#Flight Flies on 100 Percent Biofuels This week saw the first-ever completely biofuel-powered flight take place.
drop in biofuel on its Falcon 20 jet, according to oilprice. com, marking a huge milestone for the aviation and renewable energy industries.
and transformed by Applied Research Associates into a complete replacement fuel for conventional jet fuel. Previously, flights on biofuels had been limited to a 50 percent blend with petroleum making this a major breakthrough.
Industrial biotechnology continues to enable solutions to energy challenges and building a biobased economy is key to reducing dependence on foreign oil enhancing our nation economic and energy security.
Production and use of advanced biofuel could displace at least 15 billion gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel the equivalent of 475 million barrels of oil each year by 2022, reducing oil imports by $70 billion
each year according to Bio-ERA. The U s. Navy has recognized long the importance of reducing dependence on foreign oil as it strives toward its goal of cutting petroleum use 50 percent by 2020.
Last week, the U s. Navy signed an agreement with biotech company Biodico to collaborate on developing advanced biofuels and bioenergy refineries throughout the globe for the U s. military.
Included in the agreement Biodico will build a sustainable biorefinery at the U s. Naval Base in Ventura County,
California that will produce biofuels and bioenergy at prices competitive with unsubsidized conventional fuel and power.
The California Energy Commission will partially fund the construction through grants. ur objective is to privately fund sustainable biorefineries at Dod facilities around the world at no cost to the U s. taxpayer,
and to eliminate our dependence on foreign oil, says JJ Rothgery, Biodico Chairman of the board in a Sustainablebusiness. com article.
For every $0. 25 rise in the price of jet fuel the Department of defense (Dod) must come up with an extra $1 billion annually,
which must be diverted from training, maintenance, and other mission-essential programs. The Pentagon spent $17. 3 billion on petroleum in 2011, a 26 percent increase from the previous year with practically no change in the volume purchased.
In fiscal year 2012 alone, the $30 increase in prices of oil resulted in more than $3b in additional, unplanned costs to Dod.
Progress in biofuel-powered flights and the Navy continued pursuit of alternative energy are great steps to help the United states build a biobased economy
and meet its responsibility to reduce reliance on foreign oil. A domestic biofuel industry means we grow fuels at home instead of importing them from abroad o
#Scientists made a major breakthrough in 3d-printed electronics that will keep you from ever drinking spoiled milk again Researchers have used 3d printing to develop a sensor that can be placed inside a carton of milk to detect
if the milk is fit for drinking and to alert if the milk has gone off."
#Cow Manure to Ethanol Plant Switches On in California's San joaquin valley The San joaquin valley has become America breadbasket over the past few decades.
On the upside, all that agricultural waste creates a solid biofuels pipeline. Forget the food-versus-fuel debate:
many of the crops grown in the valley are high-value products that are lucrative,
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The recent launch of the Calgren Ethanol Plant in the Tulare County town of Pixley is a step in helping California meet its clean energy goals while addressing the San joaquin valley terrible air pollution.
will churn cow manure into bioethanol which can then be blended with conventional gasoline. The core of Calgren plant is an anaerobic digester built by DVO,
which is based in Wisconsin. Regensis, a Washington state building contractor, was in charge of the plant construction.
Calgren Renewable fuels operates the plant, the output of which will be enough to fuel 145,000 cars annually.
In addition to generating ethanol biogas will also be produced in order to power the facility, nixing any need to be connected to the local grid.
The process starts with a nearby dairy, Four J Farms. Cow manure from the 1,
800 milk-producing cattle will flow down a pipeline to the Calgren plant. The manure is deposited then into the DVO-designed digester that is 16 feet deep
while clean fuel is culled from the manure, moisture is extracted also and then recycled so local farmers can use it to water their crops.
and hydrogen are getting a lot of media attention these days as the fuels of the future.
But it is the workhouse plants like this Calgren facility that reduce the carbon content of our fuel supply,
said Jim Mckinney, a project manager for CEC Alternative and Renewable fuel and Vehicle technology Program. Mckinney added that the ethanol produced at this plant results in the lowest carbon-emitting ethanol currently refined at an industrial scale throughout California.
