Sentences with phrase «in camelina»

By modifying the oilseed biochemistry in camelina, the researchers have achieved very high levels of an oil with reduced viscosity and improved cold temperature characteristics.

Not exact matches

Bio-jet fuels derived from oil - rich feedstocks, such as camelina and algae, have been successfully tested in proof of concept flights.

As the company has demonstrated elsewhere in the world, it is possible to make jet fuel from plant oils — whether they come from jatropha seeds, the flowering weed camelina or any other oil - producing plant.

In a push toward greener fuels, the Air Force has modified some of these jets to fly on a biofuel derived from camelina, a relative of the mustard plant.

Oilseed crops, including rapeseed, canola, and camelina, contain some of the same bioactive ingredients — namely, glucosinolates and flavonoids — found in broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables and in nearly the same quantities, she noted.

Most camelina varieties are new to cultivation in the United States.

«Growing camelina, safflower in the Pacific Northwest.»

The researcher's wind tunnel «in action» during a test on a camelina plot.

However, it «displayed greater cold and drought tolerance, so the possibility of camelina being viable for particular niches in California should be investigated further,» says Kaffka.

In the first study of camelina's bioactive properties, Berhow isolated four major components — three glucosinolates and the flavonoid quercetin — from its defatted seed meal.

Their findings show that adding camelina or safflower into the crop rotation increased the chances of wind erosion late in the fallow cycle.

A similar study by Michigan Technological University sponsored by UOP found that jet biofuel from camelina could reduce emissions of greenhouse gases by as much as 84 percent and be grown in rotation with wheat crops.

«As had been the case with camelina's GSL9 and quercetin, the combined effect of quercetin and sulforaphane — in proportions found naturally in broccoli — was far greater than when either was used alone.

Camelina grower Sustainable Oils — which provided the camelina oil to make the 1,000 gallons of jet fuel needed for the KLM flight — plans to cover more than 20,000 hectares in Montana with the weedy relative of canola, enough to deliver some 9.5 million liters of raw oil.

AltAir does better by sourcing its bio — jet fuel from oil seed — bearing plants, like camelina, but that limits the amount that can be planted in rotation with food crops like wheat given constraints on the amount of land available for the latter.

Jet fuels derived from algae, camelina and jatropha — plants that pack an energy punch, are not eaten as food and do not displace food crops — could be approved and replacing petroleum fuels in commercial flights as early as next year, a Boeing executive said yesterday.

But he said the United States has the potential to produce about 1 billion gallons of camelina oil a year in areas as diverse as Georgia and New Mexico.

Todaro's firm is growing camelina on fallow fields in Montana, the Dakotas, Idaho, Washington and the High Plains of Texas.

Boeing was involved in all four flights, including a Virgin Atlantic flight using a coconut - and babassu - derived biofuel blend; an Air New Zealand flight using a jatropha - derived biofuel blend; a Continental Airlines flight using a blend of algae - and jatropha - derived biofuel; and a Japan Airlines flight using an algae -, jatropha - and camelina - derived biofuel blend.

The puppies received way to much oil the day before — camelina oil, sardines in olive oil, and coconut oil — it may have been overkill for their little bodies (but they haven't had trouble before).

Non-food plant sources, such as jatropha and camelina, are promising, but difficult to produce in large quantities and can end up displacing food crops or lead to deforestation if the price of fuel rises high enough.

So I went to a goat cheese booth, where a cute man from Redwood Hill Farm in Sonoma County, Calif., sold me some local camelina cheese.