The National Algae Association’s Mid-South Chapter will be holding a workshop on how to best use wastewater to grow algae, especially algae for use in biodiesel. The workshop, entitled “Algae: Mining Wastewater for Nutrients, Fuel, and Fertilizer,” will be held in Huntsville, Alabama on Friday, March 26, 2010: With US fresh water supplies slowly dwindling and algae culture quickly becoming …
Squeezing More Oil from Crops for Biodiesel
The name of the game in the biodiesel biz is getting the most out of your feedstocks. Some researchers at the University of California-Davis have found a way to squeeze another 24 percent out of oilseeds such as safflower. This press release from the school says the new process converts both plant oils and carbohydrates into biodiesel in a single …
Biodiesel Grants Go to Iowa Schools
Two schools in the Hawkeye State have picked up Iowa Renewable Fuels Association Awards of $2,500 each. This press release from the association says Clay Central-Everly and Galva-Holstein Schools were awarded the Biodiesel Backer Award Program grants to educate their students and communities about biodiesel and incorporate biodiesel into their school programming: “IRFA congratulates Clay-Central Everly and Galva-Holstein on their …
U of Illinois Sponsors Biofuels Seminars
The University of Illinois is sponsoring a series of seminars focusing on biofuels and renewable energy. The school’s Center for Advanced BioEnergy Research (CABER) is holding the presentations, which are open to the public, Mondays at 4 pm at the U of I Urbana-Champaign campus: “This bioenergy seminar series provides a broad range of topics from different perspectives – academia, …
DF Cast: RFS2 Talk at Biodiesel and Ethanol Conferences
Earlier this month, the EPA finally released its new Renewable Fuels Standard, better known as RFS2. It was just in time as both the biodiesel and ethanol industries held their national conferences just days after the announcement, prompting multiple sessions at each gathering to discuss the implications of the new rules. In this edition of the Domestic Fuel Cast, we …
Tucson to Open Area’s First Large-Scale Biodiesel Plant
Tucson, Arizona will soon get the area’s first large-scale biodiesel plant. Inside Tucson Business reports EDG Fuels, a division of Environmental Development Group, will open the refinery next month using used cooking oil as the feedstock: EDG Fuels anticipates production to be about 3 million gallons of biodiesel the first year, with a potential of doubling to 6 million gallons …
Car Parts Makers Want Biodiesel Tested for Metals
The makers of automobile parts, also known as the original equipment manufacturing (OEM) community, as well as emission controls firms want to know how much metal is in biodiesel. This article from Biodiesel Magazine says the National Renewable Energy Laboratory has been able to improve detection of sodium and potassium … two elements that can compromise catalysts and diesel particulate …
US-China Group Announces $1.5 Bil Texas Wind Project
Two American companies have teamed with a Chinese company for a $1.5 billion West Texas wind farm project. The Austin (TX) Business Journal says Texas-based Cielo Wind Power and U.S. Renewable Energy Group out of Washington, DC have teamed with Shenyang, China-based A-Power Energy Generation Systems Ltd. subsidiary Shenyang Power Group for a 36,000 acre wind farm: A-Power will begin …
Report: Global Biodiesel Market Worth $12.6 Bil by 2014
A new market research report says that the biodiesel market will be worth $12.6 billion by the year 2014. This press release says the MarketsandMakets report, entitled ‘Global Biodiesel Market (2009 – 2014)’, says the markets in Europe and the Americas will make up nearly 85 percent of that total, with 55.6 percent and 28.6 percent respectively: Increasing environmental concerns …
US Military: Just Months Until Affordable Algae-Biodiesel
One of the biggest knocks on algae-based biodiesel is the high cost for the truly green fuel. But the U.S. military says it is just months away from making biodiesel from algae for the same cost as its petroleum-based counterpart. The UK’s Guardian reports that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency … better known as DARPA …. which helped develop …