Sentences with phrase «plants into ethanol»

The biofuel industry is built around the idea that turning plants into ethanol creates a carbon - neutral fuel cycle.

Indeed, biofuels aren't really a stretch — humans have been using microorganisms to ferment plants into ethanol ever since Stone Age people began making beer around 10,000 B.C. Today's work hinges on engineering a perfect microbe that will eat the entirety of a plant, retain only a little of this food for itself and spew out the rest as a high - energy fuel.

In the last few years, some refineries began converting the inedible parts of corn plants into ethanol, Chundawat said.

Not exact matches

The endless fields of corn and soybeans blur into the expanses of the American Middle West, fly - over country, where ethanol plants and windmill farms have sprouted in recent years but nothing much makes the national news.

A few years later, LifeLine Foods and ICM Inc., the world leader in ethanol facility design and engineering, formed a joint venture to transform the corn mill into the country's first corn - processing plant that utilizes a proprietary technology developed by ICM to produce food and fuel simultaneously.

We've used yeast to convert plant cellulose and starch into biofuels like ethanol for decades; however, the process still isn't efficient, and scientists are genetically altering yeast to change that.

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 handing me goggles and a hard hat, Foust and engineer Dan Schell usher me into the lab's pilot ethanol plant.

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.

By turning crops such as corn, sugarcane and palm oil into biofuels — whether ethanol, biodiesel, or something else — proponents hope to reap the benefits of the carbon soaked up as the plants grow to offset the carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted when the resulting fuel is burned.

Yeast and other microbes can ferment plant sugars into ethanol, a gasoline additive.

Commercial - scale efforts have existed for over a hundred years that convert corn, sugar cane and other plant - based substances into a wide array of products, ranging from fuel such as corn - based ethanol to ingredients in many consumer goods, such as soap and detergents.

Together the two plants would produce, at best, 22 million gallons of ethanol a year by using sulfuric acid to break the lignocellulose bonds and then burning the leftover lignin to power fermentation of the cellulose into ethanol.

BlueFire has already operated such a plant to convert wood waste into ethanol in Japan to demonstrate the feasibility of the technology.

The CO2 will come from a plant that processes corn into multiple products, including corn syrup, food chemicals and ethanol.

«The challenge is breaking down cellulose (plant) material, using enzymes, into sugars that can be fermented into ethanol,» he said.

Previous studies on switchgrass plots suggested that ethanol made from the plant would yield anywhere from 343 % to 700 % of the energy put into growing the crop and processing it into biofuel.

Plus, this process, reported in Nature, works faster than the several days it takes Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast to ferment plant sugars into ethanol, because it is chemically controlled and therefore can be completed in hours.

Plants are one way to capture the energy from the sun, and if you can break down the complex sugars — which is what cellulases do — into simple sugars, then the simple sugars can drive the metabolism and things like fermentation to produce ethanol.

When it comes to using plant waste to mitigate climate change, most people think of turning it into ethanol or biodiesel for use as a fuel.

But making that dream a reality could harm local environments and would require developing new technology to harvest, process and convert such plant material into biofuels such as ethanol.

Such cellulosic ethanol from native plants would also require technological breakthroughs to efficiently convert plant leaves, stems and other inedible parts into fuel.

Now, Brazil hopes to tap into a new biofuel source: second - generation ethanol, produced from the tough cellulose in plant stalks.

This is one of the first steps in converting complex plant materials into simple forms that can be fermented into ethanol for fuel.

The prevailing approach to biofuels production is to convert plant sugars from traditional food crops into ethanol using centuries - old fermentation practices.

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

Tina Engels of Chicago paints her soft - edged «Still Life with Shell» (2011) in a careful arrangement with dried flowers; Amy MacLennan from St. Louis paints broad gestures in «Lilac Study Gold» (2010) and makes her «Ethanol Plant, Peoria» dissolve into the landscape.

The key factors determining carbon emissions for corn - based ethanol are (1) whether coal or natural gas is used to power the ethanol plant, (2) whether distillers grains are dried or sold wet, and (3) whether expansion of corn acreage comes mainly from reduced acreage of lower - value crops or if idled land is brought into production.

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.

Here in Michigan, you're actually a step ahead of the game with your first - ever commercial cellulosic ethanol plant, which will lead the way by turning wood into clean - burning fuel.

The production of ethanol for fuel in the US uses huge amounts of land, some of which was brought back into production for this purpose, large amounts of energy to the point there is probably a net loss, major water consumption, and little savings in net CO2 emissions (which are plant food anyway.)

While there continue to be high hopes that biofuels made from plant products like corncobs and switchgrass can help meet our growing energy needs, one major obstacle has been the cost of enzymes which are used to break down these tough plant parts into simple sugars that can be turned into ethanol.

The researchers examined three ways of using sunlight to power cars: a) the traditional method of converting corn or other plants to ethanol; b) converting energy crops into electricity for BEVs rather than producing ethanol; and C) using PVs to convert sunlight directly into electricity for BEVs.

The above figures can not be proven true but the result seems to indicate that ethanol from plants is too costly now in terms of CO2 release when alternate non fuel growth on the land is factored into the equations.

Instead of harnessing the sun's energy to convert carbon dioxide into plant food, artificial photosynthesis seeks to use the same starting ingredients to produce chemical precursors commonly used in synthetic products as well as fuels like ethanol.

As long as the economics are there, he says, «Someone will build an ethanol plant and turn corn into fuel and make a bunch of money.»

A major focus will be on understanding how to reengineer biological processes for more efficient conversion of plant fiber, or cellulose, into ethanol, a substitute for gasoline.

So some of the cellulose ethanol plants actually built and functional can't afford to go into production.

Using data from corn ethanol plant technologies and smaller - scale switchgrass conversion studies, Vogel estimated that an average of 60 GJ per hectare could be obtained if the switchgrass were converted into bioethanol.

Nuclear energy is a quick fix that could ruin the earth for future generations.Burning down the Amazon to plant other plants we can burn [ethanol and bio diesel] kind of defeats the purpose of trying to reduce CO2 because the Amazon is what will turn the CO2 back into Oxygen.

Now, on the site of an old cabbage farm 9 miles from Medina, New York Energy is building an 87 million dollar ethanol plant to turn 20 million bushels of corn into 50 million gallons of fuel.

By the way, what about the plants which will need to be built to process the grass into ethanol?

Shell was the first of the big oil companies to venture significantly into the new biofuels, getting its toes wet in 2002 by providing money to a Canadian company called Iogen Corporation to research making ethanol from plant waste.