WORCESTER, Mass., April 18, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Taking a step closer to a "green" replacement for fossil fuels, a research team that includes a chemical engineer at Worcester Polytechnic ...

Plants grown for biofuel have the potential to power our travel industry, but an important fraction of their chemical power ...

As an alternative to liquid fossil fuels, biodiesel extracted from microalgae is an increasingly important part of the bioenergy field. While it releases a similar amount of CO2 as petroleum when ...

A new process to transform algae directly into biodiesel and other renewable fuels uses carbon dioxide in place of toxic solvents. New work on the new method could raise algae's profile as a source of ...

(Nanowerk News) A new biofuel production process created by Michigan State University researchers produces energy more than 20 times higher than existing methods. The results, published in the current ...

UC Santa Cruz chemists have discovered a new way to produce biodiesel from waste oil that both simplifies the process and requires relatively mild heat. This discovery has the potential to make the ...

The researchers describe a new process for extracting fat from chicken feather meal using boiling water and processing it into biodiesel. Given the amount of feather meal generated by the poultry ...

A startup based in Cambridge, MA–Joule Biotechnologies–today revealed details of a process that it says can make 20,000 gallons of biofuel per acre per year. If this yield proves realistic, it could ...

Water Environment Research, Vol. 88, No. 1, Special Issue: Algae (JANUARY 2016), pp. 21-28 (8 pages) Although water is one of the most critical factors affecting the sustainable development of algal ...

Scientists are reporting development of a new and environmentally friendly process for producing biodiesel fuel from "chicken feather meal," made from the 11 billion pounds of poultry industry waste ...