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 Upton NY (SPX) Oct 22, 2009 
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have identified a novel enzyme responsible for the formation of suberin - the woody, waxy, cell-wall substance found in cork. While effective at keeping wine inside a bottle, suberin's most important function in plants is to control water and nutrient transportation and keep pathogens out. Adjusting the ... read more
Landover MD (SPX) Oct 21, 2009The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced that FDC Enterprises of Columbus, Ohio, was one of five winners to share in a $21 million grant to develop supply systems to handle and deliver feedstocks for cellulosic biofuels production. Cellulosic biofuels can be derived from a diverse number of feedstocks including switchgrass, woodchips, and agricultural residues. ... more
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Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Oct 21, 2009Alfa Laval has received an order from PetroVietnam Group. The order value is about SEK 100 million and includes equipment and engineering solutions to an ethanol production plant in central Vietnam. Delivery is scheduled for 2010. Alfa Laval's heat exchangers, decanters and tank cleaning equipment will be used in the starch-based fermentation, distillation and dehydration processes of the ... more 
Syracuse NY (SPX) Oct 20, 2009Summerhill Biomass Systems is planting the seeds of innovation into the Syracuse Tech Garden. Summerhill, named after the Cayuga County community where the technology was developed, has pending patents across the globe on its system for grinding up timber, brush, corn stalks and other plant waste and converting the fine powder into heat. Dr. James T. McKnight, Summerhill president and ... more 
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Oct 20, 2009No dependency on oil: this is the objective of the five research partners who, on Tuesday, 13 October 2009 in Doha, Qatar, signed a cooperation agreement to investigate alternative fuels for use in aviation. Together with the energy company Shell, the technology centre Qatar Science and Technology Park (QSTP), Texas A and M University at Qatar and the engine manufacturer Rolls Royce ... more |
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Yerington NV (SPX) Oct 09, 2009Desert Hills Dairy Biodigester has begun plans and acquired land to construct the first biodigester in the State of Nevada at Desert Hills Dairy in Wabuska, near Yerington, Nevada. The biodigester will capture methane from the effluent from dairy cattle to generate clean electrical energy, highly nutritious and non-toxic liquid fertilizer, a mulch by-product and enough power to run both ... more 
Indianapolis IN (SPX) Oct 09, 2009For the last five years, Madison County farmer Mike Shuter has maintained the same crop rotation on his farm of two-thirds of his fields in corn and one-third in soybeans. He hasn't seen the need to increase his corn acres even with the evolution of the biofuels industry and its need for corn. This seems to be the trend across the state. Indiana farmers planted 5.7 million acres of corn in ... more 
London, UK (SPX) Oct 09, 2009The utilisation of second-generation bio feedstock, such as agricultural residue, forest residue and black liquor, is currently limited to power generation in combined heat and power (CHP) plants or regeneration units. Second-generation bio feedstock has been extensively researched in order to produce liquid fuels for transportation. Over time, technological advances are poised to make second ... more |
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