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Penn researchers mimic giant clams to enhance the production of biofuel
Nov 06, 2017 (SPX)
Anyone who has ever gone snorkeling in Australia or the western tropical Pacific Ocean, Sweeney says, may have noticed that the surfaces of giant clams are irid...
Research aims to help renewable jet fuel take flight
Nov 01, 2017 (SPX)
All those emissions add up. World air travel contributed 815 million tons of CO2 emissions in 2016 - two percent of the global manmade total, according to the I...
Expanding Brazilian sugarcane could dent global CO2 emissions
Oct 25, 2017 (SPX)
This would be a massive undertaking, involving the conversion of hundreds of thousands of square miles - at its most ambitious, more than the combined land area...
Separating methane and CO2 will become more efficient
Oct 20, 2017 (SPX)
When it comes to extracting natural gas or producing biogas, it's all about the methane. But methane is never found in its pure form. Natural gas, for instance,...
Breaking down stubborn cellulose
Oct 16, 2017 (SPX)
Typically, biorefineries use a mix of hydrolytically active enzymes which utilize water molecules to breakdown plant material - as happens in natural degradatio...
Converting carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide using water, electricity
Oct 16, 2017 (SPX)
"The electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide to fuels is a subject of considerable interest because it offers a means for storing electricity from energy so...
A key step in synthetic fuel production from seawater patented by NRL
Oct 09, 2017 (SPX)
"With greater attention being directed at mitigating the effects CO2 can have on the environment, an interesting and attractive alternative is to recycle the ga...
Breakthrough in direct activation of CO2 and CH4 into liquid fuels and chemicals
Oct 09, 2017 (SPX)
In a paper published in chemistry journal Angewandte Chemie they report a very unique plasma synthesis process for the direct, one-step activation of carbon dio...
NGOs slam UN aviation agency plan for biofuels
Oct 09, 2017 (AFP)
Extensive burning of biofuels would vastly expand the production of palm oil, which critics say drives deforestation, higher CO2 emissions and conflicts with in...
Surrounded by potential: New science in converting biomass
Oct 06, 2017 (SPX)
This natural abundance has drawn high interest from the research community to chemically convert lignin into biofuels. And if plant life really does hold the bu...
Olive mill wastewater transformed: From pollutant to bio-fertilizer, biofuel
Oct 03, 2017 (SPX)
Now in a study appearing in ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, scientists report on the development of an environmentally friendly process that could tr...
Bioreactors on a chip renew promises for algal biofuels
Oct 03, 2017 (SPX)
Despite high-profile demonstrations, promises have fallen short, and start-ups have revised business models to include production of specialty lipids, such as t...
Algae with light switch
Oct 02, 2017 (SPX)
In everyday life, green algae tend to be bad news. In damp weather, microscopic unicellular algae form a slimy layer on garden furniture and house walls; during...
Illinois researchers develop gene circuit design strategy to advance synthetic biology
Sep 27, 2017 (SPX)
These gene circuits hold great promise in medical and biotechnological applications, such as combating super bugs, producing advanced biofuels, and manufacturin...
With extra sugar, leaves get fat too
Sep 26, 2017 (SPX)
In plants, this extra fat accumulation could be a good thing. It could help turn plants into factories for making biofuels and other useful chemicals. But you c...
Green algae could hold clues for engineering faster-growing crops
Sep 25, 2017 (SPX)
In the studies published this week in the journal Cell, the Princeton-led team reported the first detailed inventory of the cellular machinery - located in an o...
Copper catalyst yields high efficiency CO2-to-fuels conversion
Sep 21, 2017 (SPX)
In the new study, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a team led by Berkeley Lab scientist Peidong Yang discovere...
Enzyme's worth to biofuels shown in latest NREL research
Sep 21, 2017 (SPX)
The enzyme, called CelA, comes from Caldicellulosiruptor bescii, and NREL scientists reported three years ago, in the journal Science, how it can convert biomas...
Researchers discover unique property of critical methane-producing enzyme
Sep 21, 2017 (SPX)
A team of researchers at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign published a paper in eLife that...
New biomaterial could replace plastic laminates, greatly reduce pollution
Sep 21, 2017 (SPX)
Completely compostable, the material - a polysaccharide polyelectrolyte complex - is comprised of nearly equal parts of treated cellulose pulp from wood or cott...
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