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such as solar thermal power, modern biomass production and the Seawater Greenhouse. The resulting synergies enable restorative growth in the worlds most arid regions.
Cellulosic ethanol producers are trying to generate fuel from biomass such as leaves and branches. These feedstocks have the advantage that they are plentiful
has promised to build up research on biomass technology and double EMBRAPA s funding for that area,
dried grasses and other indigestible plant matter could greatly improve the efficiency of converting waste biomass to fuel.
But most of the biomass produced in agriculture and forestry lies unused in more-complex chains of sugars, for example lignin and cellulose.
"I think there is a great potential for this approach in biomass processing, says Harvey Blanch, a bioenergy researcher at the Joint Bioenergy Institute in Emeryville, California,
director of biomass applications at enzyme company Novozymes, based in Raleigh-Durham, North carolina. But Luterbacher says that his team's enzyme-free process has plenty of potential for improvement."
By contrast, GVL is made easily from biomass, and easily recovered from a mixture of dissolved sugars.
or applying extremely high temperatures to break down biomass into syngas (hydrogen and carbon monoxide). Claire Curry, a bioenergy analyst at the information firm Bloomberg New Energy Finance, expects that some 50 million to 60 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol could be produced commercially worldwide this year up from just a few
and therefore valuable supplies of biomass across the globe by reducing the need for biofuels Based on our analysis this freeing up of biomass is one of the key system-wide consequences of electrifying transport says Mccollum.
Available biomass could then be used for example in plastics manufacturing or steel production which are otherwise challenging to decarbonize.
But now there is a lot of interest in using sorghum for other things such as growing sweet sorghum in areas where they grow sugarcane and growing biomass sorghum for bioenergy through combustion or cellulosic technology.
and use the genes that we bred for in grain sorghum over the last hundred years and move them into sweet sorghum and biomass sorghum.
or biomass sorghum researchers will need to bring in some of the genes from grain sorghum for traits like seed quality or early-season vigor.
But the bigger problem with biomass sorghum right now is the moisture content of the biomass.
Because biomass sorghum is grown annually growing until frost comes when it is harvested it has a high moisture content.
When we cut it down there's tons of biomass. I don't know that there's anything else that can match it in the area
but the biomass is really high moisture. For the existing cellulosic idea as it stands now that is not very useful he said That's one of the roadblocks to biomass sorghum right now he said.
Sweet sorghum where you squeeze the sugary juice out like sugarcane may be closer on the horizon.
Also known as elephant grass miscanthus is one of a new generation of renewable energy crops that can be converted into renewable energy by being burned in biomass power stations.
This is especially true for the cellulase enzymes used to release fermentable sugars from cellulosic biomass for the production of advanced biofuels.
Increasing the sugar yields from cellulosic biomass to help bring down biofuel production costs is essential for the widespread commercial adoption of these fuels.
The enzymatic breakdown of cellulosic biomass into fermentable sugars has been the Achilles heel of biofuels a key economic bottleneck says chemical engineer Harvey Blanch one of the leaders of this research.
Synthesized from the sugars in the cellulosic biomass of grasses other non-food crops and agricultural waste advanced biofuels represent a sustainable nonpolluting source of transportation fuel that would also generate domestic jobs and revenue.
Unlike the simple starch-based glucose sugars in corn and other grains the sugars in cellulosic biomass are complex polysaccharides that must be extricated from a tough polymer called lignin
The new PALM-based technique should allow enzyme cock tails to be matched optimally to the structural organizations of particular biomass substrates such as grass
Zhang's method can be performed using any source of biomass. The discovery is featured a editor's choice in an online version of the chemistry journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition.
This amounts to a significant additional benefit to hydrogen production and it reduces the overall cost of producing hydrogen from biomass.
Obstacles to commercial production of hydrogen gas from biomass previously included the high cost of the processes used and the relatively low quantity of the end product.
and biodiesel are the only biofuels to have been produced in commercial quantities in the U s. to date the study committee found much greater potential in biofuels made from lignocellulosic biomass
The report finds that sufficient lignocellulosic biomass could be produced by 2050 to meet the goal of an 80 percent reduction in petroleum use
A typical BECCS system converts woody biomass grass and other vegetation into electricity chemical products or fuels such as ethanol.
But according to the GCEP report major technical and economic hurdles must be overcome such as the relative inefficiency of biomass fuels and the high cost of carbon capture and storage (CCS.
and to recycle the revenues to subsidize captured emissions from biomass Ricci said. A carbon tax would put a price on CO2 emissions
if the biochar is made from waste biomass sustainably harvested crop residues or crops grown on abandoned land that has reverted not to forest.
The ORNL technology offers a new pathway to biomass-derived renewable fuels that can lower greenhouse gas emissions and decrease U s. reliance on foreign sources of oil.
Commercialization will lead to the widespread use of proprietary Vertimass technology for low cost production of sustainable transportation fuels for aircraft and heavy and light duty vehicles from multiple sources of biomass on a large scale.
When plants die some of their biomass is trapped in areas that are devoid of oxygen such as the bottom of lakes.
A number of years ago we started looking pretty seriously at biomass. We need a lot of energy
Which is turned why you to biomass specialist  Envergent. DC: Envergent was really putting the finishing touches on the development side of bringing this forward.
The size of the original plant that we had looked at for the traditional biomass approach...
and just switched it around for biomass. We established the joint venture in November of 2008.
You create a densified power source out of biomass, which is 50 percent water. You take that and densify it into a liquid with lower moisture content and higher density,
So we're using cellulosic biomass waste streams--corn cobs, treetops and limbs, dead pine trees from pine beetles.
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