Sentences with phrase «such cellulosic»

Because so little energy is required to cultivate crops such as switchgrass for cellulosic ethanol production, and because electricity can be co-produced using the residues of such cellulosic fuel production, reductions in greenhouse gas emissions for celluslosic ethanol when compared to gasoline are greater than 100 per cent.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is partially funding the construction of six such cellulosic biorefineries, estimated to cost a total of $ 1.2 billion.

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

As it stands, such cellulosic biorefineries get their materials either from the residue of conventional crops, such as corn stover, or from harvesting trees.

Not exact matches

As a result, both private companies like UOP, government agencies like DARPA and commercial organizations such as CAAFI have begun to consider a broader array of sources, including the oil from the seeds of Brazil's babassu palm tree or the conversion of the woody or cellulosic parts of plants.

Given the potential benefits, Congress has provided $ 10 million in funding — and the DOE has asked for $ 30 million more — to develop a second facility employing the process, as well as millions more for similar cellulosic biorefineries, such as the Range Fuels plant in Soperton, Ga., that converts wood waste into fuel.

This allows cellulosic materials such as plant stems, wood chips and cardboard waste, as well as other tricky polysaccharides such as insect / crustacean shells, to be broken down.

«One of the reasons for interest in these second - generation cellulosic feedstocks is that if they can be grown on low - quality soil, they wouldn't compete for land with food crops, such as corn.

Such a glut of cellulosic biofuel, if realized, would reduce greenhouse gas emissions — compared with oil that otherwise would have been burned — by 44 teragrams (44 billion kilograms) per year.

Gasoline - like fuels can be made from cellulosic materials such as farm and forestry waste using a new process invented by chemists at the University of California, Davis.

Date: February 3, 2014; Source: University of California - Davis; Summary: Gasoline - like fuels can be made from cellulosic materials such as farm and forestry waste using a new process.

Biomass waste has a new use beyond cellulosic ethanol or electricity, thanks to Hidetaka Kawakita, a Japanese university professor who figured out a way to get trash such as paper and rotten fruit to reclaim precious metals from e-waste.

Karen Street wrote: «If we're going to address climate change, it's going to start with solutions experts agree on (efficiency, low - GHG sources such as nuclear, carbon capture and storage, wind, geothermal, cellulosic biofuels, and eventually solar)...»

If we're going to address climate change, it's going to start with solutions experts agree on (efficiency, low - GHG sources such as nuclear, carbon capture and storage, wind, geothermal, cellulosic biofuels, and eventually solar), and processes that experts agree on (increasing the cost of GHG emissions, funding more R&D, mandates sometimes).

This will require some technological breakthroughs since the production of ethanol from such sources as switch grass require the use of cellulosic enzymes whose economical production has not been perfected yet.

The study also found that both BTL - RC - CCS (biomass - to - liquids, with recycling of unconverted syngas to maximize FTL output and CCS) and cellulosic ethanol with CCS (EtOH - CCS) have negative GHGI emission values that can be exploited to offset GHG missions from difficult to decarbonize energy sources such as transportation fuels derived from crude oil.

It will still take massive amounts of land to produce the inputs necessary to create cellulosic ethanol, and these inputs must be cheap enough such that they make it into the market place.

Work is now under way to develop efficient technologies to convert cellulosic materials such as switchgrass, woodchips, wheat straw, and corn stalks into ethanol.

Other bioenergy fuels such as wood chips, cellulosic ethanol, methanol, sugar cane and biodiesel have their own distinct lifecycle fuel inputs and carbon emissions, raising the thorny issue of assessing and taxing their lifecycle carbon emissions.

Serious efforts to find an economically sound and carbon - smart biological - based fuel — such as cellulosic ethanol (like soy) or algae and bacteria - derived fuel.

The article also says that clean energy technologies and fuels that are supposed to replace oil, such as cellulosic ethanol, are not ready for prime time.

«When hemp is legalized, land grant universities across the nation will develop cultivars suitable to different growing regions to enhance yield and explore innovative uses such as cellulosic ethanol.»

