Sentences with phrase «cellulose ethanol plant»

Locate an SOEC next to a cellulose ethanol plant for the bio CO2 and waste heat, then get energy from wind turbines to make bio synthetic fuels.

So some of the cellulose ethanol plants actually built and functional can't afford to go into production.

Not exact matches

We've used yeast to convert plant cellulose and starch into biofuels like ethanol for decades; however, the process still isn't efficient, and scientists are genetically altering yeast to change that.

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

Finding a cost - effective method for breaking down the tough cellulose in plant matter to produce ethanol has been a tough challenge, involving both innovations in chemistry and in field operations like the baling feeder developed by Woodford.

Together the two plants would produce, at best, 22 million gallons of ethanol a year by using sulfuric acid to break the lignocellulose bonds and then burning the leftover lignin to power fermentation of the cellulose into ethanol.

«The challenge is breaking down cellulose (plant) material, using enzymes, into sugars that can be fermented into ethanol,» he said.

AE Biofuels uses an enzyme - based approach to the production of cellulosic ethanol and has designed our process to be integrated with existing corn ethanol production, in addition to building cellulose - only plants.

Atalla finds that briefly soaking corn stover (the leftover parts of the plant, such as husks) in a solution of sodium hydroxide, ethanol, and water changes the molecular structure of the cellulose, allowing him to convert nearly twice as much of it as is possible with existing methods.

Now, Brazil hopes to tap into a new biofuel source: second - generation ethanol, produced from the tough cellulose in plant stalks.

Ethanol fuel is produced from sugar cane in Brazil and from the cellulose of a wide variety of plants, including cornstalks, poplar trees, and switch grass, as well as waste left over from the forest products industry, wheat, oat, and barley straw.

Ordinarily, it is wasted when plant biomass, including cellulose, is converted into biofuels like ethanol.

The problem with forcing «all» vehicles to use x % ethanol and «mandating» cellulose ethanol before a single plant was built.

Although human beings have been producing ethanol, grain alcohol, from sugar and starch for millennia, it is only in recent years that the genetic engineering of biocatalysts has made possible such production from the hemicellulose and cellulose that constitute the substantial majority of the material in most plants.

As you may recall, President G.W. Bush touted ethanol made from plant cellulose such as switchgrass in his 2006 state of the union address.

A major focus will be on understanding how to reengineer biological processes for more efficient conversion of plant fiber, or cellulose, into ethanol, a substitute for gasoline.

Farmers won't produce more cellulose than their ruminants need unless there is a cellulose to ethanol plant buying.