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DOE Announces Upcoming International Energy Agency Webinar On Climate Impacts Of Bioenergy
On April 21, 2016, DOE and IEA Bioenergy (IEA) presented a webinar, Bioenergy - Is It Good for the Climate?, which discussed the climate benefits of bioenergy and the impact of bioenergy on atmospheric CO2 levels. The webinar featured Annett Cowie, principal Research Scientist in New South Wales' Department of Primary Industries, and Task Leader of the International Energy Agency Bioenergy ...
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$30 Million Juices Startup of Bioenergy Research Centers
WASHINGTON, DC, October 1, 2007 (ENS) - The startup of three new bioenergy research centers got a financial boost today with the U.S. Department of Energy's investment of nearly $30 million in end of fiscal year 2007 funds. The fiscal year ended September 30. The three centers selected by DOE this June are located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Madison, Wisconsin; and near Berkeley, California. They ...
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Department of Energy Provides $40 Million for 4 DOE Bioenergy Research Centers
U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry recently (7/17) announced $40 million in Department of Energy awards for the establishment of four DOE Bioenergy Research Centers (BRCs), which will provide the scientific breakthroughs for a new generation of sustainable, cost-effective bioproducts and bioenergy. The centers each led by a DOE National Laboratory or a top university are designed to lay the ...
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ETA-Florence to coordinate communication strategy for IEA Bioenergy
ETA-Florence Renewable Energies has been selected by the IEA Bioenergy Technology Collaboration Programme (TCP), a global network that focuses on research and deployment of bioenergy, established by the International Energy Agency (IEA), to deliver its communication activities. ETA-Florence is proud to collaborate with IEA Bioenergy to raise the profile of the bioenergy sector globally, by ...
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Nexterra signs Collaborative Bioenergy Research Agreement with the University of British Columbia
Nexterra Systems Corp. and the University of British Columbia announced today that they have signed a Collaborative Research Agreement to develop an advanced method of conditioning synthetic gas based on Nexterra's proprietary biomass gasification technology. Under the agreement, Nexterra and UBC will work together on a project to assess the potential for a new, lower cost catalytic process ...
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Turning Municipal Wastewater into Bioenergy
Cyanobacteria blooms have choked waterways throughout the world, from estuaries in Florida to the Mississippi River Basin to lakes in China. And, the toxins that cyanobacteria produce are harmful to humans, pets and wildlife alike. These photosynthetic organisms, also called blue-green algae, thrive on human sources of nitrogen and phosphorus, including effluent from waste treatment plants and ...
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Global Bioenergies and Synthos Enter a Strategic Partnership on Biological Butadiene, a $30bn Market
Synthos S.A. (PLDWORY00019 - WSE: SNS), a European leader in the manufacturing of rubber, and Global Bioenergies S.A. (FR0011052257 - NYSE Alternext : ALGBE), an industrial biology company developing sustainable routes to light olefins, today announce the signing of a partnership agreement to develop a new process for the conversion of renewable resources into butadiene, involving ...
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The concluding Conference to highlight the results of the French Biomass Project REGIX will take place at the 18th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition in Lyon
The summarizing and final conference of the French project REGIX (Unified references, methods and experiments to enable improved evaluation of potential agricultural and forestry lignocellulosic resources for bioenergy in France) will take place in Lyon, France, on the occasion of the 18th European Biomass Conference (3-7 May 2010) and Exhibition (3-6 May 2010). On May 4, 2010, representatives ...
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Berkeley Lab to build DOE advanced biofuels user facility
The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has been awarded nearly $18 million from the Recovery Act to build an advanced biofuels process development facility. Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) through its Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), this new facility will help expedite the commercialization of next generation biofuels by providing ...
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BESC creates microbe that bolsters isobutanol production
Another barrier to commercially viable biofuels from sources other than corn has fallen with the engineering of a microbe that improves isobutanol yields by a factor of 10. The finding of the Department of Energy’s BioEnergy Science Center, published in the journal Metabolic Engineering, builds on results from 2011 in which researchers reported on the first genetically engineered microbe ...
