Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'catalyst'

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...

A catalytic route to Biodisel

Workers in the mid west have developed a catalytic route to biodiesel with few or no by products... The downside is that you need to be able to heat the catalyst to 300C at a pressure of around 2500 psi,...

Catalyst break through for biofuels

The Ames Laboratory (at the US Department of Energy) and Iowa State University recently published a press release claiming that it should be possible to produce ethanol from all types of carbon-based biomass. This is reported on Senter Novem. The...

Grace into Biofuels

According to the Green Car Congress Grace Davison, part of WR Grace is setting up a BioFuel Technologies Group to devise catalysts and adsorbants to produce bioethanol and biodiesel....