Gevo, a maker of biofuels, sued DuPont and its business partner Butamax Advanced Biofuels in federal court in Delaware, alleging infringement of a new patent for alcohol-fermentation processes.

DuPont Biofuels on track to commercialize its biofuel technologies, including biobutanol and cellulosic ethanol This week at the Piper Jaffray Alternative Energy Symposium, which focused on ...

One limitation of producing biofuel is that the alcohol created by fermentation is toxic to the microbes that produce it. Now scientists are closer to overcoming this obstacle.

In 2017, DuPont closed a cellulose-based ethanol plant in Nevada, Iowa. The chemical maker had spent $200 million on a fermentation process that turned corn cobs, stalks, and leaves into the fuel ...

The second category of advanced biofuel is the one presently of greatest interest in the U.S., and that is cellulosic ethanol. Conventional ethanol production utilizes a fermentation process to ...

DuPont has benefited mightily from the growth of corn ethanol because of the role of its Pioneer Hybrid division in supplying farmers with genetically modified seed.

Butamax Advanced Biofuels settlement with Gevo Inc. clears way for production of ethanol replacement.

Indiana University scientists have created a "nano-reactor" by modifying a virus to protect and encapsulate an enzyme that breaks down H2O into hydrogen and oxygen. The results of this process ...

When we last wrote about Bunge, a "vertically integrated food and feed ingredient company", they were offering biofuel advice to Renewable Energy Group. When we last visited chemical giant DuPont ...

US researcher have built an easy-to-use portable system that converts your waste into diesel fuel. The system can produce 100 to 200 litres of biofuel a day.

'Nano-reactor' created for the production of hydrogen biofuel Combining bacterial genes, virus shell creates a highly efficient, renewable material used in generating power from water ...