Sentences with phrase «plant biomass into»

He has been a member of various federal research panels, served on several editorial boards and advisory committees in microbiology, and helped author reports for DOE on solar energy generation and the conversion of plant biomass into biofuels.

They found that the enzymes easily broke down the cellulose in plant biomass into glucose at temperatures up to 80 degrees Celsius.

«For example, this could help us develop bacterial strains that are more efficient at converting plant biomass into liquid fuels.»

The Escherichia coli (E. coli) is able to tolerate the liquid salt used to break apart plant biomass into sugary polymers.

Not exact matches

With these experimental results, it is shown that, using the carboxylate - type liquid zwitterion, plant biomass could be converted into ethanol in a single reaction pot without washing / separation processes.

After dissolving plant biomass by the novel solvent, carboxylate - type liquid zwitterion, hydrolysis and fermentation were consecutively carried out in one reaction pot for conversion into ethanol.

«Maybe if we can transfer the genetic information to make these oils into quicker growing organisms like other algae that grow a lot quicker or a land plant that can produce large amounts of biomass, we can have them produce oil for us.»

«Each of these 10 genomes encodes for a unique composition of CAZymes — and the wider assortment helps formulate enzyme cocktails better suited for different types of plant biomass to efficiently convert them into biofuels,» Grigoriev said.

One approach to tapping into all that biomass focuses on cellulose, the material that gives plant cells their strong walls.

There, it will be integrated into the gas flows of a biomass gasification plant utilizing wooden residues.

LTU Green Fuels is one of the world's most advanced pilot plants for gasification of various types of biomass into synthesis gas and green fuels.

In order to characterize the biological properties of soil treated with biochar, the team incorporated torrefied plant residual biomass from the biodiesel crop Jatropha curcas into aridisol, a type of soil found in arid regions such as Botswana, and compared several soil properties with samples that had not been treated.

«This study addresses this knowledge gap by showing that warming increased plant biomass, but also redistributes carbon into the soil resulting in no change in soil [carbon] stocks.»

Researchers from Harvard University has successfully developed an artificial photosynthesis system that can convert solar energy into biomass more efficiently than the fastest - growing plants.

Some technologies focus on improved ways of breaking down biomass for conversion into fuel, some on engineering plants with the characteristics most advantageous for biofuels, and still others on creating co-products that can help make advanced biofuels economically viable.

Through sequencing of ninety - nine moose stomach microbiomes, a study led by Anders Andersson (KTH / SciLifeLab) and Henrik Aspeborg (KTH) has provided new insights into microbial plant biomass degradation.

But, ultimately, all biomass energy comes from photosynthesis: plants using sunlight to convert CO2 in the atmosphere into all the carbon - based building blocks of life.

«It's similar to a plant leaf that converts carbon dioxide and water with sunlight into sugar molecules and biomass, but it's a nonbiological engineered system.»

Complete restoration of deforested areas is unrealistic, yet 100 GtC carbon drawdown is conceivable because: (1) the human - enhanced atmospheric CO2 level increases carbon uptake by some vegetation and soils, (2) improved agricultural practices can convert agriculture from a CO2 ource into a CO2 sink [174], (3) biomass - burning power plants with CO2 capture and storage can contribute to CO2 drawdown.

Ordinarily, it is wasted when plant biomass, including cellulose, is converted into biofuels like ethanol.

Here's how it works: Grass plants convert solar energy (and atmospheric carbon dioxide) into plant biomass, and the cow synthesizes that plant material into her own energy via the cellulose - digesting microbes in her rumen.

Power plants that convert heat into steam include coal fired, biomass fired, and waste ‐ to ‐ energy plants.

-- Finally, they have a 12 MW Enfield biomass CHP plant all approved, and ready to move into its development phase.

My post addressed the idea of using algae to recycle emissions from fossil fuel plants into new biomass, which could be used a number of ways.

Their potential use is limited, though, because plants typically convert less than 1 percent of solar energy into biomass.

Plants absorb this released CO2 and convert it into biomass through photosynthesis.

Expressed in financial terms, the health costs linked to biomass burning for power generation run into billions of euros each year, with health costs associated with emissions from former coal and co-fired plants amounting to 137,000 euros per year on average for every megawatt of electrical capacity installed.

You take the CO2 out of the power plant [inaudible 00:13:05] from the biomass, put it into the ground and repeat the cycle, and you're essentially pumping CO2 out of the air and under ground.

My Clean Break column today takes a closer look at efforts by Ontario Power Generation to convert some of its coal - fired generating assets into biomass - burning power plants, including potentially several units at its Nanticoke Generating Station — North America's largest coal plant.

Complete restoration of deforested areas is unrealistic, yet 100 GtC carbon drawdown is conceivable because: (1) the human - enhanced atmospheric CO2 level increases carbon uptake by some vegetation and soils, (2) improved agricultural practices can convert agriculture from a CO2 ource into a CO2 sink [174], (3) biomass - burning power plants with CO2 capture and storage can contribute to CO2 drawdown.

And as has been conclusively demonstrated in literally thousands of scientific studies, the more CO2 we put into the air, the better plants grow, producing greater amounts of biomass and becoming more efficient at using water, and better able to cope with environmental stresses such as pollution and high temperatures.

According to their data, it does not all go into creating plant biomass.

Plant cover captures carbon dioxide, stores it into biomass and releases oxygen through photosynthesis.

The balance is going somewhere else and the best science says most of it is going into an increase in global plant biomass.

The main natural sinks are the oceans and plants and other organisms that use photosynthesis to remove carbon from the atmosphere by incorporating it into biomass.

In 1984, I converted brick plants from burning fossil fuels to burning biomass that was being dumped in landfills, where it turned into methane gas.

This can happen naturally, as growing trees and plants turn CO2 into biomass (wood, leaves, and so on).