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- Inventions, Research, Innovations, Breakthroughs
- Japanese find less expensive methid to produce Biodiesel
- Japanese scientists may have found a cheaper and more efficient way to
produce "biodiesel.".. Michikazu Hara, of the Tokyo Institute
of Technology in Yokohama, Japan, and his colleagues have used common, inexpensive
sugars to form a recyclable solid acid that does the job on the cheap.
Their research is reported in last week's issue of the journal Nature.
They estimate the cost of the catalyst to be one-tenth to one-fiftieth
that of conventional catalysts. Read more
from here & here
– Nov 2005
- Biodiesel Breakthrough – Value-added co-products can
improve the economics of Biodiesel, says this Biocap
Canada research brief (PDF)
- Green breakthrough for Biodiesel - A team based at the
University of Wisconsin, whose work is reported in the latest edition of
the journal Science, has devised an efficient catalytic reactor that
produces a diesel-like fuel from organic matter. June
2005 article from CNN
- Farmers using microtechnology to produce biodiesel -
Farmers are working with scientists from Oregon State University to make
biodiesel from their own soybean, canola, rape and mustard seed crops.
Using microtechnology, the scientists
have developed a new, faster way to create biodiesel. …a design
prototype, which is a plastic plate with 30 microreactor channels
running parallel to each other, each about the width of a human hair.
The entire plate can easily fit in the palm of a hand…Read more from Tree
Hugger, Feb 2006 article
- Peanut Biodiesel Promising but Costly Alternative Fuel -
Peanut oil produces approximately 123 gallons of biodiesel per acre,
compared to 50 gallons for soy oil. The problem is peanut oil on the
world market is more valuable than soy oil, making conversion to
biodiesel economically impractical. Tests are underway at the University
of Georgia to develop non-edible peanuts that are high in oil, and could
be grown specifically for bio-diesel production. These varieties are
higher in oil content than currently grown runner and Virginia type
varieties and would not compete on the world market with peanuts grown
for food and commercial cooking oil products. Read more from Renewable
Energy Access article, Nov 2006
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- Pioneering a New Generation of Biodiesel - Nestle Oil’s
new, proprietary NExBTL technology for producing biodiesel marks an
important step forward in efforts to meet the growing demand for this
type of fuel, as it offers not only valuable production-related
benefits, but also results in a fuel with excellent product properties,
particularly at low temperatures. Various companies have experimented
with the idea of combining a natural raw material with an oil refining
process to produce a biofuel capable of competing with hydrocarbon-based
equivalents, but with limited success – until NExBTL that is. Read more
from this June 2005 article
in Innovations Report
- Technology Breakthrough Enables Biodiesel Production
from Ethanol Plants - A new corn oil extraction technology is now
available to the ethanol industry, thanks to a recently developed
partnership between a group of ethanol producers and a technology firm.
Named SunSource BioEnergy, LLC, the team consists of VeraSun Energy,
Glacial Lakes Energy, KAAPA Ethanol, Golden Grain Energy and Ethanol Oil
Recovery Systems. The technology enables ethanol producers to extract
crude oil from the dry mill process. By extracting the oil, producers have
the opportunity to increase plant income and improve handling
characteristics of distillers dry grains. Read more from this June
2005 report in Grain Net
- U.S. engineers have found a way to improve ethanol
production. Carnegie Mellon University chemical engineers say they used
advanced process design methods combined with mathematical optimization
techniques to reduce the operating costs of corn-based bio-ethanol
plants by more than 60 percent. The technology involves redesigning the
distillation process by using a multicolumn system and a network for
energy recovery that ultimately reduces the consumption of steam, a
major energy component in the production of corn-based ethanol. Read
more from this Daily
India Jan 2007 report
- New Technology Makes Biofuel From Any Renewable Oil - Manufacturing.net,
Feb 2007 - Diversified Energy Corp., an alternative and renewable
energy company, announced a biofuels technology that produces high
performance fuels from any renewable oil. When compared to other biofuel
processes like biodiesel and ethanol, Centia is said to provide up to a
50 percent reduction in external energy required in the process. Centia
will initially being used to produce commercial and military jet fuel
and a cold-weather biodiesel additive.
- New antioxidant technology for biodiesel producers and
distributors introduced - Albemarle has launched a major program to
support the expanding market for biodiesel worldwide, with products
including an array of antioxidants to stabilize fuels and prevent
deposit formation in diesel engines. A leader in antioxidant technology
for fuels, lubricants and polymers, Albemarle now offers this emerging
industry a variety of blends and dilutions. Albemarle’s ETHANOX
biodiesel antioxidants can help producers control critical parameters of
their fuels, such as oxidative stability (EN 14112), acid number and
peroxide content, as well as decreased gum formation. Full report from
the Albemarle
company web site (PDF)
- Finding a better way to make biodiesel - A team of Iowa
State researchers have found a better way to make biodiesel in a
chemistry lab. Iowa State scientists say the tiny nanospheres they've
developed could revolutionize how biodiesel is produced. The researchers
are after a new, high-tech catalyst that takes some of the energy, labor
and toxic chemicals out of biodiesel production. They've come up with a
technology that works in the laboratory. Current biodiesel production
technology reacts soy oil with methanol using toxic, corrosive and
flammable sodium methoxide as a catalyst. It's a tedious process. The
team has developed a nanotechnology that using tiny, uniformly
shaped silica particles shows promise for improving the efficiency of
biodiesel production. But he said it still needs to be tested at larger
and larger scales to see if the economic benefits are there. Read more
from this Eureka
Alert report, Jun 2006
- Green breakthrough for 'biodiesel' - June, 2005 - A new
method has the potential to produce the fuel more efficiently. A team
based at the University of Wisconsin, whose work is reported in the
latest edition of the journal Science, has devised an efficient
catalytic reactor that produces a diesel-like fuel from organic matter.
If the process can be repeated on an industrial scale, it could provide
a clean-burning liquid alternative for millions of motorists. The
four-stage catalytic process transforms sugars derived from biomass into
alkanes that have almost the exact chemical structure as traditionally
produced biofuel. Read more from this CNN
June 2005 report
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- Biodiesel Powers Wireless India - GSMA, Ericsson, and
IDEA Cellular team up to test a new mobile operation model - February, 2007,
Red Herring - The companies said they have teamed up to develop
biofuels for powering wireless networks in rural India. A pilot project
is already underway in the western city of Pune in Maharashtra where the
three organizations will soon begin using biofuels to power mobile base
stations. The program intends to have the base stations powered by
cotton or jatropha by mid-2007. GSMA is running a similar pilot in
Nigeria, where it has joined hands with Ericsson and the multinational
telecommunications group MTN to test biofuels as an alternative source
of power for wireless networks.
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has a focus on biodiesel production from algae while also discussing
alternative energy in general. Algae present an exciting possibility as a
feedstock for biodiesel, and when you realise that oil was originally
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