Latest Liquid fuels Stories
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online It may not come as a shock to most who have tasted it before, but some scientists are turning whiskey by-products into fuel. The Tullibardine distillery in Perthshire, Scotland is joining in with Celtic Renewables to create biofuel out of their whiskey leftovers. The scientists plan to use bacteria to feed on the "leftovers" from the whiskey making process to produce butanol, which can help fuel vehicles. Over 90% of the stuff...
HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AAA officials applauded House Agriculture Committee passage on Monday of a consumer protection bill that would authorize the state to test the octane level and quality of gasoline sold at the pump. Senate Bill 341, sponsored by Senator Greenleaf (R-Bucks) passed the Senate by a unanimous vote in April. AAA has strongly supported the measure which would join Pennsylvania with 47 other states with similar gasoline...
SINGAPORE, Sept. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sourced from agricultural products such as plant-based oils, animal fats and ethanol from naturally occurring sugar sources, biofuels are renewable chemicals and an environment-friendly alternative to crude oil-based fuels. Biodiesels emit fewer pollutants such as particulate matter, nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide, and hydrocarbons, which conventional fuels such as petrol and diesel release in large quantities due to incomplete combustion...
Shiply.com, the online transport marketplace, welcomed the Office of Fair Trading’s investigation into the current near record high fuel prices. London, UK (PRWEB) September 14, 2012 Shiply today welcomed the OFT’s investigation into rising fuel prices, amid fears that reductions in crude oil prices are not being passed onto motorists. The UK average petrol price is now 139.71p a litre, 3p less than the record high of 142.48p reached in April 2012. Diesel now costs an average of...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Statement by American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) President Charles T. Drevna on the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) decision today to increase bio-based diesel volumes to 1.28 billion gallons in 2012: (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120125/MM41823LOGO) "EPA's decision to increase the biomass diesel volumes is wholly discretionary and irresponsible. It only serves to increase our nation's...
PARIS, September 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- DEINOVE (Alternext Paris: ALDEI) announced that its R&D team and its partners in the DEINOL program isolated and optimized a strain of Deinococcus bacteria able to generate ethanol from wheat-based biomass. With production of an alcohol content of more than 3%, DEINOL exceeded its goal for this proof of concept milestone. DEINOVE's Deinococcus bacteria can degrade complex biomass residues into simple sugars and...
VIENNA, Sept. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SEE ALGAE Technology GmbH ("SAT" or "the Company"), a leading developer of infrastructure for the commercial production of high-quality algae, will present at the upcoming Algae Europe 2012 conference in Rome on Friday, September 7th. SAT CEO Dr. Joachim Grill will discuss the technical advantages of the company's algae photobioreactors in the industrial cultivation of micro-algae for use in the biofuels and livestock feed markets. "We are...
NEW YORK, Sept. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A comprehensive array of news, market analysis and pricing is now available to the burgeoning biofuels sector through three new products from Platts, a leading global energy, petrochemicals and metals information provider and a premier source of benchmark price references. "Platts has been covering biofuels for more than a decade in a variety of our publications," said Leon Yeo, Platts general manager of petrochemicals, "but given the...
PERTH, Australia, Aug. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Sourcing sustainable aviation biofuels at-scale is a major theme at this year's ILA Berlin Airshow and its dedicated Alternative Aviation Fuels Pavilion, designed to showcase the latest biofuels innovations. (11-16 September 2012) Algae.Tec, which is working with German aviation giant Lufthansa, will present its algae to aviation biofuels technology at the specialist Pavilion. Also at the ILA Berlin Airshow, Algae.Tec...
"Because clean diesel autos are 20 to 40 percent more efficient than gasoline vehicles, diesel will be a major player in the nation's effort to achieve the new mileage standards."- Allen Schaeffer, DTF Executive Director WASHINGTON, Aug. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The new fuel economy standards for automobile and light trucks announced today by Obama Administration officials will expand the opportunity for more clean diesel cars, light trucks and SUVs in the U.S., according...
