Sentences with word «biocrude»

PNNL estimates that a single person could generate two to three gallons of biocrude per year.

It may sound like science fiction, but wastewater treatment plants across the United States may one day turn ordinary sewage into biocrude oil, thanks to new research at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Utah - based Genifuel Corp. has licensed the technology and built a pilot plant for its partner, Reliance Industries Ltd., to create biocrude oil from algae.

Utah - based Genifuel Corp. licensed the technology and built a pilot plant for its partner, Reliance Industries Ltd., to create biocrude oil from algae.

Algae is a viable feedstock for first - generation biodiesel and ethanol production plants, and is a promising resource for producing aviation fuels and biocrude for biogasoline, said Will Thurmond, president of Emerging Markets Online.

The Carthage, Missouri, facility was designed to be the world's first biomass - to - biocrude refinery, equipped to turn just about anything with a string of carbon atoms — from unrecyclable plastic and municipal garbage to animal - processing waste — into road - ready diesel.

«The fats or lipids appear to facilitate the conversion of other materials in the wastewater such as toilet paper, keep the sludge moving through the reactor, and produce a very high quality biocrude that, when refined, yields fuels such as gasoline, diesel and jet fuels.»

Conventional fossil fuel takes millions of years to form, but a determined niche of modern alchemists are vastly accelerating the process to brew biocrude, a fuel similar to petroleum that is produced in less than two months from agricultural or municipal waste.

During the first three months of 2008, CWT's biocrude fetched just $ 0.99 per gallon.

A comprehensive review of biofuel options by the independent U.K. Renewable Fuels Agency, released in July 2008, concluded that operational challenges and low - quality fuel would keep biocrude on the margins of world fuel supplies until 2020 at the earliest.

But the scope of CWT's biocrude effort — turning anything into oil — may be too much for one small start - up, he says.

«Renewable diesel from waste will emerge as a key biofuel process, while butanol and biocrude producers have the flexibility to sell into the chemicals market, and their effect on overall biofuel capacity remains minor.»

Tesoro Corporation plans to foster the development of biocrude, made from renewable biomass, which can be co-processed in its existing refineries along with conventional fossil crude oil to produce lower - carbon drop - in fuels.

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But Changing World Technologies» experience at Carthage — where the feedstock is tons of turkey parts from the nearby Con Agra Foods Butterball Turkey slaughterhouse — has yet to demonstrate the economics of biocrude.

This biocrude can then be refined using conventional petroleum refining operations.

In addition to the biocrude, the liquid phase can be treated with a catalyst to create other fuels and chemical products.

The heat and pressure cause the cells of the waste material to break down into different fractions — biocrude and an aqueous liquid phase.

Even with a federal biofuels subsidy of $ 1 per gallon added in, the plant earned less from its biocrude sales in that quarter than it paid Butterball for its turkey leftovers.

The limited success of Changing World Technologies (CWT), a biocrude pioneer first chronicled by DISCOVER in May 2003, reveals that there are more challenges than meet the eye in creating an environment - friendly, economically viable waste - to - fuel industry.

In another approach, his group has demonstrated in the lab all the chemical reactions necessary to turn biomass such as corn fiber into biocrude, an intermediate product on the way to gasoline and diesel fuel, he says, although the reactions are not yet efficient enough to operate on a large scale.

He anticipates commercialization of algal biofuels in 2011 — 2012 and predicted that «by 2020, algae will become a mainstream commodity for biocrude, ethanol, and renewable diesel fuels.»

Tesoro Corporation plans to foster the development of biocrude, made from renewable biomass, which can be co-processed in its existing refineries along with conventional fossil crude oil to produce lower - carbon drop - in fuels.

Tesoro expects that converting renewable biomass into biocrude will enable existing refining assets to produce fuels with lower... Read more →