All Articles Tagged As: ethanol

Fuels of the future may come from 'ice that burns,' water and sunshine (11/4/2008)

Fuels of the future may come from "the ice that burns," ordinary water, "designer hydrocarbons," and other new sources ...> Full Article

Powered by olive stones? Turning waste stones into fuel (11/1/2008)

Olive stones can be turned into bioethanol, a renewable fuel that can be produced from plant matter and used as an alternative to petrol or diesel. This gives the olive processing industry an opportunity to make valuable use of 4 million tons of waste in olive stones it generates every year and sets a precedent for the recycling of waste products as fuels. ...> Full Article

More flexible method floated to produce biofuels, electricity (10/19/2008)

Researchers are proposing a new "flexible" approach to producing alternative fuels, hydrogen and electricity from municipal solid wastes, agricultural wastes, forest residues and sewage sludge that could supply up to 20 percent of transportation fuels in the United States annually. ...> Full Article

Researchers support biodiversity in biofuels production (10/4/2008)

U.S. and European mandates for subsidies of cellulosic ethanol production and use have uncertain environmental consequences according to researchers ...> Full Article

New technique makes corn ethanol process more efficient (9/6/2008)

Researchers are exploring the use of oxygen-less vats of microorganisms that naturally feed on organic waste produced from the ethanol fermentation process. ...> Full Article

Sweet Potato Out-Yields Corn in Ethanol Production Study (8/22/2008)

sweet potatoes grown in Maryland and Alabama yielded two to three times as much carbohydrate for fuel ethanol production as field corn ...> Full Article

Improved Reaction Data Heat Up the Biofuels Harvest (8/10/2008)

Researchers have detailed some of the most fundamental processes involved in extracting sugars from biomass, the first step in producing ethanol by fermentation. Their findings should help engineers to improve their process designs in order to extract the maximum amount of fuel from a given measure of biomass. ...> Full Article

Miscanthus can meet U.S. biofuels goal using less land than corn or switchgrass (8/2/2008)

Using Miscanthus as a feedstock for ethanol production in the U.S. could significantly reduce the acreage dedicated to biofuels while meeting government biofuels production goals ...> Full Article

New biomass technology dramatically increases ethanol yield from grasses and yard waste (8/1/2008)

researchers have developed a new technology that promises to dramatically increase the yield of ethanol from readily available non-food crops, such as Bermudagrass, switchgrass, Napiergrassâ€"and even yard waste. ...> Full Article

Researchers pursue switchgrass as Earth-friendly biofuel (7/20/2008)

Experimental facility examining the sustainability of different perennial bioenergy crops – plants that could be turned into energy either by being burned directly or by being converted into cellulosic ethanol ...> Full Article

Ethanol byproduct produces green results (7/5/2008)

DDGS could reduce costs to commercial nursery growers ...> Full Article

Researchers use fungus to improve corn-to-ethanol process (5/28/2008)

Growing a fungus in some of the leftovers from ethanol production can save energy, recycle more water and improve the livestock feed that's a co-product of fuel production ...> Full Article

A fungus that produces biofuels from plants (5/18/2008)

Only a few genes are responsible for the fungus's enzymatic activity ...> Full Article

Turning fungus into fuel (5/8/2008)

Organism with a taste for olive drab shows promise for greener energy ...> Full Article

Researcher devises fuel that are more efficient cells, thanks to a new catalyst (5/6/2008)

Researcher has developed new materials that enable the manufacture of cheaper and more efficient methanol fuel cells ...> Full Article

Gas from grass - surely not? (4/27/2008)

UK researchers hope to convert ryegrass into ethanol ...> Full Article

New Source for Biofuels Discovered by Researchers (4/24/2008)

A newly created microbe produces cellulose that can be turned into ethanol and other biofuels ...> Full Article

Gut reaction: Cow stomach holds key to turning corn into biofuel (4/9/2008)

An enzyme from a microbe that lives inside a cow's stomach is the key to turning corn plants into fuel ...> Full Article

Fueling Ethanol Production While Protecting Water Quality (4/7/2008)

Scientists evaluate the unintended consequences of ethanol production on water quality ...> Full Article

Researchers Developing a More Efficient Ethanol Production Method (2/27/2008)

A University of Wyoming professor has received a $485,000 grant to explore a more economical way to produce ethanol. ...> Full Article

New Techniques Create Butanol, A Superior Biofuel (1/30/2008)

A team of researchers headed by an environmental engineer at Washington University in St. Louis is plying new techniques to produce a biofuel superior to ethanol. ...> Full Article

Scientist researches ways to squeeze two fuels from one kernel of corn (1/19/2008)

Getting ethanol from a corn kernel has changed the way the country looks at a corn field. ...> Full Article

Trees, Grass May Produce Ethanol Without Poisoning Gulf (1/19/2008)

Within five to seven years fast growing trees and grasses might become economically viable alternatives to corn as a source of renewable fuel ethanol, reducing the need for pollutants that now cause a massive "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico. ...> Full Article

Cattle Fed Byproducts Of Ethanol Production Harbor Dangerous E. Coli Bacteria (12/14/2007)

Ethanol plants and livestock producers have created a symbiotic relationship. Cattle producers feed their livestock distiller's grains, a byproduct of the ethanol distilling process, giving ethanol producers have an added source of income. ...> Full Article