For example, we are working with the Renewable Energy Group, Inc. to study the production of biodiesel by fermenting renewable cellulosic sugars from sources such as agricultural waste.

Under the agreement, Cooper Marine & Timberlands («CMT») will supply BlueFire's Fulton, Mississippi project with all of the feedstock required to produce approximately 19 - million gallons of ethanol per year from locally sourced cellulosic materials such as wood chips, forest residual chips, pre-commercial thinnings and urban wood waste such as construction waste, storm debris, land clearing; or manufactured wood waste from furniture manufacturing.

Such biomass, or cellulosic, ethanol is now likely to see commercial production begin first in a facility of the Canadian company, Iogen, with backing from Shell Oil, at a cost of around $ 1.30 / gallon.

In the next two to five years, the energy - efficient production of ethanol from cellulosic biomass such as wheat and rice straw, hemp, flax, and corn stalks will become commercially viable.

Washington is already producing such low - carbon biofuels, but has the potential to produce significantly more: used cooking oil, animal fat, canola, and cellulosic sources such as hybrid poplar trees could collectively generate hundreds of millions of gallons of clean fuels every year.

[3] Helioculture allows for brackish water or graywater, nonindustrial waste water from sources such as baths and washing machines, [4] to be used, while traditional biofuels such as cellulosic ethanol require fresh water.

(Sec. 1514) Directs the EPA Administrator to: (1) establish an Advanced Biofuel Technologies Program to demonstrate advanced technologies for the production of alternative transportation fuels; (2) give priority to projects that enhance the geographical diversity of alternative fuels production and utilize feedstocks that represent 10 % or less of domestic ethanol or biodiesel fuel production during the previous fiscal year; and (3) fund demonstration projects to develop conversion technologies for producing cellulosic biomass ethanol, and for coproducing value - added bioproducts (such as fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides) resulting from biodiesel fuel production.

Cellulosic ethanol proponents have pushed the idea of using farm waste as a way to boost biofuel production without impacting food crops, but such conversion may carry a hidden cost in areas with insufficient rainfall or lacking irrigation, warns a soil scientist from Washington State University.

By deriving it from inedible plant matter such as switchgrass, wood chips, and wheat straw, the hope is that cellulosic ethanol could supplement our transportation fuels in a way that is more efficient and has fewer harmful impacts on the environment and food prices than corn - based ethanol.

For example, starch from corn grown in the midwest has traditionally been the source of some of the ethanol used as a fuel additive in the U.S.. Another option for the conversion of cellulosic biomass, such as hemp stalks, to ethanol is their hydrolysis to sugar, followed by fermentation and removal of the produced ethanol by distillation.

In recent years, the production of ethanol — a proven vehicle fuel — from cellulosic biomass, such as cereal straw or wood, has moved into the commercial demonstration phase.

Oklahoma Bioenergy Center (OBC), a state - initiative championed by Gov. Brad Henry, secured land to enable the planting of more than 1,100 acres of production - scale demonstration fields for cellulosic energy crops, such as switch grass and sorghum to contribute to the United States» bioenergy effort.

As freakish as this event is, I wish a better way to recycle the wood waste was in place, such as cellulosic ethanol and biochar and bio-oil.

The next generation of bioenergy technology aims to replace current feedstocks such as corn, sorghum, sugarcane, rapeseed, soy, and oil palm with dedicated cellulosic crops (Kszos et al. 2000; Heaton et al. 2008b), such as woody tree species and the grasses switchgrass (Panacum vergatum) and miscanthus (Miscanthus x giganteus)(Lewandowski et al. 2000).

Cellulosic ethanol companies convert agricultural or forestry residues into ethanol, while portable generators use similar feedstock, such as wood chips, to make electricity.

Since cellulosic ethanol is created by using all of the parts of the plant being used (instead of the 10 %, mainly the edible part, of the plant), in all likelihood, if this process turns out to work as advertised, we could use the discarded parts of corn, or non-edible plants such as switchgrass, so food production would not have to be drastically increased.

Advanced biofuels (such as cellulosic ethanol) have made important progress in recent years but are not yet competitive with petroleum products.