More biorefineries such as the Calgren plant could help California solve multiple challenges a boost in production of clean transport fuels, the reduction in agricultural waste and for local residents,
better air quality in the San joaquin valley. here is enough organic waste (in California) to power 2 to 3 million homes
ultra-low carbon transportation fuels, said Regenis Vice president Bryan Vanloo. Furthermore, Steve Dvorak, President of DVO, reminded the audience that one cow alone creates about 100 to 130 cubic feet of biogas a day,
or the equivalent of 65, 000 BTUS or 6 kilowatt-hours daily. California dairy industry is not going away anytime soon,
According to the U s. Environmental protection agency coal-and natural gas-fired plants were responsible for one-third of U s. greenhouse gas emissions in 2012.
That's why the agency has proposed rules mandating dramatically reduced carbon emissions at all new fossil fuel-fired power plants.
Current carbon capture technology uses caustic amine-based solvents to separate CO2 from the flue gas escaping a facility's smokestacks.
MECS provide a new way to capture carbon with fewer environmental issues says Roger D. Aines leader of the fuel cycle innovations program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and a co
This innovative gas separation platform provides large surface areas while eliminating a number of operational issues including corrosion evaporative losses
Perhaps this is why the powerful and wealthy Rockefeller family recently sold out of fossil fuels and switched their investments towards clean energy?
The hottest hot beverages in Manhattan are the sippable one brothsfrom Brodo single-service window, with add-ins like Calabrian chili oil, shiitake mushroom tea and fermented beet juice.
while cutting fuel consumption by 20 percent. The Air2nitrous team describes its electronic emissions control system as a"first phase"device because it works before and during combustion.
which is enriched an fuel/air mixture. According to the company, less nitrogen means less nitric oxide and nitrogen oxide (NOX),
The system works with combustion engines powered with various fuels, including diesel, LPG, bunker oil, gasoline, natural gas and others.
They add it takes 30 minutes to install the A2n device, a job that can be done by any mechanic to any internal combustion engine,
Beyond air quality and climate change mitigation benefits, California abundant renewable energy resources provide energy with zero marginal cost and zero fuel price volatility to our citizens,
NASA describes the drone as quieter than a neighbor using a gas-powered-motor lawn mower in the yard next door.
"The advantage of CNF over other polymers is that it's a bio-based material and most other polymers are based petroleum polymers.
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and petroleum to detect and measure heavy metals. Among the most important advantages of this nanosorbent, mention can be made of reducing the cost of food sample evaluation,
multi-layer graphene by varying the ambient pressure, ambient gas, temperature and time during the treatment.
Water splitting combines sunlight and water in a chemical reaction in order to harvest clean hydrogen energy. By smoothing the surface of hematite,
a team of researchers led by Boston College chemist Dunwei Wang achieved'unassisted'water splitting using the abundant rust-like mineral and silicon to capture and store solar energy within hydrogen gas.
'This offers new hope that efficient and inexpensive solar fuel production by readily available natural resources is within reach,
the central process behind using artificial photosynthesis to capture and store solar energy in hydrogen gas.
poor access to water pipelines often leads to a heavy reliance on well water. But some ranchers find that even their livestock wont tolerate the saltiness of this water.
"The friction between the tire and the ground consumes about 10 percent of a vehicle's fuel,
it could give us very good improvement in fuel efficiency.""The nanogenerator relies on an electrode integrated into a segment of the tire.
-but Wang estimates about a 10-percent increase in the average vehicle's gas mileage given 50-percent friction energy conversion efficiency."
where they create clothing that kills bacteria, conducts electricity, wards off malaria, captures harmful gas and weaves transistors into shirts and dresses.
Marcia Silva da Pinto, postdoctoral researcher, works on growing metal organic frameworks onto cotton samples to create a filtration system capable of capturing toxic gas,
can be manipulated at the nano level to build nanoscale cages that are the exact same size as the gas they are trying to capture.
multi-layer graphene by varying the ambient pressure, ambient gas, temperature and time during the treatment.
