Sentences with phrase «alternative feedstocks»

Alternative feedstocks are needed to boost ethanol production, Saha said, and the 1.3 billion tons of biomass available in the U.S. would be sufficient to produce the total amount of oil the country imports each year.

That includes research into algae as well as programs focused on converting alternative feedstocks like cellulosic biomass.

Resource efficiency, the use of lighter and alternative feedstocks, as well as the integration of Carbon, capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) are key sustainable strategies for the Netherlands going forward, he said.

Not exact matches

The protein threads could be spun and woven into novel biomaterials, which could provide a sustainable alternative to synthetic fibres such as Nylon, which are made from petroleum feedstocks.

Due to diminishing petroleum reserves, non-food biomass (lignocellulose) is an attractive alternative as a feedstock for the production of renewable chemicals and fuels.

A full lifecycle analysis of Bio-SNG production undertaken by North Energy Associates found that for many types of feedstock, the lifecycle CO2e savings of Bio-SNG compared with fossil fuel alternatives are typically ~ 90 %.

The use of ethanol produced from corn in the U.S. and sugar cane in Brazil has given birth to the commercialization of an alternative fuel that is coming to show substantial promise, particularly as new feedstocks are developed.

Devoting land to growing feedstock for liquid biofuels, or growing biomass for generating electricity, augurs the greatest potential energy sprawl of the major energy alternatives under discussion.

Primus Green Energy Inc., an alternative fuel company that converts natural gas and other feedstocks directly into drop - in transportation fuels and solvents (earlier post), announced that its patent application covering its STG + liquid fuel synthesis technology has been allowed by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

Alternative liquid fuels include ethanol, biodiesel and methanol, and synthetic gasoline and diesel made from natural gas, coal, or other feedstocks.

(Sec. 1514) Directs the EPA Administrator to: (1) establish an Advanced Biofuel Technologies Program to demonstrate advanced technologies for the production of alternative transportation fuels; (2) give priority to projects that enhance the geographical diversity of alternative fuels production and utilize feedstocks that represent 10 % or less of domestic ethanol or biodiesel fuel production during the previous fiscal year; and (3) fund demonstration projects to develop conversion technologies for producing cellulosic biomass ethanol, and for coproducing value - added bioproducts (such as fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides) resulting from biodiesel fuel production.

Growing demand for vegetable oil in the food industry has resulted in increased prices, causing biodiesel producers to search for alternative — and more sustainable — feedstocks.

The race is on to find more cost - effective, energy - efficient strategies for turning biomass, or renewable feedstocks, into alternative fuels.

It seems like it's not quite what we're going to get for the first flight this month: «it will not be an algae or halophyte - derived alternative, second - generation biofuels that come from renewable and sustainable feedstocks.

Corbion further aims to contribute to the circular economy by providing bio-based molecules made by using renewable feedstocks as alternative or to replace fossil - based molecules (e.g. polylactic acid (PLA), bio-based succinic acid and poly - ethylenefuranoate (PEF)-RRB-.