The methods developed to create the designer genomic structure could help synthetic biologists better use the single-celled fungi as biological factories for chemicals like biofuels and drugs.
creating living factories for medicines, biofuels, and more (see icrobes Can Mass-produce Malaria Drugand iofuel Plant Opens in Brazil.
That fountain of variability could be key to finding ways to push our fermenting friends to more efficiently create biofuels and other chemicals f
#Sweet source for aviation biofuel Researchers have identified a new way to produce aviation fuel from sugarcane biomass that could deliver substantial cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.
Biofuel sweetspot"We've identified a new route of chemistry with its source from sugars in sugarcane plus some of the so-called waste material called bagasse"
The development of a reliable biofuel that can be scaled up to a level that be used by the world's commercial airlines has proved somewhat elusive.
The search for aviation biofuels broke on to the public stage in the late 2000s
when there were a number of test flights using a blend of conventional fuel and biofuel. In February 2008, the first commercial flight partly powered by biofuel (derived from a mixture of babassu nuts
and coconuts) took off from London's Heathrow airport. After a lengthy review by aircraft makers, engine manufacturers and fuel producers, biofuels were approved for commercial use in 2011.
Prof Bell said the team were hopeful that their findings would ultimately be adopted by commercial fuel producers."
"Food v fuel In recent years, political support for biofuels has waned as concern grew that global demand for biofuels would result in a switch away from food production to biofuel production, exacerbating food security worries.
"Prof Bell said that the process to make the aviation biofuel outlined in his team's paper would use waste biomass to generate the energy required operate the refinery,
who studies phyto-engineering for biofuel synthesis. e hope to help democratize the field of synthetic biology for students and researchers all over the world with this model,
#Biodiesel production from Sugarcane A multi-institutional team led by plant biology professor Stephen P. Long from the University of Illinois reports that it can increase sugarcane's geographic range boost its photosynthetic rate by 30 percent
and turn it into an oil-producing crop for biodiesel production. These are the first steps in a bigger initiative that will turn sugarcane
#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.
Previously, flights on biofuels had been limited to a 50 percent blend with petroleum making this a major breakthrough.
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
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.
California that will produce biofuels and bioenergy at prices competitive with unsubsidized conventional fuel and power.
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
A domestic biofuel industry means we grow fuels at home instead of importing them from abroad o
#What Will It Take for the U s. to Maintain Leadership in the Biopharma Industry? The biopharmaceutical industry is an important contributor to U s. economic growth and sustainability,
Wee guessing that Suncor wind energy and biofuel operations attracted some of the interest, but the company is also a longtime oil sands developer in Canada, sobaby steps r
On the upside, all that agricultural waste creates a solid biofuels pipeline. Forget the food-versus-fuel debate:
Biofuels, clean energy, renewable energy, biofuels, biogas, cow manure, waste diversion, Pixley, Calgren, Regensis, Tulare County, DVO, California Energy Commission, dairy industry, San joaquin valley
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,
biogas will also be produced in order to power the facility, nixing any need to be connected to the local grid.
Furthermore, Steve Dvorak, President of DVO, reminded the audience that one cow alone creates about 100 to 130 cubic feet of biogas a day,
#Weirdest Biofuel Ever Powers Strangest Car Ever The folks at Columbia University have come up with a loating enginethat runs on evaporating water
Wee covered microbe-assisted biofuel plenty of times, but this spore business hadn crossed our radar before.
Weirdest Biofuel Ever, For anything Columbia press materials sum up the strange new car in one pithy sentence:
More & Better Biofuel Just the other day, we were talking about what a big week this has been for biofuel news,
and that was before we even got wind of the Columbia spore-enabled engine. On Monday, BMW teased out word of its plans for a fuel cell electric vehicle launch in 2020.
Wee thinking that could have something to do with the biofuel landfill gas, to be precise source for hydrogen that the company has been messing around with (visit our sister site Gas2. org for more coverage).
