http://www.recyclingnewsportal.com/Latest Recycling technology and waste management news articlesenrecycling News Portalrecycling News Portalhttp://www.recyclingnewsportal.com/recycling_article9515.htmlWed, 13 Jan 2010 15:26:25 GMTSyntec Biofuel Inc. has entered into a joint development program with the Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) at the University of North Dakota (UND) in Grand Forks for converting a wide variety of biomass and waste into bio-butanol. The core process utilizes Syntec's high-performance catalyst technology in conjunction with an upgrading process exclusively licensed from the EERC Foundati ... [more] http://www.recyclingnewsportal.com/recycling_article9493.htmlWed, 16 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMTUtilizing cellulosic materials to produce biofuels has several advantages. Cellulosic materials such as wood, grasses, or the nonedible parts of crops, including wheat straw, soybean hulls, and corn cobs, are vast and diverse feedstocks compared to first-generation feedstocks like corn starch or sugarcane. In addition, cellulosic fuels promise to become the lowest-cost biofuel while at the same ti ... [more]