BIOFUELS UPCOMING EVENTS

BIOFUELS UPCOMING EVENTS

MONTH	DATE	EVENT	LOCATION
APRIL	8-10	Biofuel Summit & Expo	St Petersburg, Russia
	10	National Algae Association: Algae: the next fuel	Texas, US
	22-24	Biofuel Summit & Expo Espana	Madrid, Spain
	24-26	RENEXPO Central and South-East Europe 2008	Budapest, Hungary
	27-29	2008 Asia International New Energy Technology & Equipment Exhibition	Beijing, China
	28-30	Bioenergy 2008	Bangkok, Thailand
MAY	11-14	Alternative Fuels & Vehicles National Conference & Expo	Las Vegas, US
	14-15	II Monographic conference on jatropha curcas	Madrid, Spain
	19-21	Renewable Energy Finance and Investment Summit	Arizona, US
	20-22	Biofuels markets Americas: 3rd annual congress	Miami, US
	27-29	World Bioenergy 2008: Conference & Exhibition	Jonkoping, Sweden
JUNE	2-6	16th European Biomass Conference & Exhibition	Valencia, Spain
	3-5	BioEnergy Conference and Exhibition 2008	British Columbia, Canada
	4-5	Biofuels International Expo & Conference	Rotterdam, the Netherlands
	9-11	Biofuels Markets Asia	New Delhi, India
	10-11	World Biofuels Forum 2008	Prague, Czech Republic
	10-11	Clean Fuels 2008	Warsaw, Poland
	16-19	Fuel Ethanol Workshop & Expo	Tennessee, US
	23-24	Biofuels 2010	Houston, Texas
JULY	9-11	BioFuels World 2008 Conference & Expo	Yokohama, Japan
AUGUST	21-22	Biofuels Summit India 2008	New Delhi, India
SEPTEMBER	15-17	Alternative Energy Sources & Technologies	Boston, Massachusetts, US
	17-19	International summit on algae biofuels	New Delhi, India
	23-24	Biomass World 2008	Beijing, China
	27-30	World Congress on Oils & Fats	Australia
OCTOBER	1-4	4th International expo: biofuel industry & technology	Rome, Italy
	15-16	StocExpo Asia	Singapore
	15-16	European biofuels expo & conference	Newark, UK
	21-23	Biofuels Summit & Expo	Buenos Aires, Argentina
NOVEMBER	5-8	Biofuels Summit & Expo	Rimini, Italy
	12-13	StocExpo Turkey	Istanbul, Turkey
	18-20	Oil & fats 2008	Muncih, Germany
DECEMBER	2-3	StocExpo South America	Sao Paulo, Brazil
2009
MARCH	16-18	World Biofuels Markets	Brussels, Belgium

     

 

?Why Ethanol

Ethanol is good for your car. Gasoline enriched with ethanol outperforms straight gas is good for the environment. Gasoline enriched with 10% ethanol helps protect air quality by reducing harmful tailpipe emissions by 30%.

Ethanol is good for your community and country.  ethanol production creates tens of thousands of jobs, revitalizes rural communities, and reduces oil consumption thousands barrels per day … and growing.

Ethanol is ethyl alcohol (C₂H₆O), a renewable motor fuel made from corn, other high-starch crops, and cellulose.

Dubai Group invests in southeast Asia's largest biodiesel plant

Dubai Group, a financial services company of Dubai Holding, has invested $49.5 million (€31.2 million) for approximately 30% of Malaysia's GBD Investment (GBDI), the largest biodiesel plant in southeast Asia.

The investment was made by Dubai Ventures, the equity investment company of Dubai Investment Group, a subsidiary of Dubai Group.

GBDI has completed construction and begun production of its 200,000 tonne biodiesel facility at Lahad Datu in the state of Sabah, Malaysia. The company is preparing to begin construction on its phase II facility, which will increase GBDI's biodiesel production capacity to 500,000 tonnes a year. GBD's plant has the ability to use both palm oil and jatropha as feedstock.

