The biodiesel programme at Clemson College has been named the Energy Project of the Year by the organisation of South Carolina Energy Executives .
The biodiesel initiative was started with the goal to convert diesel-powered cars to use more biodiesel made of cooking oil picked up from dining halls and local companies. The automobiles and apparatus in varsity Facilities landscaping and application services use twenty % biodiesel now. The plan is to extend that to one hundred %. Biodiesel is an ecological alternative option to diesel fuel. It is made of replenish-able sources like plant oil, animal fats, cooking oil and even algae.
At Clemson, the cooking oil is brought to the BioEnergy Lab in McAdams Hall, where scholars work with instructors and staff to convert the cooking oil into fuel.
This work is done in a facility that's powered a hundred p.c by eco-friendly energy. "With cutting edge research on developing new fuel sources and the continual support of the Clemson facilities staff, our share of replaceable fuel consumed may continue to increase, improving Clemson's environment and creating Clemson Varsity as a frontrunner in replenish-able fuels research and implementation," recounted David Thornton, research associate for the biosystems engineering programme. Autos require no alterations to utilise the biodiesel fuel, which is distributed from a 1,000-gallon tank at the school lumber yard. The programme has the ability to save $8,000 to $9,000 a year and keep seventy thousand pounds of carbon from reaching the atmosphere.
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Thursday, November 24, 2011
Monday, November 21, 2011
Biodiesel Output in iTaly for 2011 is Dropped 32%
The Italian industry produced 211,234 tons of biodiesel in the 1st half a year of the current year and second-half output is predicted to be broadly similar, Maria Rosaria Di Somma, director general of the industry body Assocostieri-Unione Produttori Biocarburanti, told Reuters. "The situation is dramatic ... This year we'll produce about 500k tonnes, if everything goes well," Di Somma recounted in an interview on the margins of a green energy meeting, cutting her prior 2011 output prediction of six hundred thousand tonnes. Italian biodiesel makers, who use typically imported raw materials including palm oil and rapeseed, have been hit hard during the past two years by inexpensive imports which often cost significantly less than the components, industry leaders say. Italy produced 731,844 tons of biodiesel last year when it imported 639,684 tons of the fuel to meet a demand of roughly 1.3 million tonnes, according to info on the Assocostieri site. ( www.assocostieri.it ). Biodiesel imports are predicted to cover 2/3rds of Italy's 2011 biofuel demand predicted at roughly 1.5 million tonnes, with the less expensive imports coming principally from Argentina, Canada, Indonesia, Malaysia and the U. S. , Di Somma recounted. Many Italian biodiesel makers have postponed output waiting on an improvement of market conditions. Sector-wide capacity function is at present guestimated at 30-40 p.c, she claimed.
Italy's biodiesel capacity, including plants under assembly and idled plants, is about 2.4 million tonnes a year, the Assocostieri info showed. A considerable number of EU biodiesel refiners are probably going to close down in coming months under stress from imports, industry commentators say. Compulsory TARGETS Biofuels demand is decided by Italy's compulsory targets for its use in automobile fuel, part of the ECU struggle with global warming.
Biodiesel accounts for lion's share of biofuels use in Italy. The compulsory share of biofuels in auto fuel is 4.0 % for 2011 and will rise to 4.5 % in 2012 and 5.0 p.c by 2014. Italy has still to outline steps beyond 2014 to reach a ten p.c target for biofuels use set for 2020 by Brussels. Nor has it issued decrees critical to bring state rules in accordance with ECU ones, Di Somma recounted. "The situation is going to become worse from Jan first of 2012 when validation of ( biofuels ) supportability will become necessary," she announced. Italy lags behind many rival biofuel producers which have just set up nationwide authorization systems to meet ECU standards and that is probably going to boost inflows of imported biofuel into Italy next year, Di Somma declared. Biodiesel imports to Italy covered 51 % of the target-driven biofuels sales in 2010, up from thirty six p.c in 2009, the Assocostieri info showed.
Italy's biodiesel capacity, including plants under assembly and idled plants, is about 2.4 million tonnes a year, the Assocostieri info showed. A considerable number of EU biodiesel refiners are probably going to close down in coming months under stress from imports, industry commentators say. Compulsory TARGETS Biofuels demand is decided by Italy's compulsory targets for its use in automobile fuel, part of the ECU struggle with global warming.
