Biodiesel Pump
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Biodiesel Drives Your Energy Further

This is a guest post from Richard Kirk. He is an activist in the green movement and enjoys researching and distributing tips and ideas that will help improve the future well-being of our planet. Biodiesel is a renewable fuel for diesel engines derived from vegetable oils or animal fats.  It is made from renewable sources, [...]

January 6, 2012 Full Story »
Lufthansa A380
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Biofuels in the Airline Industry

Just a few years ago, it seemed to be absurd to replace kerosene based aviation fuels with biofuels derived from renewable resources. The cost of producing alternative fuels that meet the high requirements in this industry was the economically restricting factor. What happened? The 2008 spike in oil prices boosted new interest. Today, biofuels offer [...]

February 21, 2011 Full Story »
Wheat Straw for Biofuel Production
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Biofuel Investments of Major Oil Companies Part 3

This is the final piece of the 3 part article about biofuel investments of major oil companies. To read the first part, follow this link.  To read the second part, follow this link. Shell Royal Dutch Shell claims to be the world’s biggest distributor of biofuels, distributing 9 billion liters in 2009 – mainly ethanol [...]

January 20, 2011 Full Story »
ExxonMobile and SGI's Algae Research
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Biofuel Investments of Major Oil Companies Part 2

Are major oil companies already preparing for the post-fossil-fuel-age? Within recent years, big oil corporations are increasingly involved into research and development of different petroleum alternatives and now, they seem to focus on commercial viable biofuels. The petroleum industry is aware of rising crude oil prices, a rising demand of energy and an increasing environmental pollution. To contribute to these circumstances, a variety of joint ventures with smaller biofuel or biotechnology firms have started to exploit the potential of renewable fuels.

January 11, 2011 Full Story »
Sugar Cane for BP's and Tropical BioEnergia's Sugar Cane Venture
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Biofuel Investments of Big Oil Companies Part 1

Is Big Oil going green? Have you ever thought about the involvement of major oil companies in R&D or distribution of biofuels? Yeah… just like me! But I was disabused of the notion that most oil companies are predators who exploit earth’s resources, pollute the environment, rake in money and if they do something that [...]

January 4, 2011 Full Story »
From Glycerine To Green Chemicals
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From Glycerol to Green Chemicals Part 2

Read the first part of this article As promised a few days ago I hereby publish the second part of the article: From Glycerine to Green Chemicals. If you haven’t read the first part, it’s highly recommended to do so. Propylene Glycol Archer Daniels Midland (US), one of the largest agricultural processors in the world, [...]

December 15, 2010 Full Story »
Biodiesel Transesterification
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From Glycerine to Green Chemicals Part 1

Guess what?! There is still a lot to know about what to do with the increasing amount of generated glycerol (also glycerine, glycerin) obtained by biodiesel production. Besides the well established sell of purified glycerine to manufacturers of cosmetics and pharmaceuticals a variety of novel conversion techniques are introduced. This article is intended to be [...]

December 12, 2010 Full Story »
NExBTL Plant Singapore
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World’s Biggest Biodiesel Plant Starts Up

Neste Oil starts up the world’s largest renewable diesel plant in Singapore which has an annual capacity of 800,000 tons. According to Neste’s information the construction costs were around US$ 550 million. The plant was completed on-schedule as well as on-budget. “We are very proud of the new plant and the NExBTL technology behind it, [...]

December 1, 2010 Full Story »
Bioreactor by kaibara87 / Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license
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The Algae Biofuel Revolution

Currently, algae receive great attention due to their potential to become an alternative to fossil fuels. There is much talk about this new source of biomass for the generation of renewable energy and maybe some other commodity chemicals too. Algae can yield a high amount of biomass per unit of light and area, do not [...]

October 17, 2010 Full Story »
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Most Widespread Types of Biofuels: Part 1

Numerous technologies are being widened and established for transforming sustainable feedstocks into a variety of biofuels. Environmental and social consequences of biofuels from agricultural crops became the theme of media and drawn several public and private debates and campaigns due to the utilization of first generation technology. Generally, “first generation biofuels” are generated from crops [...]

September 26, 2010 Full Story »