Western Biofuels introduces new process

Western Biofuels Inc. released the results of an independent validation test and announced plans to build a 1.4 MMgy demonstration plant for a new biofuel process. Fuel chemist Nicholas Irving, ...

BP/DuPont’s biobutanol runs over a million miles

The partnership between BP and DuPont to accelerate its next generation clean renewable fuels has successfully tested biobutanol over 1.5 million miles in an ordinary car. Typical blends of around 16% ...

Wales to study biofuel from grass

Scientists in Wales are looking into a research project aiming to turn grass into a green transport fuel. The highly innovative £1 million (€1.16 million) ‘grassohol’ research project aims to develop ...

Novozymes forecast Brazilian bagasse boom

Industrial enzymes maker Novozymes has reported that Brazil could produce up to 8 billion litres of biofuel from sugarcane residues (bagasse) by 2020, representing additional export revenue for Brazil of ...

Brazil ethanol pipeline projects may join forces

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Operators of three, separate billion-dollar Brazilian ethanol pipeline projects said on Tuesday they are open to coordinating efforts to bring the biofuel from new distant production ...

Lawmakers seek broader U.S. biomass-for-biofuel list

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Farm-state lawmakers on Wednesday asked the Obama administration to back a broader definition of biomass for use in renewable fuels, an issue entangled with congressional action on ...

1st Brazil-U.S. short course in biofuels offered

Just months ago a new network of researchers and institutions from Brazil and the U.S. was developed by the Brazil-U.S. Higher Education Council under the auspices of the U.S. State ...

Biodiesel terminal to open in Massachusetts

US-based Baystate Biofuels' terminal in North Andover, Massachusetts, is to come online next year and begin delivering a green energy, petroleum alternative to the region. The terminal will be the first ...

Pennsylvania Looks to Stimulus Money to Help Biofuels

Pennsylvania’s governor is looking to the federal government to help along his state’s biodiesel and alternative fuel vehicle industries. Governor Ed Rendell is asking the U.S. Department of Energy for $15 ...

Virgin Galactic to offer biofuel-powered spaceship

Virgin Galactic, a subsidiary of the Virgin Group, is constructing space ships that are designed to run in part on alternative fuels. Over the past few months, pilots have conducted several ...

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