Sentences with phrase «stover ethanol»
So, I'll let others discuss their state's particulars, but for Nebraska, a drive to promote renewables — corn stover ethanol in particular — is precisely the wisest state policy.
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Cellulose - loving fungi can cut biofuel costs by enabling existing corn ethanol plants to process cheaper, woody feedstocks such as corn stover
Corn stover — the stalks, leaves and cobs in cornfields after harvest — has been considered a ready resource for cellulosic ethanol production.
The U.S. Department of Energy has provided more than $ 1 billion in federal funds to support research to develop cellulosic biofuels, including ethanol made from corn stover.
Atalla finds that briefly soaking corn stover (the leftover parts of the plant, such as husks) in a solution of sodium hydroxide, ethanol, and water changes the molecular structure of the cellulose, allowing him to convert nearly twice as much of it as is possible with existing methods.
Last February, the Department of Energy selected sixcompanies to receive funding towards building ethanol plants — scheduled to beoperational within the next three years — that will utilize new technology forprocessing corn stover as well as other types of agricultural waste.
An efficient way to break down celluloseinto ethanol is necessary to reduce the cost of processing corn stover on acommercial scale.
«Ethanol made from miscanthus would need a much smaller carbon price to make it desirable to produce and for consumers to purchase as compared to ethanol from switchgrass and corn Ethanol made from miscanthus would need a much smaller carbon price to make it desirable to produce and for consumers to purchase as compared to ethanol from switchgrass and corn ethanol from switchgrass and corn stover.
A handful of other cellulosic ethanol plants, which will make biofuels from corn stover, wheat straw and municipal waste, plan to begin production by next year (ClimateWire, Aug. 5).
Future harvest of corn stover for cellulosic ethanol production would increase erosion (i.e. sedimentation) and nutrient loads from corn land, they said.
One of the best already - in - production prospects for cellulosic ethanol is stover, which is everything left over after harvest.
Poet - DSM process utilizes yeast and enzymes to convert corn stover material to fermentable c5 and c6 sugars to ethanol.
To get the correct carbon score of corn ethanol, the inputs must be distributed fairly across all the co-products — fuel, distillers grains feed, corn oil, cobs and stover, etc..
= 26 Billion Plus gallons of ethanol — just from cobs and stover.
Why not make ethanol from corn stover?
No venture capitalist is going to build a cellulosic ethanol plant without a market for the ethanol, and a supply of wood chips, switchgrass, waste paper, corn stover....