Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'catalysis'

The good, the bad, the ugly 2008/2009

The best piece of work on Biofuels 2008? For me that was the The Gallagher Review of the indirect effects of biofuels production. If you're a serious player in this market, you should read that report. Worst technology to...

Biofuels offer considerable scope for catalysts

The Catalyst Group says that biofuels offer considerable scope for catalysts, which could help improve yields and reduce reaction times. It's not on the Catalyst Group's website yet... so here's what they said in an email... The Catalyst Group Resources...

Dripping to biofuel

Reserchers at the North Carolina State University (you may remember them from an earlier post about self digesting sweet potatoes) have exclusively licensed their Centia technology to Diversified Energy Corp. Which says the process can produce jet fuel and a...

Syntic buys catalyst technology to convert biomass to ethanol

I came across this over on Envirofuel, a company called Syntic Biofuel has got hold of some catalyst technology to convert biomass into ethanol at a cost of around US 37 cents when operating at This is the kind of...