Sentences with phrase «forprocessing corn stover»

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

A bioenergy field trial in Wisconsin is evaluating how switchgrass, Miscanthus, corn stover, poplar trees, and native prairie grasses stack up against each other.

And, if other forms of waste, such as the stalks of corn plants (corn stover) or the remnants of timber harvest are included, Klann says, «we have enough feedstock in the U.S. to offset 70 percent of the oil import.»

«If everything is done right, probably we can use corn stover without other problems, though it might mean you have to grow a cover crop.»

Corn stover — the stalks, leaves and cobs in cornfields after harvest — has been considered a ready resource for cellulosic ethanol production.

The U.S. Department of Energy has provided more than $ 1 billion in federal funds to support research to develop cellulosic biofuels, including ethanol made from corn stover.

Next - generation biofuels will open and expand markets for additional agricultural products (wheat, barley, staws, grasses, corn stover, woody biomass).

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.

Last February, the Department of Energy selected sixcompanies to receive funding towards building ethanol plants — scheduled to beoperational within the next three years — that will utilize new technology forprocessing corn stover as well as other types of agricultural waste.

An efficient way to break down celluloseinto ethanol is necessary to reduce the cost of processing corn stover on acommercial scale.

In thecase of corn stover (the leaves andstalks remaining in the field after corn is harvested), 250 million dry tonsare produced each year and are rarely utilized, other than to feed grazingcattle immediately after a harvest.

Incontrast to corn stover, wood wastehas limited potential due to the high cost associated with collection andtransportation (in the case of wood left over from timber harvesting) andcompeting uses (in the case of mill residues, which are currently used formulch, particle board, and to power other facilities).

«But in some cases corn stover is only about 59 percent cleaner than gasoline while miscanthus is about 140 percent cleaner.

So if we want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and lower the carbon intensity of our fuel, energy grasses such as miscanthus and switchgrass are going to result in the biggest reductions, not corn stover.»

«Ethanol made from miscanthus would need a much smaller carbon price to make it desirable to produce and for consumers to purchase as compared to ethanol from switchgrass and corn stover.

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

A handful of other cellulosic ethanol plants, which will make biofuels from corn stover, wheat straw and municipal waste, plan to begin production by next year (ClimateWire, Aug. 5).

The center's mission is to develop chemical catalysts and associated technologies that can transform biomass such as trees, grasses and corn stover into fuel and chemicals.

«In biomass like wood, corn stover and switchgrass, cellulose is the most abundant polymer that researchers are trying to convert to biofuels and plastics,» said chemist Z. Conrad Zhang, who led the work while at PNNL's Institute for Integrated Catalysis.

Future harvest of corn stover for cellulosic ethanol production would increase erosion (i.e. sedimentation) and nutrient loads from corn land, they said.

Corn stover is a leading contender for feedstock.

So, I'll let others discuss their state's particulars, but for Nebraska, a drive to promote renewables — corn stover ethanol in particular — is precisely the wisest state policy.

Currently, corn stover sells for $ 40 ton.

Poet - DSM process utilizes yeast and enzymes to convert corn stover material to fermentable c5 and c6 sugars to ethanol.

The facility is a two ton per day biorefinery which uses corn stover as feedstock — meaning the residual corn leaves, husks, and stalks left after harvest are used as the raw materials from which the fuel is derived.

Michael Blaylock, Ph.D., vp of systems development at Edenspace Systems, reported on the status of Energy Corn ™, a feedstock designed to lower the cost of producing cellulosic biofuels from corn stover.

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.

Why not make ethanol from corn stover?

Economists have recently done field studies to determine just how much the feedstocks — the grasses, wood chips, straw, or corn stover — actually cost to grow, harvest, and get to a biofuels plant.

Suh, K., Suh, S. 2010: Economic and environmental implications of corn stover densification options for biofuel in Minnesota, Transactions of ASABE, 53 (4): 1183 - 1192

No venture capitalist is going to build a cellulosic ethanol plant without a market for the ethanol, and a supply of wood chips, switchgrass, waste paper, corn stover....

One pathway uses corn stover for feedstock, the other... Read more →

One calculation by Robert Brown, director of the Office of Biorenewables Programs at Iowa State University, revealed that if the U.S. adopted a cap and trade program in CO2 emissions like the one already in place in the European Union, farmers in the Midwest could almost double their income by using corn stover — the leaves, stalks and cobs that remain after harvest — to fuel pyrolysis.

Not exact matches

The Environmental Protection Agency's own analysis, which assumed about half of corn residue would be removed from fields, found that fuel made from corn residue, also known as stover, would meet the standard in the energy law.

To get the correct carbon score of corn ethanol, the inputs must be distributed fairly across all the co-products — fuel, distillers grains feed, corn oil, cobs and stover, etc..

Current biomass waste yield per acre from this year's corn crop (165 bushels per acre), for cobs and stover, is about 4.5 tons per acre biomass only.

I expect that corn can be a worthwhile part of a sustainable energy future, but by making use of the stover as an additional energy supply rather than the grain.