Sentences with phrase «making ionic liquids»

Now, Seema Singh and colleagues at the Joint BioEnergy Institute and other US institutions have developed a closed - loop system that could potentially reduce the cost and environmental impact of making ionic liquids suitable for biomass processing.

«This is the first time I have heard of anybody using biomass to make ionic liquids,» says George Huber, who investigates biofuel production at University of Wisconsin - Madison.

The researchers made their ionic liquids using furfural, vanillin and p - anisaldehyde, which are aromatic aldehydes derived from lignin and cellulose.

But what makes ionic liquids great for deconstruction also makes it harmful for the downstream enzymes and bacteria used in biofuel production.

Not exact matches

I use ionic liquid Mega Mag from the people who make Concentrace minerals, Trace Minerals Research.

Ionic liquids — salts that are liquid at room temperature — could potentially be made more cheaply and greenly by recycling by - products from biofuel production processes, according to US researchers.

«Using by - product from biofuel production to convert it into ionic liquids closes the loop and make the process sustainable, non-toxic and much cheaper than petroleum - based ionic liquids.»

The researchers began by making a number of liquid salts called «protic ionic liquids» or PILs.

An ionic liquid is a salt that is melted at room temperature, making it liquid without being dissolved in a solvent.

«Armed with the rcdA variant, we were able to engineer a strain of E. coli that could not only tolerate ionic liquid, but that could also produce ionic - liquid - tolerant enzymes that chew up the cellulose, make sugars, eat it and make biofuels,» said Frederix.

But Graetzel and his colleagues recently discovered that by substituting ionic liquids — liquids made up of charged particles, imidazolium iodide in this case — they could maintain the efficiency and pose no risk of evaporation.

Can you use liquid ionic magnesium to make the topical spray.