Technology
Oman pilots recycled water to grow biofuel crop camelina
Nama Water Services has launched a pilot project in Oman to grow camelina, a crop widely used in biofuel production, using recycled water. The initiative is being carried out in partnership with Hema Energy. The project supports Nama's sustainability strategy…
Lignopure brings lignin out of the waste stream and into cosmetics, coatings
Lignin has spent decades as industry's leftover. Pulp and paper mills produce more than 50 million tonnes of it a year. Most of it gets burned for fuel instead of put to higher use. Hamburg-based Lignopure wants to change that.…
Spanish researchers turn coffee waste into biofuel
Researchers at Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) in Spain have developed a new method to turn spent coffee grounds into a raw material for biofuel production. The process could offer a cleaner alternative to how coffee waste is currently handled.…
New tech turns ethanol waste into bio-acetone
Lallemand Biofuels & Distilled Spirits and Braskem have announced a new technology platform that lets corn ethanol producers generate bio-acetone alongside their ethanol output. The system combines an engineered yeast strain with a separation process to recover the coproduct without…
New pest repellent made from biomass waste
Japanese green tech company Green Science Alliance has developed a pest repellent made from carbon quantum dots synthesized from organic waste. The materials include wood, plant, and food waste. Quantum dots are nanoparticles just a few atoms wide. Their tiny…
New sensor tech tracks enzyme activity in real time
Researchers at Iowa State University have developed a bioreactor system that uses artificial intelligence to monitor and optimize enzyme production. The project, backed by Novonesis and funded by Schmidt Sciences, ran from 2023 to 2026. The team built a reinforcement…