waste-to-biofuel Articles
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Bioproducts to enable biofuels workshop announced
On July 9, 2015, the DOE announced a public workshop to collect information about challenges that occur during coproduction of biobased chemicals, products, and biofuels. The Bioproducts to Enable Biofuels Workshop was organized by the Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) and will cover the following topics: Identifying and evaluating economic drivers for producing bioproducts. Identifying ...
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Novozymes CEO Peder Holk Nielsen Discusses Growth In Biofuel Industry
On September 7, 2015, Clean Technica published a conversation with Novozymes CEO Peder Holk Nielsen about opportunities for growth coming from the upcoming COP 21 Paris climate talks. Nielsen expressed a desire for a form of taxation or limits on carbon emissions to be put in place over the next 10 or 15 years. In the future, Nielsen sees biofuel production becoming more sustainable as people ...
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Economic evaluation and environmental benefits of biofuel: an Indian perspective
Biomass based fuel technologies are rapidly developing and the barriers in implementing such technologies are being identified to achieve their widespread commercialisation. The two most common biofuels are biodiesel and bioethanol. About 500 million litres of ethanol is required in India itself for 10% blending to gasoline. Indian Planning Commission sees tremendous potential in Jatropha curcus ...
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Fuel Production
In the processing of regenerative energy carriers like biofuel, wood, waste fraction with high heat value, or animal meal to synthetic gas, the carbon dioxide has to be removed. The gas is forwarded by a compressor to an absorption cell, where it flows up through a support medium aggregate. This aggregate is being sprayed from above with water that is conveyed by a micro air bubble generator. ...
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Converting plant waste into biofuels
Promising advances using yeast and fungi. Written by Nancy W. Stauffer. You can read the original story in MIT News MIT researchers are genetically engineering yeast to break down stubborn plant fibers into sugars that it can then ferment — a first step toward a potentially cost-effective single-organism process for manufacturing cellulosic biofuels. The source of the genetic material: ...
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Preliminary studies of lignocellulosics and waste fuels for fixed bed gasification
This study was carried out to understand the decomposition behaviour of a range of biofuel and waste feedstock during gasification in a downdraft gasifier. A laboratory scale large sample thermogravimetric analyser (LSTA) is used which allows the data on burn-out characteristics of different fuel particles to be measured under agitated conditions. The conditions chosen simulate the combustion ...
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The New Creed of Greed: Going Green is Good, but also Wrought with Near Term Risk
“I am not a destroyer of companies.I am a liberator of them!”Quote by Gordon Gekko, played by Michael Douglass in the 1987 movie Wall Street INTRODUCTIONThe Greed for Green: Whether it’s Greener Homes, Cars, Computers or Investments, It’s all about Money! Money! Money! Was Gordon Gekko Right 20 Years Ago? Some people don’t like to talk money. It’s pretentious, personal, and impolite. ...
By AHC Group
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The performance and emission characteristics of a diesel engine using preheated Kusum oil and Kusum diesel blend
Rapidly depleting conventional petroleum resources have prompted research for alternative fuels. Among various possible options for internal combustion engines, fuels derived from triglycerides (vegetable oils/animal fats) are a promising substitute for diesel fuel. Vegetable oils pose some detrimental characteristics like high viscosity and low volatility compared to diesel fuel. In the present ...
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Amit Kumar and Gregory Stephanopoulos on turning waste gases into biofuels
Research conducted by Kumar, along with a team led by Professor Greg Stephanopoulos, looks to the future of emissions reduction and recycling. Original story at MIT News One of the most promising ways to combat carbon emissions is to transform those emissions into something useful. Recently, Gregory Stephanopoulos, the Willard Henry Dow Professor in Chemical Engineering at MIT; postdoc Amit ...
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DOE presents Bioenergy 2015 next week in Washington, D.C.