GBDI's facility will produce biodiesel and pharma-grade glycerine under the European (EN) and US (ASTM) standards for the Korean as well as global markets. GBD has already signed off-take agreements for all of its production.

'Biofuels and renewable energy are the preferred industry focus for Dubai Investment Group, and we intend to bring this technology to the geographic regions, especially the Middle East, where we currently have a presence,' Abdulhakeem Kamkar, CEO of Dubai Investment Group, says.

GBDI intends to use the proceeds from the recent placement for working capital in the Lahad Datu biodiesel plant and its investment into jatropha plantations in the Philippines. The plantation, which will cover up to 200,000 hectares, will have a potential annual production of 750,000 tonnes of crude jatropha oil.

Enzymes used in Biogas Plants can increase the Profitpotential

PRLog (Press Release)  – Enzymes used in Biogas Plants can increase the Profitpotential more than 35 percent

Biogas Plants is fast growing Market worldwide. High tech plants can be very profitable
through converging Nano- and Biotechnology for the gas cleaning process and use Enzymes which are the focal point of the biotechnological process to make profit.

Biogas power plants are a combination of anaerobic digestion systems with associated electricity generators such as gas turbines or gas engines. The electricity they produce is classified as renewable or green energy and if sold into the national grid attract subsidies.
In the last 20 years, biogas utilization been successful in wastewater treatment plants, industrial processing applications, landfill and the agricultural sector. The future increase use of biogas is a strong goal in most countries, not only because is it a renewable energy source but it will help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, water pollution and soil degradation and last not least it will change agriculture sectors in many countries worldwide to produce partly energy.

The production of electricity is the main mode of biogas utilization in the future but the key factor for profit is the process optimization, gas cleaning and biotechnology.
There are 12 000 Plants higher than 100 KW worldwide in 2006 but 40 percent are not
profitable today, mainly because operation knowledge is poor. Up to 2030 there will be build more than 250 000 plants and the market will reach 43 billion US Dollar in 2030,
after a recent released study by helmut kaiser consultancy, http://www.hkc22.com/biogas.html
There is a substancial potenzial to increase yield and productivity of biogas production
with the optimization of the substrates and the use of enzymes which increase the
cost - benefit ratio from averige today 1 to 4 up to 1:8 and make a plant highly profitable. Offering the whole value chain is a vital factor for the companies to be competitive in the future.
Biogas is part of renewable energies (http://www.hkc22.com/renewableenergy.html ) worldwide.
The total energy mix of the future will be more regenerative and sustainable. The generation and storage of renewable energy will be the fastest growing sector in energy market for next 20 years. The market volume of renewable energy worldwide will increase from US$ 95.8 billion in 2007 to US$ 124.4 billion in 2010 and reach US$ 198.1 billion in 2015. These figures and developments are based on the whole value chain.

Universal protocol for generating 100bp size standard for endles

Developing countries are facing severe bottlenecks in the technological advancement in biotechnology, due to restrictions imposed by patent protected products and protocols. This calls for designing of simple and cost-effective alternatives for the indispensable products like DNA molecular weight markers. We demonstrate a novel, rapid and cost-effective method of making in-house 100bp ladder for routine use. In our method we use a single forward primer and five reverse primers designed on the backbone sequence of a commonly used vector template. These primers are used at a universal annealing temperature to

amplify ten DNA fragments of accurate size ranging from 100bp to 1000bp

Check the original link below

http://ejbiotechnology.ucv.cl/content/vol11/issue2/full/10/index.html

A Great Step for Iran

ISFAHAN, Iran - Iranian scientists said  that the country's first cloned sheep is thriving 15 months after birth, eating well and frolicking among a flock of normal sheep. The cloned male sheep named Royana was born Sept. 30, 2006 in the historic central city of Isfahan, less than two months after the country's first cloned animal, also a lamb, died within minutes of birth.

But unlike it's predecessor, Royana survived the postnatal complications typical for cloned animals and is now celebrated as Iran's scientific breakthrough and achievement.

