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Sustainable Corn Production Supports Advanced Biofuel Feedstocks

Sustainable Corn Production Supports Advanced Biofuel Feedstocks

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers worldwide are trying to economically convert cellulosic biomass such as corn stover into "cellulosic ethanol." But Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have found that ...


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Microbes to Take Over Ethanol Production?

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1 weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- Not too long ago, it seemed that ethanol production was the wave of the future. The use of trash, wood chips or different types of plants -- usually grass or corn -- to make ethanol was considered ...


Wet ethanol production process yields more ethanol and more co-products

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Using a wet ethanol production method that begins by soaking corn kernels rather than grinding them, results in more gallons of ethanol and more usable co-products, giving ethanol producers a bigger bang for their buck - ...


Genomes of biofuel yeasts reveal clues that could boost fuel ethanol production

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (3) | comments 1

As global temperatures and energy costs continue to soar, renewable sources of energy will be key to a sustainable future. An attractive replacement for gasoline is biofuel, and in two studies published online in Genome Re ...


Precise blending makes marketable product from ethanol co-product

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Purdue University researcher has found a way to predict the nutrient content in distillers dried grains with solubles, making the ethanol byproduct more marketable as a feedstock.


New sources of biofuel to take pressure off traditional crops

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

"Salt-loving algae could be the key to the successful development of biofuels as well as being an efficient means of recycling atmospheric carbon dioxide", Professor John Cushman of the University of Nevada told the Society ...


Reject watermelons -- the newest renewable energy source

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 25, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Watermelon juice can be a valuable source of biofuel. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Biotechnology for Biofuels have shown that the juice of reject watermelons can be efficiently fermented into e ...


Ethanol production could jeopardize soil productivity

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 3

There is growing interest in using crop residues as the feedstock of choice for the production of cellulosic-based ethanol because of the more favorable energy output relative to grain-based ethanol. This would also help ...


Biofuel production: a drink-or-drive issue?

Biofuel production: a drink-or-drive issue?

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Federal requirements to increase the production of ethanol has developed into a "drink-or-drive issue" in the Midwest as a result of biofuel production's impact on water supplies and water ...


Tiny super-plant can clean up animal waste and be used for ethanol production

Tiny super-plant can clean up animal waste, be used for ethanol production

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (16) | comments 11

Researchers at North Carolina State University have found that a tiny aquatic plant can be used to clean up animal waste at industrial hog farms and potentially be part of the answer for the global energy ...


Iowa State researchers developing clean, renewable energy for ethanol industry

Iowa State researchers developing clean, renewable energy for ethanol industry

Technology / Energy

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Iowa State University researchers are working to produce clean, renewable energy by developing a new, low-emissions burner and a new catalyst for ethanol production.


Study critiques corn-for-ethanol's carbon footprint

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 8

To avoid creating greenhouse gases, it makes more sense using today's technology to leave land unfarmed in conservation reserves than to plow it up for corn to make biofuel, according to a comprehensive Duke University-led ...


Commercial yeasts upgraded with an enzyme for biofuel production

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Eckhard Boles, co-founder of the Swiss biofuel company Butalco GmbH and a professor at Goethe-University in Frankfurt, Germany, has discovered a new enzyme which teaches yeast cells to ferment xylose into ethanol. Xylose ...


Researchers advance cellulosic ethanol production

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created Sep 08, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (24) | comments 0

A team of researchers from Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering and Mascoma Corporation in Lebanon, N.H., have made a discovery that is important for producing large quantities of cellulosic ethanol, a leading candidate ...