It is not too late to register for Bioenergy 2015, hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) and the Clean Energy Research and Education Foundation (CEREF), and taking place at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. on June 23–24, 2015. Speakers include Jonathan Male, Director, BETO; Franklin (Lynn) Orr, Under Secretary for ...
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The UK lags behind EU counterparts to achieve 20% renewable energy target
While some countries have almost hit their targets the UK still has a long way to achieve its 15% renewable energy target by 2020. The EU is more than halfway to reaching its 20% target of generating energy from renewables by 2020, according to new figures published today by Eurostat. The EU's 2009 directive on renewable energy set individual targets for all 27 member states, with a goal for the ...
By Vital Energi
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Can low oil prices be good for the environment?
Deepwater drilling rigs are sitting idle. Fracking plans are being scaled back. Enormous new projects to squeeze oil out of the tar sands of Canada are being shelved. Maybe low oil prices aren't so bad for the environment after all. The global price of oil has plummeted 31 percent in just five months, a steep and surprising drop after a four-year period of prices near or above $100 a barrel. ...
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Studying The Use Of Biomass Pellet Machines
Are you attempting to decide regardless of whether you would want to invest in a biomass pellet machine? If you're unclear that the purchase this way is right for you, you should consider the effective use of biomass pellet machines. Once you discover how this equipment is used, you can decide regardless of whether you'd prefer to acquire one yourself. They Produce Wood Pellets Just about the ...
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Why airlines keep pushing biofuels: They have no choice
The number of global fliers is expected to more than double in the next two decades. In order to carry all those extra passengers, airlines are turning to a technology very few can make work on a large scale: converting trash into fuel. They have no other choice. As people in countries such as China, India and Indonesia get wealthier they are increasingly turning to air travel for vacation or ...
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Producing fuels from waste: giving plastic waste a new life
There is a valorization process very much in demand nowadays, and that is waste-to-fuel. Waste-to-fuel is the transformation of waste into fuel, by means of pyrolysis. Pyrolysis is a common technique, designed for the thermal processing of waste to generate a usable by-product. The pyrolysis equipment consists typically of an externally-heated rotary kiln operated in the absence of oxygen. ...
By TECAM
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Peristaltic Pumps excel in Anaerobic Digestion & Biogas applications
Biogas is a natural gas also known as biofuel or biomass and is produced by breaking down organic material such as household waste, manure and crops grown specifically for biofuel with temperature-sensitive microbes and capturing the by-products. In practice, it is difficult to find a pumping system for this application. Why? The pumps needs to handle fluid media as well as gas parts The ...
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Avoided global warming emissions with the adoption of biofuel policies in Spain
The objective of this study is to assess the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions in the production and use of biofuels in Spain considering different crop production alternatives, including the possible import of raw materials. Avoided GHG emissions due to the substitution of conventional transport fuels with biofuels are then quantified. The studied biofuels are bioethanol from cereal crops and ...
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European Court Of Auditors Releases Report On EU Biofuel Sustainability Certifications
On July 21, 2016, the European Court of Auditors released Special Report No 18/2016: The EU system for the certification of sustainable biofuels. This report assessed the existing biofuels sustainability certification framework of the European Commission (EC) and highlighted key issues with the system. Issues with the certification framework could undermine the European Union's (EU) 2020 goals ...
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Several Tips To Get A Pyrolysis Plant Cost Estimate
Before you invest in any industrial equipment, it is actually essential to determine precisely what the total cost is going to be. This could only be done by requesting these details from manufacturers that will sell this equipment to you. Whether this really is extracted from a location nearby, or from a totally different country, learning the initial value of these devices are so helpful. It ...
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Honduras: Generating bioenergy from polluting waste ...
The idea came up during the latest Expobioenergía Workshop The baselines of this idea were drawn up during the Expobioenergía 2010 Workshop, “at some stage of the tour we made of the various companies and projects we had the chance to visit during the event”, explains Julio César Lucas, a member of the Honduran firm Quimys’ Oil S. de R.L. Following its ...
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