energy and materials innovation. The funding will support catalysis engineering at Åbo Akademi University, catalysis chemistry at the University of Eastern Finland, and catalysis modeling at the […]
In Canada, The University of Alberta is teaming up with the City of Edmonton and Diesel Tech Industries (DTI) to reduce carbon emissions from the city’s fleet of diesel-powered buses by integrating hydrogen fuel into combustion engines. If successful, the project will provide vehicle operators across Canada with a retrofit solution to immediately reduce their […]
In Brazil, new studies led by Embrapa Ambiente reinforce the scientific basis of the National Biofuels Policy (RenovaBio) and expand transparency on the carbon intensity of biofuels produced in the country. The articles, published in international open access journals, fill technical gaps and strengthen the global understanding of how Brazil calculates the carbon intensity of […]
In the UK, new study has shown for the first time that waste cardboard can be used as an effective source of biomass fuel for large scale power generation. Engineers from the University of Nottingham have provided the first comprehensive characterisation of cardboard as a potential fuel source and created a new method to assess […]
In China, scientists have unveiled a sunlight-powered catalyst that transforms methane—the main component of natural gas—directly into ethanol, a high-value liquid fuel and chemical feedstock. The new material, described today in Frontiers in Energy, achieves an apparent quantum efficiency of 9.4%, a record for photocatalytic methane-to-ethanol conversion, while operating under near-ambient conditions. The breakthrough centers […]
In Indonesia, IPB University Agricultural Machinery Engineering researcher has developed a renewable energy innovation based on local resources by utilizing nyamplung oil and biogas as fuel for agricultural machinery. This innovation is considered to have great potential to support energy independence in the national agricultural sector. The potential of nyamplung oil in Indonesia reaches around […]
In the UK, the Heriot-Watt University noted that hydrogen transport infrastructure is developing at half the pace of other clean technologies, creating a bottleneck that could put billions in clean energy investment at risk. A recent study from Edinburgh Business School at Heriot-Watt University found that while hydrogen production, storage and fuel cell technologies are […]
In Germany, researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have developed a method which gives access to the valuable raw materials formate and hydrogen from the waste product glycerol. Formates are the salts of formic acid and are widely used in the chemical industry, while hydrogen can serve, for example, as an energy carrier to […]
