Biodiesel Fuels Information.
Nova Biosource Fuels Updates Progress at the Seneca and Scott Biodiesel Refineries (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) Nova Biosource Fuels, Inc. , a refiner and marketer of ASTM quality biodiesel, announced today that it has completed commissioning the third and final 20 million gallon per year production train at its biodiesel refinery in Seneca, Illinois, having run the train at or above nameplate capacity using feedstocks with free fatty acid levels in excess of 10%.
Pricey Chemicals Gleaned From Biodiesel Waste (Science Daily) Chemical engineers have unveiled a set of techniques for cleanly converting problematic biofuels waste into profitable chemicals. New research in the journal Metabolic Engineering describes a new fermentation process that allows E. coli and other enteric bacteria to convert glycerin -- the major waste byproduct of biodiesel production -- into formate, succinate and other valuable organic acids. ...
PennFuture Lauds Passage of Biofuels Legislation (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) HARRISBURG, Pa.----Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future today commended the Pennsylvania legislature for passing two bills to expand the use of biofuels in Pennsylvania. One bill requires transportation fuels sold in Pennsylvania to include increasing amounts of cellulosic ethanol and biodiesel .
Colombia finds biofuels bonanza in sugar cane (Houston Chronicle) Even as low world prices and the weak U.S. dollar have hurt sugar exporters in Colombia, its biofuels industry is growing by leaps and bounds.
Green Spot Gives Consumers Eco-friendly Convenience Store (Display & Design Ideas) Dallas-based Green Spot Market & Fuels offers consumers an eco-friendly convenience store, according to The Dallas Morning News . Instead of cigarettes, the convenience store offers fresh flowers near the checkout counter.
Biofuel dumped: Greenwich drops alternative energy source as cost rises (Stamford Advocate) GREENWICH - The town has dropped a plan to use a soy-based biodiesel fuel to power about half of its 300-vehicle fleet after the price of the environmentally friendly fuel became too high, officials said.
From Chicken Fat to B100 Diesel Fuel: The Pinnacle Biofuels Plant (Ashley County Ledger) It takes six days for a blend of chicken fat and soybean oil to emerge from the reactors as B100 biodiesel, but the process is such at Pinnacle Biofuels in Crossett that the company produces 29,000 gallons of diesel per day, or 20 gallons per minute.
White to look at biodiesel fuel for buses used by schools (The Southeast Sun) When the question was asked of who was interested, Enterprise City Schools Transportation Supervisor Ron White quickly raised his hand. White acknowledged interest, along with other school system transportation supervisors, of using biodiesel fuel in the school system?s busses at a recent workshop.
KU team to test biodiesel (Lawrence Journal-World) Susan Williams isn?t exactly John D. Rockefeller, but she does hope to exploit what she sees as an opportunity-filled market for alternative fuels. With her raw materials virtually cost-free ? used cooking oil from campus dining facilities, leftover methanol from chemistry researchers and potassium hydroxide (lye) from the hardware store ? the associate professor of chemical and petroleum ...
NADBank signs off on $20 million biodiesel project loan in El Paso (San Antonio Business Journal) The North American Development Bank (NADBank) has approved a $20 million loan with Global Alternative Fuels LLC that will lead to the development of a new biodiesel project in El Paso, Texas.
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