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Five final candidates for the World Bioenergy Award 2014
The five final candidates to the World Bioenergy Award 2014 are now chosen. One of them will be announced as the winner on June 3 at the opening session of World Bioenergy 2014 in Jönköping, Sweden. This is the third time that the World Bioenergy Award is presented. “These candidates really represents, the aim of the World Bioenergy Award, to recognize an individual who has made ...
By Elmia AB
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New fellows to help guide NREL research
The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) named Dr. Howard Branz and Dr. Michael Himmel to its Research Fellows Council, the Laboratory's top advisory council comprised of internationally recognized NREL scientists and engineers. Branz is a leader in silicon photovoltaics who produced a world record in nano-structured solar cells, and Himmel is a biochemist ...
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Fraunhofer IGB HPR-20 R&D Installation
A HPR-20 R&D with an all-metal variable leak valve inlet system was recently installed at the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology (IGB) in Stuttgart. In a research project within the Group of Algae Biotechnology Development, hydrogen is produced using the microalgae C. reinhardtii. The HPR-20 R&D is used to measure hydrogen and oxygen produced by the ...
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World Bioenergy Award boosts research in Brazil
The World Bioenergy Award has given a lift to the work of the Brazilian researcher Laércio Couto and his team in the Renabio network. “The award’s most important function is to disseminate research results around the world, even outside the circle of bioenergy researchers,” the prize winner says. “Other researchers have become interested in the subject, and the ...
By Elmia AB
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BESC, Mascoma develop Revolutionary Microbe for Biofuel Production
Biofuels pioneer Mascoma LLC and the Department of Energy's BioEnergy Science Center have developed a revolutionary strain of yeast that could help significantly accelerate the development of biofuels from nonfood plant matter. The approach could provide a pathway to eventual expansion of biofuels production beyond the current output limited to ethanol derived from corn. C5 FUEL™, ...
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Fuels from biomass: New technique can fast-track better ionic liquids for biomass pre-treatments
They’ve been dubbed “grassoline” - second generation biofuels made from inedible plant material, including fast-growing weeds, agricultural waste, sawdust, etc. - and numerous scientific studies have shown them to be prime candidates for replacing gasoline to meet our transportation needs. However, before we can begin to roll down the highways on sustainable, carbon-neutral grassoline, numerous ...
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Study Finds Algae Growth, Harvesting Are Root of Energy ROI
A study recently published by researchers at the University of Texas, Austin asserts that the crux of algae's case as an economically feasible oil feedstock and energy source rests not in its processing but in the ability to affordably grow and harvest it. The study, titled "Energy Return on Energy Investment for Algal Biocrude: Results for a Research Production Facility," was funded by algae ...
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2011 BIO International Convention to Highlight Next-Generation of Biofuel Innovation
Technology’s role in the production of biofuels is key to creating a large scale, sustainable alternative fuels industry and will be discussed at the 2011 BIO International Convention. The Convention will feature a series of high-level panels examining the spectrum of biotechnology advancements. These sessions will address pressing global industrial and environmental issues from the ...
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NREL names new executives to lead Bioenergy, Bioscience and Energy Systems integration facility
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recently made three key hires to lead research centers. NREL has named Tom Foust, a nine-year NREL veteran, as its National Bioenergy Center Director; David Post as the Center Director for the Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF); and Rich Greene as Biosciences Center Director. Tom Foust to Head National ...
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Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Developed Technology That Can Convert Human Waste Into Sustainable Biofuel
December 2, 2016 -- Last night's dinner could be tomorrow's liquid fuel. Yes, the technology to turn ordinary human waste into biocrude oil is here, thanks to developments at the Department of Energy'sPacific Northwest National Laboratory. The technology -- called hydrothermal liquefaction -- mimics the geological conditions the Earth uses to create crude oil by using high pressure and ...
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