Biodiesel accounts for lion's share of biofuels use in Italy. The compulsory share of biofuels in auto fuel is 4.0 % for 2011 and will rise to 4.5 % in 2012 and 5.0 p.c by 2014. Italy has still to outline steps beyond 2014 to reach a ten p.c target for biofuels use set for 2020 by Brussels. Nor has it issued decrees critical to bring state rules in accordance with ECU ones, Di Somma recounted. "The situation is going to become worse from Jan first of 2012 when validation of ( biofuels ) supportability will become necessary," she announced. Italy lags behind many rival biofuel producers which have just set up nationwide authorization systems to meet ECU standards and that is probably going to boost inflows of imported biofuel into Italy next year, Di Somma declared. Biodiesel imports to Italy covered 51 % of the target-driven biofuels sales in 2010, up from thirty six p.c in 2009, the Assocostieri info showed.
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Albania Plan to Produce Biodiesel
Albanian PM Sali Berisha inaugurated on Fri. a biodiesel production plant in Porto Romano, a joint Italo-Albanian investment of 5,000,000. The plant has a production capacity of 100,000 tons every year and will employ 120 folk. Albanian P. M. Sali Berisha announced the investment is a major step toward transforming Albania into a producer of biofuels. Berisha announced that Albania will shortly become an exporter of biodiesel to Italy and Europe, adding this investment demonstrates the successfulness of attempts to turn Albania into a tasty country for foreign investments. Berisha also stressed the significance his cupboard places on the environment and green technology.
Monday, July 4, 2011
Petrobras purchased a biodiesel plant in Rio Grande do Sul
Petrobras purchased a biodiesel plant in Rio Grande do Sul found next to a fuel distribution base and a railroad terminal for receiving grain and shipping fuel. The plant uses integrated plant oil extraction and produces about 42 million gallons biodiesel yearly. Last week, Petrobas' controlled subsidiary Petrobras Biocombustvel S.A.
Pbio purchased a fifty percent percentage in BSBIOS Indstria e Comrcio de Biodiesel Sul Brasil S.A, which owns the biodiesel plant, for roughly $128 million. Petrobras claimed the purchase will consolidate its position in the domestic biofuels sector.
Pbio purchased a fifty percent percentage in BSBIOS Indstria e Comrcio de Biodiesel Sul Brasil S.A, which owns the biodiesel plant, for roughly $128 million. Petrobras claimed the purchase will consolidate its position in the domestic biofuels sector.
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Double Take on Biodiesel Fuel
Detroit's empty lots, with some home grown high technology innovation, may help juice up Michigan's flagging biodiesel industry in next year. As in the remainder of the country, biodiesel production in Michigan ground to a halt during the past couple of years thanks to high feedstock costs, comparatively low petrol costs and a short lived lapse in Fed. contributions. But as oil costs rise, analysts and refiners hope 2011 will mark a new start for the industry with discoveries in non-food feedstocks and refining technologies. Congress passed a mandate earlier in the year requiring the utilising of eight hundred million gallons of biomass-based diesel in 2011 and one bn.
Michigan has 4 commercial biodiesel refineries, none being making fuel at this time because the cost of soy oil, the feedstock of preference makes it cost-prohibitive. However, Bryan Ritchie with Michigan State University's Bioeconomy Network asserts the cycle of public interest in biodiesel use is related to gas pump costs. "Since the '70s, increased gas prices equaled increased interest in biofuels," he announced. "Then gas costs go back down and everything grinds to a halt. Now that diesel fuel is up, we'll see the cycle ramp up again." regardless of the decline in production, or maybe due to it, Michigan producers and analysts are on the lookout for workable feedstock alternate choices to soy oil together with cleaner, better paths to produce biodiesel. Two extraordinarily different but related projects are continuing in metro Detroit -- one at the grass-roots level, the other extremely hi-tech. Pennycress, a standard weed, has for a while been looked at as a biofuel feedstock. Jim Padilla, owner of the Power Alternative, an idled biodiesel refinery in Warren, Mich, sees an extra potential for the plant. Padilla recounted the crops might be grown on empty land in central Detroit and would serve a twin purpose -- manufacturing fine quality biodiesel and remediating land tarnished with heavy metals. Pennycress naturally soaks up heavy metals as it grows, Padilla claims, thru a technique known as phytoremediation. Because Detroit was once home to a couple of lead smelters, lots of the empty land is polluted. By growing pennycress for biodiesel, over time the sites would be cleaned up.
