In Missouri, a $200,000 grant has opened up a new biofuel research field in Southeastern Missouri designed to test soybeans and sweet sorghum. The grant, coming foam the Delta Regional Authority, the Missouri Research Corp., and the Missouri Department of Agriculture, is sponsoring Southeast Missouri State University as it pioneers the 10-acre test plot to […]
In Canada, Lakehead University professor Pedram Fatehi has received a grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council in support of his process to produce biofuels from pulp paper waste. “We’re are not utilizing (that resource)î he says. ìWe are wasting it.” He recently received $120,000 from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council […]
In Canada, a professor from Lakehead University has won a five-year grant for $120,000 from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council to develop biofuels out of liquid waste produced by pulp mills.
In Florida, BP is testing two advanced biofuels that could be commercially available by 2014. The company is planting energy grasses to feed a 36 million gallon-a-year cellulosic ethanol plant planned in Florida. The BP/DuPont joint venture (Butamax) biobutanol technology demonstration plant in Hull (England) is already operational and has produced biobutanol for some of […]
In Kansas, a University of Kansas researcher has developed a method to produce algae for biodiesel production using nitrogen– and phosphorus-laden wastewater. She has won this year’s Excellence in Environmental Engineering Award from the Academy of Environmental Engineers for her work.
In Michigan, a biofuel production process with a yield 20 times higher than current processes was discovered by a Michigan State microbiologist. Dr. Gemma Reguera’s process uses a second bacterium in the breakdown process, which removes the nonethanol materials while generating electricity. The process averaged 35 to 40% energy recovery from the fermentation process using […]
In Washington, the National Science Foundation has awarded a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase I grant to Protabit, LLC, a Pasadena-based spin-off of the California Institute of Technology. The grant will be used to engineer cellulase enzymes for production of biofuels from non-edible corn stover biomass. Protabit is the developer of Triad, a computational […]
In Spain, the National Renewable Energy Center of Spain has chosen Ohio-based AdvanceBio Systems’ SuPR2G Bench Scale Pretreatment Reactor for its new second-generation ethanol research facility in Navarra.
In the UK, researchers have created OPEC, for Orange Peel Exploitation Company, to explore options for using citrus peels as feedstock for biofuels and bio-based chemicals, and have teamed with the University of York, the University of Sao Paulo and the University of Cordoba to test a model bio-refinery. About 15.6 million tons of citrus […]
In North Carolina, a new study indicates that indirect land use change is not statistically correlated with high crop prices, at least to the degree that many models predict. The study, conducted by researchers at North Carolina State University and the University of Illinois at Chicago found that as prices increase on crops, farmers make […]
