Sentences with phrase «plant feedstocks»

Synthetic genomics may yield microorganisms with novel capabilities, photosynthetic organisms able to generate valuable products directly from CO2, biological systems that increase recovery rates of subsurface hydrocarbons, or advanced plant feedstocks.

«The U.S. and Europe can not produce enough plant feedstocks to meet targets» for biofuel production — even with cellulosic corn — as defined by government mandates, which are largely being driven by a growing demand for energy independence and national security concerns, said Thurmond.

Energy Secretary Chu and Agriculture Secretary Vilsack announced the joint selection of awards of up to $ 6.3 million towards fundamental genomics - enabled research leading to the improved use of plant feedstocks for biofuel production.

«If you're expecting to have hundreds of millions of gallons of jet fuel in the next five years produced from a plant feedstock, it's almost certainly going to be Camelina.»

Not exact matches

Sadly for these towns — and the farmers who might have supplied the plants with feedstock — none of these projects has come to fruition.

The shale - growth - driven natural gas output is expected to bring benefits to the petrochemical industry as manufacturers will continue to enjoy low - cost feedstock for plants in and close to areas where shale gas and natural gas plant liquids production is abundant.

What began in 1989 as a Cargill research project looking for innovative uses of carbohydrates from plants as feedstock for more sustainable plastics has quickly matured into the innovative materials for which we are known today.

The plant has been designed and built for Lake District Biogas, which will operate the site for twenty years taking feedstock -LSB-...]

The plant has been designed and built for Lake District Biogas, which will operate the site for 20 years, taking feedstock from First Milk's creamery site.

On the benefits of the project, Baru said the construction of the plant and the production of cassava feedstock could create at least one million direct and indirect jobs.

In the meantime, efforts to grow Jatropha — already planted in quantity in Africa and India — may be scaled up, whereas other feedstocks that can be rotated with wheat, such as Camelina — a relative of canola — will play a role.

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

Also, while electrolysis uses a renewable feedstock (water), burning fossil fuels at a power plant to run an electrolysis machine undermines the fuel's low - carbon attributes.

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.»

Faster - growing root systems could allow new plants to take hold more quickly, including perennial grasses like switchgrass and Miscanthus, which are considered viable feedstocks for next - generation biofuel.

Nearly 40 percent will be feedstock for a 30 - million - gallon - per - year biodiesel plant run by Western Energy Solutions / Concord Blue USA.

Acetylene, a hydrocarbon that's often found in the gas feedstocks that are used at polyethylene plants, damages the catalysts that producers use to convert ethylene to polyethylene.

The researchers also tested the different microbes» performance with minimal pretreatment of the plant materials, indicating it may be possible to reduce or eliminate use of heat and chemicals that make the feedstock accessible to biological processing.

Overall, coal - fired power plants and motor vehicles spew out most of the nation's nitrogen oxides, the feedstock for nitric acid rain.

Even if researchers discover how to regulate complex sugars in secondary cell walls in biofuel feedstocks, the next challenge will be finding how much lignin the plants can do without and still remain healthy.

Similarly, carbon and resulting sugars channeled to stems and leaves increases their mass and creates more plant biomass, a bioenergy feedstock.

Not only do Quinn and her colleagues want to see more industry adoption of low - invasive feedstock plants, they also want state and federal governments to step up regulations and communicate more clearly between agencies.

«The average efficiency of livestock converting plant feed to meat is less than 3 %, and as we eat more meat, more arable cultivation is turned over to producing feedstock for animals that provide meat for humans.

Quinn said most previous studies on potential biofuel plants, or feedstocks, focused on identifying highly invasive ones that should be avoided if possible.

If sufficient hydrogen is available, nearly all of the carbon in the coal or biomass feedstock to a Fischer - Tropsch plant would end up in the fuel products and not in the air, eliminating the need to capture and sequester carbon dioxide, the authors said.

Alliance DCL will market the technologies and anticipates offering project - specific services, from feedstock characterization, pilot plant evaluation, feasibility studies and engineering design through plant start - up and ongoing technical support.

