Monday, May 14, 2007
DHL UK investigates use of biodiesel for fleet
DHL investigates the use of biodiesel for its fleet in the UK
11 May 2007
A UK division of the international DHL logistics group, DHL Exel Supply Chain, has started to investigate the possibility of operating its delivery vehicles using 100% biodiesel.
DHL has undertaken this project in partnership with JD Wetherspoon and Argent Energy UK, a producer of biodiesel. The project will involve recycling and re-processing cooking oil...
Test runs on an initial trial vehicle will begin end of May to prove the feasibility and assess maintenance and operational requirements...
Read the full report from here @ Biofuel Review
11 May 2007
A UK division of the international DHL logistics group, DHL Exel Supply Chain, has started to investigate the possibility of operating its delivery vehicles using 100% biodiesel.
DHL has undertaken this project in partnership with JD Wetherspoon and Argent Energy UK, a producer of biodiesel. The project will involve recycling and re-processing cooking oil...
Test runs on an initial trial vehicle will begin end of May to prove the feasibility and assess maintenance and operational requirements...
Read the full report from here @ Biofuel Review
Labels: europe, transportation, uk
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Saturday, April 21, 2007
The first 100 per cent biodiesel tractors arrive in the UK
The first 100 per cent biodiesel tractors arrive in the UK
News - FG | 20 April, 2007, By David Burrows
THE first fleet of tractors in the UK to run on 100 per cent biodiesel have arrived at Cornwall’s Eden Project. The four New Holland machines will emit 70 per cent less carbon dioxide than the ones they replace, and will also cut carbon monoxide emissions by half.
The hope is the 20 litres of fuel each tractor requires daily will be supplied by local oilseed rape growers.
Read the full report from here @ Farmers Guardian
News - FG | 20 April, 2007, By David Burrows
THE first fleet of tractors in the UK to run on 100 per cent biodiesel have arrived at Cornwall’s Eden Project. The four New Holland machines will emit 70 per cent less carbon dioxide than the ones they replace, and will also cut carbon monoxide emissions by half.
The hope is the 20 litres of fuel each tractor requires daily will be supplied by local oilseed rape growers.
Read the full report from here @ Farmers Guardian
Labels: transportation, uk
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Friday, April 20, 2007
£4.2 Million Research Programme into Hydrogen as an Alternative Energy Source
£4.2 Million Research Programme into Hydrogen as an Alternative Energy Source
20 April 2007
Provider: Fuel Cell Today
It has been announced that Imperial College, London has received £4.2 million in grant money to look at using solar energy to produce cost effective hydrogen.
The programme will develop biological and chemical solar driven processes to develop renewable and cost effective methods of producing hydrogen to operate fuel cells.
The College’s Energy Futures Lab receives the funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
Read the full report from here @ Fuel Cell Today
20 April 2007
Provider: Fuel Cell Today
It has been announced that Imperial College, London has received £4.2 million in grant money to look at using solar energy to produce cost effective hydrogen.
The programme will develop biological and chemical solar driven processes to develop renewable and cost effective methods of producing hydrogen to operate fuel cells.
The College’s Energy Futures Lab receives the funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
Read the full report from here @ Fuel Cell Today
Labels: fuel-cells, hydrogen, uk
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Cutting the Carbon Impacts of Waste
Cutting the Carbon Impacts of Waste
A clearer picture of how waste can be managed to reduce its impacts on climate change emerges in new research published today.
The reports anticipate the greenhouse gas effects of the UK’s main waste streams between 2005 and 20311, and assess the different ways of dealing with household garden and food waste2,3.
The ERM report shows that recycling has significant benefits over landfill, particularly in terms of reduced greenhouse gas emissions.
Read the full news report from here @ The A to Z of Building
A clearer picture of how waste can be managed to reduce its impacts on climate change emerges in new research published today.
The reports anticipate the greenhouse gas effects of the UK’s main waste streams between 2005 and 20311, and assess the different ways of dealing with household garden and food waste2,3.
The ERM report shows that recycling has significant benefits over landfill, particularly in terms of reduced greenhouse gas emissions.
Read the full news report from here @ The A to Z of Building
Labels: climate-change, uk, waste
Monday, March 26, 2007
Oxidation stability of biodiesel and blends
Oxidation stability of biodiesel and blends
A standardised quality parameter to avoid motor damage can be easily determined with the highly reliable Biodiesel Rancimat from Metrohm UK. In addition to other alternative fuels such as ethanol, methanol or biogas (methane), fatty acid methyl esters are increasingly found on the market; these are then known as biodiesel, RME (rapeseed oil methyl esters) or FAME (fatty acid methyl esters).
Read more from this article @ Manufacturing Talk
A standardised quality parameter to avoid motor damage can be easily determined with the highly reliable Biodiesel Rancimat from Metrohm UK. In addition to other alternative fuels such as ethanol, methanol or biogas (methane), fatty acid methyl esters are increasingly found on the market; these are then known as biodiesel, RME (rapeseed oil methyl esters) or FAME (fatty acid methyl esters).
Read more from this article @ Manufacturing Talk
Labels: biodiesel, engines, quality, safety, uk
Wave Of Support For Tidal Energy in UK
Wave Of Support For Tidal Energy
23rd March 2007, Carbon Free
Despite key political support, the British Wind Energy Association (BWEA) said it was concerned that this rhetoric is not yet being backed up by long term policy support. It said that the publication of the Marine Bill White Paper provides the overarching framework for planning and consenting marine renewable energy projects but claimed this needs to be backed up by new financial support mechanisms, if the UK is to retain its current global lead.
Read the full report here @ Carbon Free, UK
23rd March 2007, Carbon Free
Despite key political support, the British Wind Energy Association (BWEA) said it was concerned that this rhetoric is not yet being backed up by long term policy support. It said that the publication of the Marine Bill White Paper provides the overarching framework for planning and consenting marine renewable energy projects but claimed this needs to be backed up by new financial support mechanisms, if the UK is to retain its current global lead.
Read the full report here @ Carbon Free, UK
Labels: europe, renewable, tidal, uk
Green business: Ocean Power rides the alternative energy wave
Green business: Ocean Power rides the alternative energy wave
22 March 2007
Lauren MacGillivray, News Reporter
Ocean Power Technologies is to be involved in a scheme to build a power plant on the Cornish coast (UK) by 2008.
The American company uses PowerBuoy® technology to float large buoy-like devices that are loosely tied to the seabed. The buoys capture wave energy through a turbine and send the energy through a cable to the coastline which is then fed into a power grid.
Read the full news report from here @ City Wire
22 March 2007
Lauren MacGillivray, News Reporter
Ocean Power Technologies is to be involved in a scheme to build a power plant on the Cornish coast (UK) by 2008.
The American company uses PowerBuoy® technology to float large buoy-like devices that are loosely tied to the seabed. The buoys capture wave energy through a turbine and send the energy through a cable to the coastline which is then fed into a power grid.
Read the full news report from here @ City Wire
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