Black Soldier Fly Digesters – Converting food wastes into feed, fuel and fertilizer

Scalable Biosystems for Sustainable Energy Production Introduction: Concerns over rising energy demands and dependence on fossil fuels have led to a great deal of research into renewable energy.  While sources like wind and solar show great potential for electricity generation, there will also be a need for renewable sources of liquid and solid fuels for [...]

Integrated BioRefining – Student Spotlight

This semester, through the creative inquiry program at Clemson University, we’ve focused on the use of waste streams as feedstock for production of energy, energy crops, and value added co-products.  Dr. Terry Walker and myself have mentored more than 30 students this semester with hands on applications of key biosystems engineering principles. As we continue research [...]

Snow Creek Farms Canola

Canola as far as the eye can see in Statesville, NC

Thanks Brioso

Just wanted to say a quick thank you to managers Christie and Tyler from Brioso. We had about 40 faculty, staff and students come out over the course of the night to dine at Brioso. We loved the food, and we love that you folks have partnered with us. As our program continues to grow, [...]

Grease Appreciation Night is Wednesday, Nov. 2nd!

Hello supporters of Clemson Sustainable Biofuels!   If you live in the Clemson area, we will be having our Grease Appreciation night at Brioso tomorrow night (Wednesday, Nov. 2nd) from 5-8pm.  Please come out and support Brioso who supports Clemson Sustainable Biofuels, by donating their used oils to us.  Each gallon of oil that is recycled [...]

Soap Batch #1 = Success!

Dex and I made a batch of soap about a month back and it has been curing all this time.  I finally pulled it out this morning, took it to the sink, turned on the water and….voila!  Bubbles!  It lathered up really nicely and rinsed (mostly) cleanly.  It took a bit more rinsing than soap [...]

Algae Farming 101

By: Shwetha Sivakaminathan and Lauren Harroff Last week we had the opportunity to attend a workshop at the UTEX Culture Collection of Algae located at the University of Texas in Austin. Algae include a very diverse range of organisms with differing sizes, shapes, colors and structural components. Microalgae fall into two broad categories: Cyanobacteria or Blue-green [...]

Biosystems Engineers Do It in the Dark!

Croc’s in Downtown Clemson, our newest Supporter

Thanks to the crew down at Croc’s for partnering with the Clemson Sustainable Biofuels initiative! We wish them the best in their new venture in Tiger Town. Croc’s offers a huge selection of wings and draft beers, as well as live music in downtown Clemson. Check them out this Saturday after homecoming for music from [...]

Habitat for Humanity Going Green On Campus

Well, the build is under way! After a morning collecting used cooking oil from our Death Valley stadium and HUGE win over Florida State, Anne, Kait, Steven and I headed back to home base to unload our grease and load our mobile 5kw generator over to the Folks at Habitat for Humanity who were excited [...]