Renewable diesel processing, materials and corrosion challenges for unfamiliar feedstocks are the focus of a roundtable discussion to be hosted by the Materials Technology Institute (MTI) on June 21.

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) developed a system to convert methane into a deep green, energy-rich, gelatin-like substance that can be used as the basis for biofuels and other bioproducts, specialty chemicals and even animal feed.

Enerkem Inc.’s first full-scale commercial biofuel facility in Edmonton, Alberta, is producing methanol from household waste.

High capacity rotary dryers can be used to extract combustible materials from a seawater-and-algae slurry for the production of biofuels.

Valmet Corp. will supply a wood-chip-fired heating plant to Tampereen Energiantuotanto Oy, Tampere, Finland.

Biofuels offer several advantages — economic, environmental and practical — compared to traditional fuel sources.

The Valmet-supplied gasification plant at Gothenburg Biomass Gasification Project (GoBiGas) was inaugurated on March 12 in Gothenburg.