A grant, worth $98,560, has been given to researchers at Kansas State University to study solid carriers for manufacturing algae biofuels in the ocean. The grant, awarded to Zhijian Z.J. Pei, associate professor of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering, and

by Barbara L. MicaleBiométhodes, a French biotechnology company in Evry, has signed an exclusive and worldwide option-to-license agreement with Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties Inc. (VTIP) for multiple technologies for converting biomass to bioethanol and biohydrogen.The processes were invented by Percival

A trio of new ASTM specifications for biodiesel blends was approved by the organization's main committee last week (20th June). The final approval came after more than five years of extensive research and subsequent balloting by the ASTM fuel experts