All Articles Tagged As: biomass
A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers has developed a highly efficient, environmentally friendly process that selectively converts gamma-valerolactone, a biomass derivative, into the chemical equivalent of jet fuel.
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 | Researchers at the Joint BioEnergy Institute are using the natural auto-fluorescence of plant cell walls to dynamically track how ionic liquids are able to dissolve lignocellulose into fermentable sugars for the production of advanced biofuels. ...> Full Article |
One-step process derives raw material for fuels and plastic from plants rather than crude oil
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A study lead by UC Merced's Elliott Campbell suggests that biomass used to generate electricity could be more efficient than ethanol. In the study, researchers found that biomass converted into electricity produced 81 percent more transportation miles and 108 percent more emissions offsets than ethanol.
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Taking a chemical approach, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a two-step method to convert the cellulose in raw biomass into a promising biofuel. The process, which is described in the Wednesday, Feb. 11 issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, is unprecedented in its use of untreated, inedible biomass as the starting material.
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 | Scientists have discovered a novel way to directly convert cellulose to industrially useful chemical compounds using tungsten carbide as a catalyst. ...> Full Article |
A process used to roast coffee beans could give Britain's biomass a power boost, increasing the energy content of some of the UK's leading energy crops by up to 20 per cent.
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A University of Wyoming professor has received a $485,000 grant to explore a more economical way to produce ethanol.
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 | At the annual meeting of the American Society of Plant Biologists in Chicago (July 7-11, 2007), scientists presented findings on how to economically and efficiently produce plant crops suitable for sustainable bioenergy. Improving the production of such biomass is important because it should significantly ease and eventually replace dependence on petroleum-based fuels. Biomass is plant material, vegetation or agricultural waste used as fuel. ...> Full Article |
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