Lignin, a component of lignocellulosic biomass and a common byproduct stream from cellulosic conversion processes, has a potential market worth of USD242 billion across 13 select products alone, but commercialization of these lignin derived ...
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US production of biomass-based diesel in June surged 4.42 million gallons from May to a 2014-high of 149.079 million gallons, US Environmental Protection Agency data showed Friday. Biomass-based diesel production totaled 779.9 million ...
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Can the plant from which Tequila is made, agave, transform the economics of sustainable aviation biofuels? Byogy Renewables has invested in a strategic partnership with AusAgave Australia, aimed at developing multiple feedstocks to ...
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Renewable energy is a solution to carbon emission and climate change. As the world’s biggest carbon emitter, China has been encouraging solar power development and installation to lower its emission volume. To cut its reliance on ...
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The US imported 525 million gallons of biomass-based diesel in 2013, nearly 10 times the 2012 total of 61 million gallons, the Energy Information Administration data said Friday. The substantial growth reflected increased demand to ...
Tags: Diesel Imports, Biomass-Based Diesel, biodiesel production
Renewable specialists TGE Group has agreed a significant financing deal with Macquarie Lending to supply photovoltaic (PV) systems for commercial buildings across the UK. The programme, one of the largest in the UK, will allow TGE Group ...
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The proposed blending targets in the 2014 Renewable Fuel Standard will likely be revised higher, advocates for multiple industries said Monday. Proponents of the ethanol, biodiesel, advanced biofuels, petrochemicals and biotechnology ...
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Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s Green Power Partnership released an updated list of the Top 100 organizations that are choosing to use electricity from clean, renewable sources like wind and solar power. "By using ...
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The Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation (CCEI), a U.S. Department of Energy-Energy Frontier Research Center led by the University of Delaware, has announced a two-year program with ExxonMobil to research renewable chemicals from biomass. ...
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Flying a radio-controlled replica of the historic WWII P-51 Mustang red-tail aircraft—of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen—NRL researchers (l to r) Dr. Jeffrey Baldwin, Dr. Dennis Hardy, Dr. Heather Willauer, and Dr. David Drab ...
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One of the UK's leading independent solar PV companies has installed a revolutionary new energy management system that could help the renewable sector grow its share of the energy market. Solar South West Limited, based in Somerset, will ...
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From April 8-11, BASF will present new and efficient solutions for the hygiene industry at the INDEX 2014, the worldwide primary exhibition of nonwovens, at the Palexpo Exhibition & Congress Centre in Geneva, Switzerland. At the BASF booth ...
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RockTenn has entered into an agreement with Simpson Lumber to acquire the latter's Tacoma Kraft paper mill in Tacoma, Washington, for around $343m. The transaction, which is subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory ...
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An international team of marine biologists has found mesopelagic fish in the earth's oceans constitute 10 to 30 times more biomass than previously thought. UWA Professor Carlos Duarte says mesopelagic fish – fish that live between ...
Although low temperature fuel cells powered by methanol or hydrogen have been well studied, existing low temperature fuel cell technologies cannot directly use biomass as a fuel because of the lack of an effective catalyst system for ...
Tags: Hybrid Fuel Cell, Electricity