News tagged with pilot plant

Italian engineer invents floating solar panels

Rays of the winter sun bounce off gleaming mirrors on the tiny lake of Colignola in Italy, where engineers have built a cost-effective prototype for floating, rotating solar panels.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 6

Geothermal heating system draws on limitless fuel: sewage

Among the many renewable energy sources - wind, solar, hydroelectric, biofuels - there is one to which we all contribute that has not yet managed to attract the romantic advocates who have embraced other forms of green energy.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Process could improve economics of ethanol production

(PhysOrg.com) -- Iowa State University's Hans van Leeuwen has moved his research team's award-winning idea for improving ethanol production from a laboratory to a pilot plant.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 20, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Algae may be sustainable alternative for animal feed

The pigs and poultry in Professor Xingen Lei's lab have been consuming feed one wouldn't expect in Ithaca: marine algae.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Fuel from market waste

Mushy tomatoes, brown bananas and overripe cherries -- to date, waste from wholesale markets has ended up on the compost heap at best. In future it will be put to better use: Researchers have developed a new ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

How algae could change your world (or at least your car)

Will we soon be fueling our cars, applying cosmetics and eating food - all made from algae? That's the rather science-fiction-y premise of the new cluster of companies (many of them based in San Diego, home of the San ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jul 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

New methods for better purification of wastewater

Before wastewater reaches recipient waters, nutrients must be removed in order to avoid eutrophication and large algal blooms, which may result in serious damage to animal and plant life. Robert Almstrand at the University ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Making batteries last longer in electric vehicles

A potentially ‘green’ energy storage device which will help to power electric transport is to be officially launched at The University of Nottingham’s Malaysia Campus (UNMC) this week.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jan 10, 2011 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Lowering the color of crystals in sugar factories

Like diamonds, sugar crystals ideally are very pure and low in color. Now studies led by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) chemist Gillian Eggleston have provided a better understanding of the source of undesirable color ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jun 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Improved biofuels with new plant

A new pilot biomass processing plant at the University of Sydney gives researchers an opportunity to improve biofuel production, taking it a step closer to becoming a commercially viable, sustainable energy ...

Biology / Other

created Sep 14, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0