In New York state, Reportlinker.com announced a report titled “Global Biofuel Market Outlook to 2016 – Going Mainstream Through Government Support” which provides a comprehensive analysis of market size of the biofuel industry on the basis of regions such as Asia Pacific, Europe, North America and Central and South America, as well as market segmentation […]
In North Dakota, researchers at North Dakota State University are part of a consortium along with Plant Sensory Systems and the USDA who have received $1.8 million, three-year grant from the DOE to develop enhanced energy sugarbeets.
In Finland, national research center VTT says it has developed a more efficient way to produce polygloycolic acid from sugar that could be 20% to 30% stronger than PLA while withstanding temperatures up to 20 degrees hotter. The new plastic is expected to break down easier than PLA and should improve the quality of bio-based […]
In Canada, Methes Energies recently won the New Producer of the Year award from the Canadian Renewable Fuels Association for their work using their technology, available at the pipeline or full facility level, that enables a wide variety of feedstocks to be converted to biodiesel. Their Ontario facility has been recently commissioned for 13 mmgy […]
In Tennessee, a genetic engineering research effort led by a University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture plant scientist is among 66 award-winning projects selected by the U.S. Department of Energy as potentially transformational in its field. The DOE award is for just over $441,000 for one year. On November 28, DOE announced this award and […]
In Colorado, the DOE has awarded a $2 million grant to Colorado State University to develop a system that will allow plants currently unable to be genetically modified to be genetically modified for use as biofuel feedstock such as sorghum, which currently is difficult to use in biofuel production.
In Illinois, researchers at the University of Illinois have located a bacterium in a garbage dump that they believe can be used to break down both cellulose and hemicellulose. The researchers are very excited about the enzymes that this bacterium because it contains all of the proteins and enzymes needed to break down xylan, which […]
In Colorado, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the BioEnergy Science Center (BESC) combined different microscopic imaging methods to gain a greater understanding of the relationships between biomass cell wall structure and enzyme digestibility, a breakthrough that could lead to optimizing sugar yields and lowering the costs of […]
In New York, a $910,000 grant from the DOE was awarded to a Cornell research team working on an algae project aimed at redesigning a bioreactor that delivers light efficiently. The “optofluidic reactor” will deliver light to algae growing on low-cost sheets and then collect fuel through porous tubes; the reactor will be able to […]
In Washington, the USDA announced that scientists working as part of an international team have completed a shotgun sequencing of the wheat genome, a paper published in the journal Nature reported today. The achievement is expected to increase wheat yields, help feed the world and speed up development of wheat varieties with enhanced nutritional value. […]
