Italy pushes ahead with 'next generation' biofuels from waste. 14 October 2014Last updated at 13:50 ET By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent, BBC News The Crescentino facility is one of the first to turn waste into fuel on a commercial scale Italy will become the first country in Europe to legally require "advanced biofuels" in cars and trucks, the BBC has learned.
Made from waste, the new fuels are said to reduce the amount of land taken out of food production. The world's first commercial scale plant making fuel from straw opened in Italy last year. Biogas. Pipes carrying biogas (foreground), natural gas and condensate Biogas typically refers to a mixture of gases produced by the breakdown of organic matter in the absence of oxygen.
Biogas can be produced from regionally available raw materials such as recycled waste. Call for end to 'throwaway society' Biofuel. A biofuel is a fuel that contains energy from geologically recent carbon fixation.
These fuels are produced from living organisms. Examples of this carbon fixation occur in plants and microalgae. These fuels are made by a biomass conversion (biomass refers to recently living organisms, most often referring to plants or plant-derived materials). This biomass can be converted to convenient energy containing substances in three different ways: thermal conversion, chemical conversion, and biochemical conversion.