As for viability, Padilla explains it would most probably must be financed, but would be significantly cheaper than other remediation options.
"The alternative is to dig and haul [the tarnished soil] and move it somewhere else," related Padilla, whose dad, a previous president of Ford Motor Co, is chair of the board of the Power Alternative. "That cost is about $250,000 per acre. You can spend it there or you can phytoremediate, create roles, clean it up, make biomass for power and produce biodiesel." To explore the chances, Padilla has started collaborating with local setups the College of Detroit-Mercy and Michigan State School , which was just awarded $2.9 million for biofuels research by the U.S.
Another promising project occurring in Detroit is at startup NextCAT, The project involves a new class of biodiesel catalysts developed at the Nationwide Biofuels Energy Lab at close by Wayne State College and approved to NextCAT for exploitation. According to Charles Salley, Head honcho of NextCat, the catalysts target moderate- to high- free greasy acid ( FFA ) feedstocks , for example waste grease, instead of dearer low-FFA feedstocks , for example soy oil. "The challenge is that first generation biodiesel plants are made for soy, but the cost of soy is still too high," Salley asserted. "My conjecture is that over the long run, feedstocks will have moderate to high FFAs, and we think our catalysts are the best hope. But the interesting news is our catalysts will work with low-FFA feedstocks, too." Salley also noted that thanks to the chemical makeup of the catalysts, they have longer helpful lives and are more easy to separate from the refined product.
Therefore the refining process is shorter and more cost effective, and the final product and spinoffs are cleaner. Take glycerin, a side-effect of biodiesel refining that is employed in the production of pharmaceuticals, foods, private care products and antifreeze. Current glycerin produced is considered crude grade and needs processing to become a serviceable product. Salley related the new catalysts help produce a cleaner grade of glycerin, making it a more valuable derivative. NextCAT is expecting to launch a pilot soon, followed by a demonstration at an existing biodiesel refinery by the end of 2011.
Michigan has 4 commercial biodiesel refineries, none being making fuel at this time because the cost of soy oil, the feedstock of preference makes it cost-prohibitive. However, Bryan Ritchie with Michigan State University's Bioeconomy Network asserts the cycle of public interest in biodiesel use is related to gas pump costs. "Since the '70s, increased gas prices equaled increased interest in biofuels," he announced. "Then gas costs go back down and everything grinds to a halt. Now that diesel fuel is up, we'll see the cycle ramp up again." regardless of the decline in production, or maybe due to it, Michigan producers and analysts are on the lookout for workable feedstock alternate choices to soy oil together with cleaner, better paths to produce biodiesel. Two extraordinarily different but related projects are continuing in metro Detroit -- one at the grass-roots level, the other extremely hi-tech. Pennycress, a standard weed, has for a while been looked at as a biofuel feedstock. Jim Padilla, owner of the Power Alternative, an idled biodiesel refinery in Warren, Mich, sees an extra potential for the plant. Padilla recounted the crops might be grown on empty land in central Detroit and would serve a twin purpose -- manufacturing fine quality biodiesel and remediating land tarnished with heavy metals. Pennycress naturally soaks up heavy metals as it grows, Padilla claims, thru a technique known as phytoremediation. Because Detroit was once home to a couple of lead smelters, lots of the empty land is polluted. By growing pennycress for biodiesel, over time the sites would be cleaned up.
As for viability, Padilla explains it would most probably must be financed, but would be significantly cheaper than other remediation options.
"The alternative is to dig and haul [the tarnished soil] and move it somewhere else," related Padilla, whose dad, a previous president of Ford Motor Co, is chair of the board of the Power Alternative. "That cost is about $250,000 per acre. You can spend it there or you can phytoremediate, create roles, clean it up, make biomass for power and produce biodiesel." To explore the chances, Padilla has started collaborating with local setups the College of Detroit-Mercy and Michigan State School , which was just awarded $2.9 million for biofuels research by the U.S.
