Touch Button Control of Fuel Ethanol Fermentation
Fuel ethanol producers are quietly getting on with the essential job of making sustainable fuel and what’s more, they’re improving the process all the time, writes Richard Mills from the Danish manufacturer of analytical equipment, Foss.

Fine-tuning Growth Conditions for Biofuel Microbes
US - Cyanobacteria are among the oldest living forms in nature, responsible for generating the atmospheric oxygen we breathe today. Now Hyun Woo Kim and Raveender Vannela, researchers at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University are perfecting...

New Yeast Makes More Cellulosic Ethanol
Purdue University scientists have improved a strain of yeast that can produce more biofuel from cellulosic plant material by fermenting all five types of the plant's sugars.

BioIsoprene - a Renewable Product with Biofuel Potential
Developments in the renewable fuels field have seen the emergence of new compounds and polymers that not only boost ethanol and biodiesel production, but also enable the sustainable production of many other products that would otherwise use petroleum...

Increasing Efficiency of Bioethanol Production from Starch
A new control strategy for bio-ethanol production from renewable source (starch) is proposed by a research team at ICSR-BAS - the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

Storing Green Electricity as Natural Gas
Renewable electricity can be transformed into a substitute for natural gas. Until now, electricity was generated from gas. Now, a German-Austrian cooperation wants to go in the opposite direction.

Solar-powered Irrigation in West Africa
Solar-powered irrigation that delivers water directly to plant roots could help ensure food security in Africa, say researchers.

Moving from an Oil Economy to a Bioeconomy
The question of sustainability is becoming one of the major driving forces in the agriculture, livestock and farming industry, writes TheBioenergySite Senior Editor, Chris Harris.

Biofuel Options Expand as Science Taps New Sources
Scientists are making progress in developing biofuels with a range of methods and an assortment of feedstocks, according to the US Department of Energy.

Could Generating Energy from Waste be the Answer?
Scientists at Teesside University are helping to find answers to one of the most difficult problems facing the world today - generating energy without accelerating climate change or harming food production.

Microbes Produce Fuels Directly from Biomass
A collaboration led by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) has developed a microbe that can produce an advanced biofuel directly from biomass.

Energy Yield from Biogas Can be Improved
With online monitoring of different parameters in the biogas production, the energy yield of this climate-friendly energy source can be optimised, according to research at Aarhus University Faculty of Agricultural Sciences.

USDA Scientists, Cooperators Sequence Soy Genome
Foundation research that has been successful in sequencing most of the soy genome will help improve soybeans and other legumes.

Microbubbles Win Awards
A paper about the design of an air-lift loop bioreactor, which exploits a recent patent by two of the co-authors (Zimmerman and Tesar, WO2008053174) for the energy-efficient generation of microbubbles and revolutionising the potential production of biofuels,...

Using Pigs to Grow Tomatoes with Biogas
An innovative eco-friendly pig farm of the future is the dream of a Danish pig farmer, Soren Hansen and the concept of a PhD architecture student, Nee Rentz Petersen, writes TheBioenergySite senior editor, Chris Harris.