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Production of Synthetic Fuel from Anaerobic Digester Gas

Frost L., Hartvigsen J., Elangovan E., Ceramatec Inc, US

The waste generated from feed lots, dairy farms, meat processing, etc can be converted to a mixture of methane and carbon dioxide using anaerobic digestion. The methane can be converted to synthesis gas and subsequently [...]

Development of a Renewable Fuel Nanotechnology

Klausmeier V., Sylvatex Inc., US

The authors have developed a technology to blend biomass-derived oxygenates - alcohols, free fatty acids, neutralizer, and water – together to form a renewable blendstock. When blended into diesel, the resulting microemulsion fuel has been [...]

The Unbeatable Beet: Biorefining Of Sugar Beet Pulp

Nolles R., Staps F., van Engelen G., Cosun Biobased Products, US

ABSTRACT (max. 500 words) Introduction There are many definitions of biorefining, like the one provided by the US Department of Energy in 1997 “A biorefinery is an overall concept of a processing plant where biomass [...]

Regulatory Impediments to Commercializing Biofuel and Other Biobased Products

Roberts K.M., Biobased and Renewable Products Advocacy Group, US

As renewable fuel and biobased chemical companies successfully make the leap from research and development to market, they face another set of underappreciated regulatory challenges in order to lawfully commercialize their products. Under the Toxic [...]

Systems biology and pathway engineering enable Saccharomyces cerevisiae to utilize C-5 and C-6 sugars simultaneously for cellulosic ethanol production

Liu Z.L., Moon Jaewoon., ARS-USDA, US

Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a traditional industrial workhorse for ethanol production. However, conventional ethanologenic yeast is superior in fermentation of hexose sugars (C-6) such as glucose but unable to utilize pentose sugars (C-5) such as xylose [...]

Lower-cost cellulosic ethanol production using cellobiose fermenting yeast Clavispora NRRL Y-50464

Liu Z.L., Weber S.A., ARS-USDA, US

For ethanol production from cellulosic materials, there are generally two major steps needed including enzymatic hydrolysis to break down biomass sugars and microbial fermentation to convert available simple sugars into ethanol. It often requires two [...]

Tolerant yeast in situ detoxifies major class of toxic chemicals while producing ethanol

Liu Z.L., ARS-USDA, US

Renewable lignocellulosic materials contain abundant sugar source and biofuels conversion including cellulosic ethanol production from lignocellulosic biomass provides a sustainable alternative energy resource for a cleaner environment. In order to release the biomass sugars from [...]

Month: May 2016