Tag Biofuels - results: 9
Scientists figured out how to make clean diesel
the international research team from Leuven (Belgium) and Utrecht University (the Netherlands) developed a new method of production that allows to obtain a more environmentally friendly diesel fuel. Scientists say the technology c...
Scientists have developed a cheap method for the production of biofuels from algae
Current methods for the production of biofuels in large volumes is economically disadvantageous. The production spent too much energy. Therefore, experts in this field have been searching for more efficient and less costly product...
Why biofuels are the future civil and military aviation
Biofuels — it is a fuel made from vegetable or animal raw materials, organic wastes and products of organisms. The list of products of biofuel is included as usual for us, like wood and straw, and a contraption, a sort of sy...
Company from UAE conducted the first commercial flight using biofuel
Etihad Airways of the UAE carried out the first fully commercial flight of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner using a biofuel based on Salicornia (plants of coastal strip with a high concentration of salt in the soil). The aircraft was equ...
Marine invertebrates have helped to convert wood into biofuel
In recent years, scientists around the world are trying to find ways to develop a cheap method of production of low-carbon fuels that could eventually replace petroleum products. And, it is possible that in this case, as often hap...
GENECIS: project for processing of food waste into bioplastics for 3D printing
food waste management is probably one of the most important problems concerning the environment. And if the discharge of substances from the combustion or gasoline engines in theory possible to do something radically abandoning th...
The plane made an Intercontinental flight on kerosene with mustard
the Airline Qantas said that the company-owned aircraft made an Intercontinental flight from the USA to Australia with fuel partially composed of mustard. For flight used mixed fuel, for 90 percent consisting of conventional aviat...
Russian scientists have developed ekotoplivo from waste
the High content of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to scientists, is the main cause of the greenhouse effect, and the particles of ash may contain heavy metals, toxins and carcinogenic trace elements. Therefore, the q...
The Japanese company began developing jet fuel from algae
Experts of the bioenergy company Euglena effort with five partners to 2019 to build and run in test mode first plant of biofuel. If all goes well, then a year later Euglena is about to start deliveries of the new fuel for cars and...