The US Department of Agriculture has provided US$16,893 to Advanced Biofuels USA, a Maryland-based non-profit educational organisation, for a feasibility study of producing bio-jet fuel from energy beets grown on the eastern shore of Maryland.
E. coli engineered to produce high yield of drop-in fuel [Registered]
Researchers at the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered a new method to cut out a major stumbling block in the of production a variety of branched-chain hydrocarbons via bioengineered E. coli.
USA – Red Rock Biofuels to power FedEx Express jets with lignocellulosic jet fuel [Registered]
The Lakeview refinery is designed to turn about 140,000 dry tons of woody biomass into 15 million gallons a year into liquid transportation fuels.
Drop-in jet fuel produced from cane bagasse via recyclable catalysts [Registered]
The lead researcher Alexis Bell said that “”The recyclable catalysts we developed are capable of converting sugarcane [bagasse] into a new class of aviation fuel and lubricants with superior cold-flow properties, density and viscosity that could achieve net life-cycle greenhouse gas savings of up to 80-percent.”
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Raw sugar for March delivery settled at 19.82 cents/pound on January 18 after reaching a two-and-a-half-week high earlier in the session at 20.25 cents. The white sugar contract expiring in […]
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