A thermochemical process can convert lipids from sewage sludge into biodiesel, according to a new study (Environ. Sci. Technol., DOI: 10.1021/es3019435). The low cost and high yield of the sludge ...
The Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) is challenging government claims that its members stand to reduce their carbon footprint in any significant manner through a biodiesel mandate announced February ...
An Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientist may have found a way to remove a costly component of biodiesel production. Michael Haas, a biochemist with the ARS Eastern Regional Research Center&#39 ...
A Japanese research team has created an environmentally friendly catalyst for producing biodiesel, an alternative fuel, from renewable sources. The new catalyst is mainly charred sugars. Biodiesel ...
After battling efforts this fall to lower the renewable fuels mandate, Iowa political and industry leaders expressed mixed emotions with the new standard set for blending ethanol and biodiesel in the ...
Professor William Clark from the Chemical Engineering Department explained: “As part of their senior thesis, some of our undergraduate students suggested a ‘green’ experiment; converting vegetable oil ...
Christine and Scott Gable are hybrid auto and alternative fuel experts who have brewed their own biodiesel and traveled 125,000 miles on waste vegetable oil. Finding and maintaining a good supply of ...