Another promising project occurring in Detroit is at startup NextCAT, The project involves a new class of biodiesel catalysts developed at the Nationwide Biofuels Energy Lab at close by Wayne State College and approved to NextCAT for exploitation. According to Charles Salley, Head honcho of NextCat, the catalysts target moderate- to high- free greasy acid ( FFA ) feedstocks , for example waste grease, instead of dearer low-FFA feedstocks , for example soy oil. "The challenge is that first generation biodiesel plants are made for soy, but the cost of soy is still too high," Salley asserted. "My conjecture is that over the long run, feedstocks will have moderate to high FFAs, and we think our catalysts are the best hope. But the interesting news is our catalysts will work with low-FFA feedstocks, too." Salley also noted that thanks to the chemical makeup of the catalysts, they have longer helpful lives and are more easy to separate from the refined product.
Therefore the refining process is shorter and more cost effective, and the final product and spinoffs are cleaner. Take glycerin, a side-effect of biodiesel refining that is employed in the production of pharmaceuticals, foods, private care products and antifreeze. Current glycerin produced is considered crude grade and needs processing to become a serviceable product. Salley related the new catalysts help produce a cleaner grade of glycerin, making it a more valuable derivative. NextCAT is expecting to launch a pilot soon, followed by a demonstration at an existing biodiesel refinery by the end of 2011.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Non Food Biodiesel Will be Sold in Ten Years
Non Food Biodiesel Will be Sold in Ten Years. biodiesel fuel Second generation, which are derived from non-food crops will begin to market in about ten years, said Mercedes Ballesteros, head of Biomass the Centre for Energy, Environment and Technology (CIEMAT).
These new biodiesel fuel will be produced from non-food biomass such as cereal straw, wood waste, municipal solid waste and even vegetable oil treated with hydrogen, a cheap raw materials and no other applications to replace the plants fit for human consumption used today.
Spain has a plant using feedstock cereal straw. Beatriz Alvarez, of the section biofuels of the Association of Energy Producers Renewable (APPA ) , believes that first biofuels nonfood will trade in a couple of years, while the researcher Enrique Espí see this technology as a simple transition to fuel from algae .
The truth is that the Plan Action for Renewable Energy prepared by the Government does not foresee a production significant of biofuels from second generation to 2018 and also does not specify the percentage to be mixed with the fossils .
Some experts, like Professor Ballesteros, argue that biodiesel second-generation can be used " at very high and even pure " , while others, as a spy, suggest that the composition of biodiesel and bioethanol " is the same, come from which comes " and , therefore, works the same.
According Espí, technology for developing second generation biofuels is already available, but now the problem is to produce large quantities and, above all, do it profitably.
The future, experts say, is in the production of biodiesel from algae, since they contain large quantities of oil , are easy to grow and cheap.
These new biodiesel fuel will be produced from non-food biomass such as cereal straw, wood waste, municipal solid waste and even vegetable oil treated with hydrogen, a cheap raw materials and no other applications to replace the plants fit for human consumption used today.
Spain has a plant using feedstock cereal straw. Beatriz Alvarez, of the section biofuels of the Association of Energy Producers Renewable (APPA ) , believes that first biofuels nonfood will trade in a couple of years, while the researcher Enrique Espí see this technology as a simple transition to fuel from algae .
The truth is that the Plan Action for Renewable Energy prepared by the Government does not foresee a production significant of biofuels from second generation to 2018 and also does not specify the percentage to be mixed with the fossils .
Some experts, like Professor Ballesteros, argue that biodiesel second-generation can be used " at very high and even pure " , while others, as a spy, suggest that the composition of biodiesel and bioethanol " is the same, come from which comes " and , therefore, works the same.
According Espí, technology for developing second generation biofuels is already available, but now the problem is to produce large quantities and, above all, do it profitably.
The future, experts say, is in the production of biodiesel from algae, since they contain large quantities of oil , are easy to grow and cheap.
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