Sentences with phrase «cellulosic material»

I think you'd be much better off just drying and pelletizing the cellulosic material and using a syngas generator to produce carbon monoxide and then fuel your internal combustion engine directly from the CO which requires very little modification to the engine — about the same as the modifications required to run it from natural gas or propane.

Mechanical processing at the outset is required to pulverize the cellulosic material into fine particulates with a large surface area available to the biologic producers of the enzymes which break it down into carbs.

«It suggests that they evolved independent of each other, toward the same purpose of breaking down cellulosic material,» Gilmore added.

«In the U.S. alone, from current activities in agriculture and forestry, 1.5 billion tons of cellulosic material are generated every year and none of that goes into liquid transportation,» noted microbiologist Tim Donohue, director of the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, during a tour of the center in Madison, Wisc., this past October.

That's thanks to a laundry list of variables that could vitiate their progress: hitches in the collection of cellulosic material, trouble converting land to agricultural development, or ineffectual government support.

Since 2010, more than 600 tons of cellulosic material has been collected and used for Taeq packaging.

And there's a lot of spare sugar to be found in the cellulosic materials left behind in crops.

This allows cellulosic materials such as plant stems, wood chips and cardboard waste, as well as other tricky polysaccharides such as insect / crustacean shells, to be broken down.

Finding a way of breaking down cellulosic materials into their constituent sugars to allow them to be fermented through to bioethanol is a key aim for second - generation biofuel development.

Gasoline - like fuels can be made from cellulosic materials such as farm and forestry waste using a new process invented by chemists at the University of California, Davis.

Date: February 3, 2014; Source: University of California - Davis; Summary: Gasoline - like fuels can be made from cellulosic materials such as farm and forestry waste using a new process.

These cellulosic materials are in great abundance, environmentally friendly, and economically sustainable.

Work is now under way to develop efficient technologies to convert cellulosic materials such as switchgrass, woodchips, wheat straw, and corn stalks into ethanol.

Under the agreement, Cooper Marine & Timberlands («CMT») will supply BlueFire's Fulton, Mississippi project with all of the feedstock required to produce approximately 19 - million gallons of ethanol per year from locally sourced cellulosic materials such as wood chips, forest residual chips, pre-commercial thinnings and urban wood waste such as construction waste, storm debris, land clearing; or manufactured wood waste from furniture manufacturing.

This may change if technology becomes available for the economically competitive production of energy from cellulosic materials as outlined in Section 3.

Researchers at Virginia Tech, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and the University of Georgia have produced hydrogen gas in a spontaneous, «one - pot» process using an enzyme cocktail, cellulosic materials from non-food sources,... Read more →

The technologies to convert these cellulosic materials into ethanol exist, but the cost of producing cellulosic ethanol is close to double that of grain - based ethanol.

Not exact matches

As it stands, such cellulosic biorefineries get their materials either from the residue of conventional crops, such as corn stover, or from harvesting trees.

In the future, Ingeo ™ will be made from cellulosic raw materials, agricultural wastes and non-food plants.

Edeniq, Inc. developed a low - cost, low carbon intensity technology for the conversion of cellulosic biomass (plant material) to ethanol.

Under the Agreement, CMT will pursue a least - cost strategy for feedstock supply made possible by the project site's proximity to feedstock sources and the flexibility of BlueFire's process to use a wide spectrum of cellulosic waste materials in pure or mixed forms.

CO2 was sequestered in ligno - cellulosic plant material because microbes and fungi weren't able to break it down and convert it back to CO2.

BlueFire is established to deploy the proven Arkenol Process Technology («Technology») for the profitable conversion of cellulosic waste materials to ethanol.

Each facility will deploy the proprietary technology, which uses all cellulosic waste materials traditionally disposed of in landfills as feedstock.

And if we are smart and lucky, the cash flow from corn ethanol will provide the money and incentives to convert most of the production stream to cellulosic / duckweed / algal source materials in a decade or so.

Renewable, non-polluting fuels are: electricity (when generated by a clean source), biodiesel and cellulosic ethanol (when these biofuels are generated using «waste» material or from crops grown in a sustainable manner).