The effort is part of Iran's quest to become a regional high-tech powerhouse in western Asia by 2025. Tehran has also launched an ambitious space program, while its controversial uranium enrichment has the West worried it is masking Iran's attempts to build a nuclear weapon.

"Royana is a successful scientific achievement. We are all proud of it. The sheep is the result of many years of efforts in stem cell research," Mohammad Hossein Nasr e Isfahani, head of the Royan Research Institute in Isfahan told The Associated Press on Monday.

Isfahani, an embryologist whose team oversaw Royana's birth and that of its cloned predecessor, said his institute conducted 30 successful stem cell transfers but that only two led to birth.

His team members say that out of 10 animal cloning pregnancies, only one or two can be expected to lead to birth.

In 1996, British scientists made international headlines with Dolly, the first cloned sheep, which lived six years.

With Royana, Iran became the first country in the Middle East that publicly announced it cloned a sheep. Last September, Turkey reported cloning its first animal, also a sheep.

But rapid progress in stem cell research and genetics have raised widespread debates about ethics and the boundaries of medicine.

Scientists say the cloning — a process that creates a genetically identical copy — of sheep and other animals could lead to advances in medical research, including using cloned animals to produce human antibodies against diseases.

Iran's cloning program has won backing from the Shiite Muslim religious leaders, who have issued decrees authorizing animal cloning but banning human reproductive cloning. A majority of Iran's nearly 70 million people are Shiite Muslims.

In contrast, Sunni Muslim religious leaders — including senior clerics in Saudi Arabia — have banned cloning altogether, even in animals.

At a grazing land outside Isfahan, Royana was serenely frolicking about with some 400 other sheep. The herd and its shepherd were apparently not bothered by the fact the pasture was just 20 kilometers (14 miles) away from the Isfahan uranium conversion plant, one of the two main bases of the country's enrichment program.

"Royana is very powerful. He fights well to protect his realm in the pasture," said shepherd Abdolmalek Nourzehi.

Isfahani, the embryologist, said his institute plans more experiments in genetics and stem cell research in the future — using animal cells.

"We are now in the early stages of cloning a cow," he said. "It is not important for us how many animals we clone, what is important is that we have achieved proficiency in cloning."

Isfahani said Iranian researchers would never try to clone a human being because it's banned. "It is neither ethical nor allowed under our laws," he said.

Isfahani's institute has also a key role in preserving stem cells of endangered species.

"There is a type of sheep believed to be on the brink of extinction here," Isfahani said. "We keep their stem cells here to produce their copies if necessary some day."

بیوگاز - قسمت اول

فعلا قصد ندارم به تاریخچه و ضرورت استفاده از بیوگاز بپردازم و ترجیح میدم در خصوص نکات فنی و جزئیات فن آوری بیو گاز مطالبی را بنویسم .

هممونطور که می دونید دو نوع عمده از گاز در جهان استفاده می شه:

1.       گاز مایع (ال.پی.جی) که از پالایش محصولات نفتی بدست میاد

2.       گاز طبیعی  که از منابع گاز مستقل حاصل میشه.

نوع دیگری از گاز که بعلت ارزانی و پاک بودن مورد توجه سیاست گذارا قرار گرفته بیوگاز یا گاز زیستی است.

بیوگاز از تجزیه مواد حاصل از میکروارگانیسم ها در غیاب اکسیژن حاصل میشه که بعلت قابلیت اشتعال خوبش از اون بعنوان سوخت زیستی یا Bio Fuel  استفاده می کنند.

این بیوگاز میتونه از تخمیر گندابها ، فاضلابها و یا توده هایی از گیاهان که امروزه به آنها گیاهان انرژی (E-Plant  یا energy crop ) می گویند فرآوری بشوند .دی اکسید کربن و متان از این طریق بدست می آیند.

همچنین بیوگاز میتونه از روشی بنام  Gasification  چوب و یا سایر مواد زیستی بدست بیاد .منو اکسید کربن ،نیتروژن ،هیدروژن و مقادیری متان از این طریق حاصل می شه.