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The new bioenergy research center: building on ten years of success
Feb 20, 2018 (SPX)
On Feb. 18 at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Austin, Texas, Tim Donohue, GLBRC director and UW-Madison profess...
Fungal enzymes could hold secret to making renewable energy from wood
Feb 20, 2018 (SPX)
As an alternative to coal and oil, wood is increasingly one of the more promising sources of advanced biofuels . However, despite its potential, it is a difficu...
Indonesia eyes lax palm oil rules in EU trade deal: leak
Feb 16, 2018 (AFP)
The papers, marked "not for publication" and for distribution only on a "need to know" basis, reflect Jakarta's wish list for a critical industry as the two sid...
Argonne and Energy Vision demonstrate Renewable Natural Gas as transport fuel
Feb 16, 2018 (SPX)
Energy Vision and Argonne produced the studies jointly. One study looks at Fair Oaks Farms, a large dairy cooperative in Indiana with roughly 36,000 cows. It co...
Biochar could replace unsustainable peat moss in greenhouse industry
Feb 15, 2018 (SPX)
"Peat bogs naturally store carbon. When peat moss is harvested, there's a transfer of a global carbon sink into a net source. That's because within a couple gro...
Lithuanian researchers: Wastewater treatment plants could generate electricity
Feb 13, 2018 (SPX)
Over the past 20 years, nearly three-fourths of human-caused emissions came from the burning of fossil fuels. Increasing pollution and decreasing fossil energy ...
Calculating the CO2 emissions of biofuels is not enough
Feb 05, 2018 (SPX)
Biofuels and other biomass-derived products have become viable options for replacing fossil fuels. But they have to meet certain environmental standards if they...
Bio-renewable process could help 'green' plastic
Jan 29, 2018 (SPX)
Over a century later, plastics are an abundant part of daily life. But these plastics are often derived from petroleum, contributing to reliance on fossil fuels...
To maximize sugarcane harvesting, use the right blade
Jan 29, 2018 (SPX)
"We were initially looking at harvesting miscanthus, switchgrass, and other biomass crops that use rotary cutters," says Alan Hansen, lead author on the study a...
The making of biorelevant nanomaterials
Jan 26, 2018 (SPX)
DNA, RNA, proteins, and many polysaccharide-protein conjugates are charged biological macromolecules. They have complex structures with unique functions, making...
New study shows producers where and how to grow cellulosic biofuel crops
Jan 17, 2018 (SPX)
"Early yield estimates were based on data from small research plots, but they weren't realistic. Our main goal with this project was to determine whether these ...
New catalyst for hydrogen production is a step toward clean fuel
Jan 17, 2018 (SPX)
Researchers led by Shaowei Chen, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UC Santa Cruz, have been investigating the use of carbon-based nanostructured materi...
Malaysia protest against EU push to ban palm oil in biofuels
Jan 16, 2018 (AFP)
Waving banners that read "Stop the Palm Oil Ban" and "Palm oil provides food for my family", the smallholders gathered in downtown Kuala Lumpur and marched to t...
Solid-state physics offers insights into dielectric properties of biomaterials
Jan 10, 2018 (SPX)
The team measured the materials' dynamic conductivity and dielectric permittivity in a wide range of frequencies and temperatures. To interpret their findings, ...
Less chewing the cud, more greening the fuel
Jan 09, 2018 (SPX)
The trouble is that this robustness still makes them less digestible in the rumen of cows and sheep and difficult to process in bioenergy refineries for ethanol...
Rice U.'s one-step catalyst turns nitrates into water and air
Jan 09, 2018 (SPX)
The research is available online in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Catalysis. "Nitrates come mainly from agricultural runoff, which affects farming c...
Locating the precise reaction path: Methane dissociation on platinum
Jan 03, 2018 (SPX)
Transition metals are known for their superior catalytic capabilities and researchers know that the most significant reactions occur at the surface of the catal...
A fossil fuel technology that doesn't pollute
Jan 03, 2018 (SPX)
In the first of two papers published in the journal Energy and Environmental Science, the engineers report that they've devised a process that transforms shale ...
A catalytic balancing act
Jan 02, 2018 (SPX)
In a new study, researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Drexel University and several univ...
A new strategy for efficient hydrogen production
Jan 02, 2018 (SPX)
This breakthrough has been led by Professor Guntae Kim in the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering at UNIST in collaboration with Professor Tak-Hyoung Lim ...
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