In that case, both the plastic and the oil-based sauce are hydrophobic and interact together.
and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, carcinogenic compounds formed from incomplete combustion of fuels, from contaminated soil. The process is irreversible
#Living lasers made by injecting oil droplets into human cells Light fantastic (Image: Matja Humar and Seok Hyun Yun) Individual cells have been turned into tiny lasers. t actually super-easy,
The first involved injecting each one with a tiny oil droplet, forming an optical cavity which could be filled with fluorescent dye.
they performed the same function as the oil droplets, emitting laser light when excited. The final way involved exploiting the fatty droplets that exist naturally within living cells. e all have these fat cells inside our tissue.
Other uses might include engineering oil-eating bacteria to use on a spill. They could be killed off
unlike a lot of the petroleum-based alternatives that manufacturers use to build the bases of modern computer chips.
#Flexible methane production from electricity and biomass The variable operation modes were the biggest challenge during development says Project Head Siegfried Bajohr of the Engler-Bunte Institute (EBI) of KIT.
From the products of a biomass gasification plant i e. hydrogen carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide the Demosng pilot plant directly produces methane and water by means of a nickel catalyst (SNG operation.
As conventional methanation processes reach their limits at this point we have developed a new reactor concept Bajohr says.
Metallic honeycombs are used already as catalytic convertors of exhaust gas in cars. They are characterized by a high thermal conductivity and mechanical robustness with a low pressure loss during alternating operation modes.
There it will be integrated into the gas flows of a biomass gasification plant utilizing wooden residues.
In the future it might be possible to efficiently operate even smaller decentralized units e g. at rural biogas facilities.
and transporting it in our gas grids in the form of methane Thomas Kolb Head of the Engler-Bunte Institute of KIT emphasizes.
Frank Graf Section Head of the test laboratory of the German Technical and Scientific Association of Gas and Water (DVGW) at KIT adds:
So far admixture of hydrogen in the natural gas grid has been limited to a few percent as storage distribution
Methanation has the advantage that the infrastructure existing for the distribution and storage of natural gas and the standard appliances can be used further without any modifications
or readjustments being required. Via an effective methanation wind and solar power can be fed into the natural gas grid without any limitations.
Demosng demonstrates how sustainable European innovations are Karl-Friedrich Ziegahn Head of the Natural and Built environment Division of KIT and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the European KIC Innoenergy says.
For example it might be converted decentrally with the carbon dioxide produced by the about 800000 biogas facilities
and stored in the form of methane. Thanks to the newly developed honeycomb catalyst also smaller and medium-sized plants can be operated efficiently y
and construction materials to keep fuel-generated warmth inside. Cui's team wanted to take a different approach
The"fuel"used is wastewater, and the products of the process are purified water droplets and electricity.
Nature's own generator The biological fuel cell is powered by entirely natural processes--with the help of living microorganisms."
#Oils fats innovation: Use of nanotechnology in cosmetics and pharmaceuticals A Faculty of science Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) lecturer Professor Dr Mahiran Basri not only succeeded in producing new useful substances made of oils
and fats for the industry but also managed to produce them through environmental-friendly ways. This organic synthesis uses enzymes and it is produced through nanotechnology.
Our focus is to process new substances derived from oils and fats she said in an interview at her office.
Gas sensors or implantable chips for medical applications which can gather information about blood sugar levels
And yet, PLA is considered not yet a full alternative to traditional petroleum-based plastics, as it is costly to produce.
However, PLA is not yet a full alternative for petroleum-based plastics due to its cost. The production process for PLA is expensive because of the intermediary steps."
Of course, PLA will never fully replace petroleum-based plastics. For one thing, some objects, such as toilet drain pipes, are meant not to be biodegradable.
CNF offers many benefits over current chip substrates, she says. he advantage of CNF over other polymers is that it a bio-based material and most other polymers are based petroleum polymers.
While biofuels have proven to be an effective, renewable, low-carbon alternative to gasoline and diesel, jet fuels pose unique challenges.
and the BP energy company. ee combined chemical catalysis with life-cycle greenhouse gas modeling to create a new process for producing bio-based aviation fuel as well as automotive lubricant base oils,
a chemical engineer with joint appointments at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley. he recyclable catalysts we developed are capable of converting sugarcane biomass into a new class of aviation fuel and lubricants with superior cold
The paper is titled ovel pathways for fuels and lubricants from biomass optimized using life-cycle greenhouse gas assessment.
