In Qatar, Qatar Airways, Qatar Science & Technology Park, Qatar Petroleum and Airbus announced theestablishment of the Qatar Advanced Biofuel Platform, which will prepare a detailed engineering and implementation plan for economically viable and sustainable biofuel production, a biofuel investment strategy, and an advanced technology development program. Last October, Qatar Airways successfully conducted the world’s [...]

Advancements in catalyst and membrane technology are increasing the productivity and efficiency of Biomass to Liquids production in the race to commercialization. Here is an overview of the latest announcements in Green Car Congress for March and April 2010 alone: University of South Florida Researchers developed a new cobalt silica-supported eggshell design catalyst to optimize [...]

Biomass to liquids is gaining momentum across Europe and around the world, with many high profile investments from regulators and the private sector, especially from the aviation industry: “Accelergy Corporation has begun production of a synthetic fuel from coal and biomass, to be evaluated by the United States Air Force (USAF) as the industry benchmark [...]