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Researcher converts biodiesel-waste glycerol into omega-3 fatty acids

Technology / Energy

created Aug 21, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (30) | comments 1

The typical American diet often lacks omega-3 fatty acids despite clinical research that shows their potential human health benefits. Zhiyou Wen, assistant professor of biological systems engineering in Virginia Tech's College ...





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Nature's own chemical plant

Chemistry /

created Nov 10, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Petroleum is the feedstock for many products in the chemical industry. However, this fossil fuel is becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. Renewable raw materials are an alternative. But can the likes of bioethanol be ...


Dutch researchers make breakthrough in bioethanol production from agricultural waste

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

With the introduction of a single bacterial gene into yeast, researchers from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands achieved three improvements in bioethanol production from agricultural waste material: 'More ...


Glucose to glycerol conversion in long-lived yeast provides anti-aging effects

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 08, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Cell biologists have found a more filling substitute for caloric restriction in extending the life span of simple organisms. In a study published May 8 in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics, researchers from the Univer ...


A 'spoonful of sugar' makes the worms' life span go down

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

If worms are any indication, all the sugar in your diet could spell much more than obesity and type 2 diabetes. Researchers reporting in the November issue of Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication, say it might also b ...


Generating hydrogen from biodiesel waste

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created Nov 27, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (32) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Leeds have a potential solution to the problem of large quantities of low value by-product generated in the synthesis of biodiesel – by turning it into high value hydrogen.


Blueprint from the interior of a catalyst

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Irregularities in industrial catalysts can inhibit the conversion of crude oil, Utrecht University chemists have concluded. They were the first to provide a detailed blueprint of the interior of a commercially used catalyst ...


Bio-crude turns cheap waste into valuable fuel

Bio-crude turns cheap waste into valuable fuel

Chemistry /

created Feb 04, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (30) | comments 0

CSIRO and Monash University have developed a chemical process that turns green waste into a stable bio-crude oil.


Renewable Raw Materials

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created May 29, 2006 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (22) | comments 0

Petroleum and natural gas reserves are getting smaller and smaller. It is thus a real waste to burn up these valuable resources for heat or transportation especially as "black gold" is also the most important starting material ...


Research yields pricey chemicals from biodiesel waste

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created Jun 30, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (15) | comments 0

In a move that promises to change the economics of biodiesel refining, chemical engineers at Rice University have unveiled a set of techniques for cleanly converting problematic biofuels waste into chemicals that fetch a ...


Using microbes for the quick clean up of dirty oil

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Microbiologists from the University of Essex, UK have used microbes to break down and remove toxic compounds from crude oil and tar sands. These acidic compounds persist in the environment, taking up to 10 years to break ...



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