The concentrations of carbon and other greenhouse gases in Earth atmosphere are now at their highest levels in the past three million years, primarily as a result of the burning of petroleum and other fossil fuels.
Biofuels synthesized from the sugars in plant biomass help mitigate climate change. However jet fuels have stringent requirements that must be met. et fuels must be oxygen-free,
have the right boiling point distribution and lubricity, and a very low pour point, meaning the fuel can become gelatinous in the cold temperatures of the stratosphere,
Bell says. iofuel solutions, such as farnesane, mixed directly with petroleum jet fuel have been tested, but offer only modest greenhouse gas reduction benefits.
Ours is the first process to generate true drop in aviation biofuels. Scown cites the Intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC) on the importance of drop in aviation biofuels. n a 2014 report
the IPCC pointed out that drop in biofuels are the only viable alternative to conventional jet fuels,
she says. f we want to reduce our dependence on petroleum, air travel is going to require renewable liquid fuels
because batteries and fuel cells simply aren practical. The process developed at EBI can be used to selectively upgrade alkyl methyl ketones derived from sugarcane biomass into trimer condensates with better than 95-percent yields.
These condensates are deoxygenated then hydro into a new class of cycloalkane compounds that contain a cyclohexane ring and a quaternary carbon atom.
These cycloalkane compounds can be tailored for the production of either jet fuel or automotive lubricant base oils.
Lubricant base oils can produce even more greenhouse gas emissions on a per-mass basis than petroleum-derived fuels
if even a fraction of the lubricant is repurposed as fuel. The ability of the EBI process to yield jet fuel
or lubricants should be a significant advantage for biorefineries. ugarcane biorefineries today produce ethanol, sugar and electricity, says PNAS paper co-author Gokhale, a chemical engineer,
who is managing the research project from BP side. xpanding the product slate to include aviation fuels
and lubricant base oils could allow for operators to manage their market risks better, which is exactly how petrochemical refinery complexes operate today.
Rather than optimize for one product, they try to optimize the overall product slate. Adds Scown,
nother important advantage offered by our process is that it enables refineries to convert a portion of the bagasse,
the fibrous residue that remains after juice is extracted from sugarcane stalk, into fuels and other products.
The rest of the waste biomass can be combusted to produce process heat and electricity to operate the refinery.
This new EBI process for making jet fuel and lubricants could also be used to make diesel
and additives for gasoline as Gokhale explains. ith some minimal modifications to both the catalysts
Although the goal of this study was to develop a strategy for the flexible production of jet fuels and lubricant base oils in a Brazilian sugarcane refinery,
but hold that there still important incentives to encourage investments. ee shown in this study that biorefineries can use inexpensive catalysts to produce a suite of hydrocarbon fuels and lubricants,
biorefineries can also operate without any fossil-derived inputs. o
#New way to produce carbon nanoparticles found only honey and microwave needed Researchers at University of Illinois have created a new inexpensive and simple way to produce carbon nanoparticles.
it could give us very good improvement in fuel efficiency Improving fuel efficiency would benefit everyone it would help automotive industry meet new strict regulations for emissions,
However, scientists estimated that fuel efficiency could be improved by as much as 10%,given 50%friction energy conversion efficiency.
and 10%savings in terms of fuel consumption are pretty big leap forward. But, as usual, we will have to wait
works on growing metal organic frameworks onto cotton samples to create a filtration system capable of capturing toxic gas,
captures harmful gas and weaves transistors into shirts and dresses. otton is one of the most fascinating and misunderstood materials,
can be manipulated at the nano level to build nanoscale cages that are the exact same size as the gas they are trying to capture. e wanted to harness the power of these molecules to absorb gases
how to keep milk cold without burning diesel fuel. Theye been selling refrigerators in India for two years;
The dairy collection center in Chetawala, in the state of Rajasthan, estimates that it saves around 40,000 rupees ($628) a month on diesel fuel and reduced milk spoilage since installing a Rapid Milk Chiller
The idea is that instead of making chips from petroleum-based plastic, we'd be able to use cellulose nanofibril-a flexible,
A two-litre petrol engine drives two fans either side of the pilot to lift the jet pack and up to 120kgs of human into the air,
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