Sentences with phrase «as a biofuel feedstock»

Although preliminary, these results suggest that this may be a viable means to facilitate lignin removal and potentially advance the utilization of woody biomass as a biofuel feedstock.

(09/10/2008) Plunging palm oil prices are increasing its attractiveness as a biofuel feedstock and thereby helping buoy demand for the oilseed, reports Reuters.

Biofuels offer one possibility for reducing the carbon footprint of these transport systems, but many plants grown as biofuel feedstocks compete with food crops and / or wild lands.

Not exact matches

Cellulose - loving fungi can cut biofuel costs by enabling existing corn ethanol plants to process cheaper, woody feedstocks such as corn stover

So say researchers at E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., which alongside Seattle - based Bio Architecture Lab (BAL) has secured $ 9 million from the Department of Energy to explore seaweed's potential as a feedstock for biobutanol, an advanced biofuel.

The tree is also being developed as a feedstock for biofuel.

The team focused on yeast in part because of its important modern - day applications; yeasts are used to convert the sugars of biomass feedstocks into biofuels such as ethanol and industrial chemicals such as lactic acid, or to break down organic pollutants.

In the syngas upgrading to hydrocarbon fuels pathway, biomass feedstocks are gasified to produce a syngas (H2 / CO), which is used as a feedstock for hydrocarbon biofuel production.

Though they're not the first group to have a go at using seaweed as a feedstock for biofuels, they may be one of the largest.

As a result, China has sensibly halted the production of biofuels derived from grain - based feedstock and most (but not all) of its originally proposed coal liquefaction projects.

A minimal first step would be to ensure that all fossil fuel inputs to biofuels are carbon - taxed, including natural gas used as feedstock for ammonia - based fertilizers of corn grown for ethanol.

Some experts believe that algae is set to eclipse all other biofuel feedstocks as the cheapest, easiest, and most environmentally friendly way to produce liquid fuel.

«The U.S. and Europe can not produce enough plant feedstocks to meet targets» for biofuel production — even with cellulosic corn — as defined by government mandates, which are largely being driven by a growing demand for energy independence and national security concerns, said Thurmond.

Advanced biofuels can be derived from lignocellulosic feedstocks, such as agricultural waste (e.g., corn stover, wheat straw, rice hulls), agricultural processing byproducts (e.g., corn fiber or sugar cane bagasse), forestry and wood processing waste, the paper portion of municipal solid waste, or dedicated energy crops such as switchgrass.

In fact, since the RFS expanded renewable fuel volumes in 2007, over 1/3 of corn production and nearly 1/4 of the oil produced from soybeans have been diverted to biofuels.1 As the EPA points out, «because many biofuel feedstocks require land, water, and other resources, research suggests that biofuel production may give rise to several undesirable effects.»

Currently, only a small share of such residues is available for energy generation but, as bioenergy production increases, agricultural residues may become more important biofuel feedstocks.

In 2007, Amy won the Folio Eddie for excellence in magazine editorial for her feature on algae as a feedstock for biofuel, which was published in Sustainable Industries magazine.

(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.

It is this type of ad hominem attack that has supported the climate change fraud and people making these slanderous claims should be held accountable for the part they have played in perpetrating this fraud which has crippled the economy and created global starvation by using basic food staples as feedstock for biofuels.

As is the case with biofuels, there is also the significant risk that inappropriately applied incentives to encourage biochar might increase the cost and reduce the availability of food crops, if growing biomass feedstocks becomes more profitable than growing food.»

Economic Benefits The development of an advanced biofuel industry will help rebuild the local and regional economies devastated as a result of hurricanes Katrina and Rita by providing: (1) increased value to the feedstock crops which will benefit local farmers and provide more revenue to the local community; (2) increased investments in plants and equipment which will stimulate the local economy by providing construction jobs initially and the chance for full - time employment after the plant is completed; (3) secondary employment as associated industries develop due to plant co-products becoming available at a competitive price; and (4) increased local and state revenues collected from plant operations will stimulate local and state tax revenues and provide funds for improvements to the community and to the region.

Corn is a poor feedstock for biofuel (although it way be useful to use non-food corn waste as feedstock).

So, more attention and resources are going into the producing of ethanol and other biofuel types from second - generation feedstocks, sometimes known as non-food crops.

Lufthansa has not stated more concrete plans as to how these goals will be reached, nor what feedstocks for biofuels it is investigating.

Rather, it will be a first - generation biofuel whose feedstock is generally understood to compete with either land and water use for food crops or carbon sinks such as rainforests.»

Tyson Foods is trying it with partnerships with Syntroleum Corp and ConocoPhillips, now the city of Calgary is trying to get in on the act... Making biofuels from beef tallow: Western Biodiesel has opened a new biodiesel facility in Aldersyde which will be using beef tallow and canola as feedstock.

Some advocates want even greater federal incentives for biomass, such as woody biomass from federal lands to qualify as renewable feedstock for biofuels production.

Many landfills are already prized turf with methane being used as a fuel source, and cellulosic biofuel plants pillaging the refuse headed towards landfills as feedstock.