Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'gas'
Fischer-Tropsch online resource
I've just come across a resource on line for people who are interested in gas to liquids technology developed by Fischer and Tropsch . You might like it if you're into pyrolysis as a first step to produce gas from...
A corny car
Sue, my colleague, found this picture of a corn built car on the Gas 2.0 blog in a post about Dow Chemical and Ford Motor Co and the future of fuels and motoring....
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...
Holiday time for me
I'm off on annual leave on 1 August returning to the office on 18 August. I'll be travelling irritatingly slowly up the UK motorway system in an attempt not to have to refill the car any more than I can...
Corrected: Ineos to use municpal waste and algae to make ethanol
Corrected:This article originally appeared with the headline Ineos goes down the Fischer Tropsch route to ethanol from municipal waste. The process will use algae to convert carbon dioxide and hydrogen into ethanol not a chemical catalyst. This has been corrected...
Fuel from Corn
I saw this image on Flickr (thankyou Mista Fitz) and thought it was a rather strong image of what many people think is wrong with biofuels at the moment. It may not tell the whole story in terms of...
A salutory lesson in fuel efficiency
I've just been given a salutory lesson in fuel efficiency on my way back from a week's holiday. I took the holiday after filming for a week in the US for my employer ICIS around the NPRA's recent convention in...
Energy Crops crunching the numbers
Researchers in Belgium have looked at the energy that can be released from grass and maize by anerobic digestion (that's letting things rot down, to you and me). According to the research published in Environmental Research Web, energetically this way...
Clean as you go and there's more potential biofuel
Clean as you go and there's more potential biofuel, three inventors from North Wales have developed a box that can capture the exhaust gases of cars so they can be used to grow algae. There are a number of technical...
Syngas from wood
If you're interested in using wood products such as shavings and chips to make useful biofuels, check out this woodfuel site. Instead of converting resin to hooch and thence to heat, these fellows recommend heating the wood up to very...
Biofuels: its not just Bullocks
Biomethane from cows. It had to happen, according to Planet Ark Pacific Gas & Electric Co. said Thursday it will purchase natural gas from cow manure produced at dairy farms in California to fuel power plants. The utility, a subsidiary...
Biodiesel from flue gas emissions
You remember that thing I picked up a few days ago about people using algae to make biodiesel from flue gas emissions? At the time I was a little sceptical about the idea,mostly because I...
Biofuel econmics and Huggers
Well our friendly huggers were almost right, it is almost possible to make biofuels economically in Europe using raw materials dragged across the world.. Here’s the punch line from the abstract (you can’t get any more because its from an...
Need a tank full of biodiesel?
I'm just a sucker for mapping applications. If you decide you want a tankfull of biodiesel then this could be the place for you. The link takes a few seconds to load, but it looks pretty comprehensive. You'll have to...
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