Sentences with phrase «generation biofuel crops»

He is also a part of a team studying the sustainability of second - generation biofuel crops in the U.S.

Not exact matches

But the problem is that most of the ethanol we have right now is when it is talked about it being a first generation biofuel; that is that ethanol fuel is coming from the fermentation of sugars from crops like corn.

Vincent Eijsink at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Ås says research like this could help make possible a new generation of efficient biofuels that don't rely on food crops.

Vincent Eijsink at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Ås says research like this could make possible a new generation of efficient biofuels that don't rely on food crops.

If they can be sourced fairly sustainably, biofuels look promising, particularly «second - generation» biofuels like algae that do not directly compete with food crops.

One of the major problems with biofuels that algae could solve is space, since algae can yield as much as 100 times more fuel per unit area than other so - called «second generation» biofuel crops (e.g. non-food crops or non-food waste parts of food crops).

Straw from crops such as wheat, barley, oats and oilseed rape is seen as a potential source of biomass for second generation biofuel production.

Study author Catherine Bowyer says the next generation of biofuels, made from wastes or wood rather than crops, would have less impact on land use than biofuels made from crops, but «the policy is also not effectively stimulating advancements in biofuel technologies».

A recent study from the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center and published in Environmental Research Letters looks at how efficiently «second generation» biofuel crops — perennial, non-food crops such as switchgrass or native grasses — use rainwater and how these crops affect overall water balance.

Centre for Jatropha Promotion & Biodiesel (CJP) is the Global authority for scientific commercialization of Jatropha & other non-food biofuel crops and designs and implements the growing of non-food biofuel crops worldwide in a structured Agri - Supply chain, Value additions and research activities thereon & provides technology and services from «Soil to Oil» for the breeding, development, planting and harvesting of next - generation commercial biofuel crops CJP has been engaged in promoting sustainable farming for biodiesel production since last one decade and its research findings and on - hand field experiences in respect of various technical, agronomical / silvicultural aspects of plantations of Jatropha have resulted in significant improvements in knowledge and technical background related to Productivity, profitability and sustainability of commercial production of Jatropha oil crop.

The next generation of biofuel types move away from the high costs of edible crops and use either grasses or trees.

[*) Of course the less money one would invest in biofuels, the smaller the incentive to create cheaper and more sustainable newer generation biofuels — derived from algae or crop residue — instead of the whole food crops or forest biomass.]

By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL ROME â $» In the past year, as the diversion of food crops like corn and palm to make biofuels has helped to drive up food prices, investors and politicians have begun promoting newer, so - called second - generation biofuels as the next wave of green energy.

«First generation» biofuels, which are derived from food crops, have attracted the most attention because of their relatively lower prices and advanced state of development.

Researchers continue to struggle to develop «second generation» biofuels that they hope will use enzymes to turn cellulose from wood and crop waste into ethanol.

Such second - generation liquid biofuels produced from woody biomass rather than from food crops would also reduce competition with food production.

Most studies project that second - generation liquid biofuels from perennial crops and woody and agricultural residues could dramatically reduce life cycle greenhouse gas emissions relative to petroleum fuels.

In addition, technological developments are expected to increase future interest in more efficient «second generation» liquid biofuels, which are not derived from food crops, but from plant materials such as agricultural residues, forestry residues, and wood from forest plantations.

3.2 «First generation» liquid biofuels include biodiesel and bioethanol and are derived from various food crops that vary by geographical location, for instance cereals, rapeseed and sugar cane.

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.

There is now growing interest in so - called «second - generation» biofuels, where whole plants are grown and processed specifically for biofuels, rather than parts of food crops, as it is now.

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.»

(Note that the study did not look at first generation biofuels made from tropical crops like sugarcane or sweet sorghum which reduce emissions far more than corn ethanol; for sugarcane ethanol, the reduction is as large as that of cellulosic biofuels, earlier post.)