Types of Energy


This page lists all the different types of Biofuel Energy. Feel free to browse through our list of Bio Fuel Energy fuels and learn more about carbon neutral and clean energy fuels.

First generation biofuels

Types:

  • Vegetable oil
  • Biodiesel
  • Bioalcohols
  • Bioethers
  • Biogas
  • Syngas
  • Solid biofuels

    • Second generation biofuels

    Created using biomass to liquid technology. There are 15 new highly stable fungal enzyme catalysts that efficiently break down cellulose into sugars at high temperatures adding to an additional 10 previous known methods. Fungus Gliocladium roseum is a recent discovery and will likely be used to speed up the biofuel creation process along with recombinant DNA genetic engineering organisms.

    Types:

  • cellulosic biofuels
  • waste biomass
  • stalks of wheat, corn, wood, and special-energy-or-biomass crops (e.g. Miscanthus).
  • biohydrogen
  • biomethanol
  • DMF
  • Bio-DME
  • Fischer-Tropsch diesel
  • biohydrogen diesel
  • mixed alcohols
  • wood diesel
  • Lignocellulose
  • Slightly modified elephant yeast with ground stock

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    Third generation biofuels

    Types:

  • Algae fuel

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    InDepth Information about Algae Biofuel

    Algae fuel, also called oilgae or third generation biofuel, is a biofuel from algae. Algae are low-input, high-yield feedstocks to produce biofuels. It produces 30 times more energy per acre than land crops such as soybeans.With the higher prices of fossil fuels (petroleum), there is much interest in algaculture (farming algae). One advantage of many biofuels over most other fuel types is that they are biodegradable, and so relatively harmless to the environment if spilled.

    What the US Energy Department has to say About Algae Energy

    The United States Department of Energy estimates that if algae fuel replaced all the petroleum fuel in the United States, it would require 15,000 square miles (38,849 square kilometers), which is roughly the size of Maryland.

    Second and third generation biofuels are also called advanced biofuels

    Algae, such as Botryococcus braunii and Chlorella vulgaris, are relatively easy to grow, but the algal oil is hard to extract. There are several approaches, some of which work better than others.

    Ethanol from Living Algae

    Most biofuel production comes from harvesting organic matter and then converting it to fuel but an alternative approach relies on the fact that some algae naturally produce ethanol and this can be collected without killing the algae. The ethanol evaporates and then can be condensed and collected. The company Algenol is trying to commercialize this process as well as a company by the name of Valcent Products.