The company Joule updated us on new patents for its cyanobacteria-to-biofuel process powered by sunlight and carbon dioxide, researchers at Tohoku University hit upon a new method for converting algae to biofuel precursors,
In addition to the exhaust gases, syngas similar gas mixtures from home and industrial waste incineration can also be used for the engineered process
The biochemists at IME use syngas a mixture of carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and hydrogen as a carbon resource for fermentation.
the syngas transforms either into short-chain alcohols like butanol and hexanol, or into acetone.
At the same time, Fraunhofer further expanded its syngas fermentation system and used it for experiments with the steel and chemicals industry.
which can be a useful component of biofuels. The work opens the door for scientists to manipulate such organisms to produce compounds useful as fuels or medicines."
This is useful not only for making commercially viable biofuels but also commodities such as pharmaceuticals,"said microbiologist Alex Beliaev, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory,
"In Pacific Northwest National Laboratorys Microbial Cell Dynamics Laboratory, scientists produce microorganisms for biofuels and alternative fuel research.
it's under particular scrutiny for its potential to make biofuels and other high-value products."
a compound that can be processed into biodiesel and higher-value products, such as soaps and detergents.
In the future it might be possible to efficiently operate even smaller decentralized units e g. at rural biogas facilities.
For example it might be converted decentrally with the carbon dioxide produced by the about 800000 biogas facilities
#Researchers identify materials to improve biofuel petroleum processing The University of Minnesota has two patents pending on the research
Petrochemical and biofuel refineries use materials called zeolites that act as molecular sieves to sort filter and trap chemical compounds as well as catalyze chemical reactions necessary to produce
The key to improving biofuel and petrochemical processes is to find which zeolites work best.
The first problem researchers tackled is the current multi-step ethanol purification process encountered in biofuel production.
Similar zeolitic materials could also have possible applications for separations in the biofuels and petrochemical industry.
#Revolutionary microbe for biofuel production developed Biofuels pioneer Mascoma LLC and the Department of energy's Bioenergy Science Center have developed a revolutionary strain of yeast that could help significantly accelerate the development of biofuels from nonfood plant matter.
The approach could provide a pathway to eventual expansion of biofuels production beyond the current output limited to ethanol derived from corn.
and Lallemand Biofuels and Distilled Spirits.""The next step for BESC will be to demonstrate and again validate the application of the consolidated bioprocessing approach using thermophilic,
or heat-loving, bacteria to produce biofuels directly from biomass in a single process o
such as the creation of manufactured goods, biofuels and therapeutic drugs. Lead author of the study Professor Rudolf Allemann,
#Unlocking fermentation secrets open door to new biofuels"This work advances our fundamental understanding of the complex,
therefore facilitating the development of next-generation biofuels.""Microbial metabolism is a means by which a microbe uses nutrients and generates energy to live
advanced biofuels that can be used directly to fuel your cars,"added Lu, who is affiliated also with the Department of physics
and for guiding strain design and protocol optimization--invaluable for the development of efficient metabolic engineering strategies, expediting the development of advanced biofuels.
engineers have been working with alternative fuels. A Norwegian engineer is currently pursuing a new approach: With Vindskiptm, he has designed a cargo ship that is powered by wind and gas.
While biofuels have proven to be an effective, renewable, low-carbon alternative to gasoline and diesel, jet fuels pose unique challenges.
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,
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
all of which will contain about 30 percent biofuel. The animal-based propellent is produced by California-based Altair Fuels.
Today, United will announce a $30 million investment in Fulcrum Bioenergy, one of the largest makers of aviation biofuels.
Globally, airlines have been looking at biofuel use for some time, but this marks the biggest ever investment in alternative fuels by a major commercial airline, reports The New york times. Eventually, United plans to integrate biofuels into its entire fleet.
Typical fossil fuels used in aviation are formed from the organic remains of dead plants and animals that have been buried deep within the Earth.
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