JBEI's Feedstocks Division collaborated with Sandia National Laboratories in a study that looked into efficient ways to turn discarded plant matter into chemicals.

One of these solutions is to improve plants as bioenergy feedstocks, which is an achievable goal, according to Donohue.

Research in this program involves work with plants, fungi, and bacteria and is focused on four key areas: feedstock development, biomass depolymerization, biofuels production, and waste management.

This has significance and potential impact for agriculture and the national economy in the form of developing potential biofuels feedstocks, understanding host - pathogen interactions, and improving crop plant biomass.

And while I'm not personally a fan of ethanol, the plant described at the following link seems to address many of the concerns about ethanol and big - scale farming by treating wastes from one process as feedstock into another and reducing the amount of energy required at each stage.

Just been looking up the sources for commercial CO2 and here is a short exerpt from google: «The most common operations from which commercially - produced carbon dioxide is recovered are industrial plants which produce hydrogen or ammonia from natural gas, coal, or other hydrocarbon feedstock, and large - volume fermentation operations in which plant products are made into ethanol for human consumption, automotive fuel or industrial use.

It is not clear right now if there is any site in the US where this much biomass feedstock could be provided to a plant year - round at economical cost.

It is used in power generation, primarily for cooling thermal power plants; in the extraction, transport and processing of fuels; and, increasingly, in irrigation to grow biomass feedstock crops.

The U.S. government considers biodiesel to be carbon - neutral because the plants that are the sources of the feedstocks for making biodiesel, such as soybeans and palm oil trees, absorb carbon dioxide (CO2) as they grow.

An experiment by Argonne National Laboratory in Central Illinois explores the potential of formerly overlooked plants such as willow and switchgrass for bioenergy feedstock, offering farmers a possibly lucrative use for difficult land and preventing nitrogen pollution to boot.

They exclude it based on the theory that this release of carbon dioxide is matched and implicitly «offset» by the carbon dioxide absorbed by the plants growing the biomass feedstock.

This analysis focuses on perennial biomass, and models both woody and herbaceous plants as the main source of feedstock for dedicated electricity generation and combined heat and power generation.

Feedstocks can include more durable material such as woody biomass and wastes that are not broken down in traditional anaerobic digester plants.

The most common feedstocks will likely be agricultural wastes, such as rice straw, or natural grasses such as switchgrass, a variety of prairie grass that is often planted on soil bank land to replenish the soil's fertility.

biomass the total quantity of living matter in a particular habitat; plant and organic waste materials used as fuel and feedstock in place of fossil fuels

The Fulton, Miss. project will allow BlueFire to use green and wood wastes available in the region as feedstock for the ethanol plant, which is designed to produce approximately 19 - million gallons of ethanol per year.

The U.S. manufacturing sector is being more productive, thanks to lower costs for the energy to run plants and for feedstock needed to produce a number of manufactured goods.

However, the feedstock of biomass plants can be sustainable produced, while fossil fuels are non-renewable.

The sugarcane would then provide feedstock for an ethanol plant, with leftover cane used to create biomass electricity at night with a nearby solar concentrator complex generating power during the day.

The current growth of coal as a gasification feedstock is largely as a result of new Chinese coal - to - chemicals plants.

Project Drawdown defines perennial biomass as: the use of perennial grasses and coppiced woody plants for bioenergy feedstock, instead of annual crops like corn.

The Gorge Farm AD Plant is proof that locally produced feedstock can generate clean and cost effective distributed power.

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.

Economic Benefits The development of an advanced biofuel industry will help rebuild the local and regional economies devastated as a result of hurricanes Katrina and Rita by providing: (1) increased value to the feedstock crops which will benefit local farmers and provide more revenue to the local community; (2) increased investments in plants and equipment which will stimulate the local economy by providing construction jobs initially and the chance for full - time employment after the plant is completed; (3) secondary employment as associated industries develop due to plant co-products becoming available at a competitive price; and (4) increased local and state revenues collected from plant operations will stimulate local and state tax revenues and provide funds for improvements to the community and to the region.