Sentences with phrase «sugar into ethanol»

Researchers there are engineering a microbe that combines the last two stages of ethanol production: converting cellulose into sugar, and turning sugar into ethanol.

The fungus ferments sugar into ethanol, the process used to make wine and beer.

The biotech companies Genencor and Novozymes have developed enzymes that convert starches into sugars and ferment the sugars into ethanol in a single step, streamlining the process.

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

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.

Yeast in rising dough converts sugars into ethanol.

This organism, discovered several years ago in Massachusetts, is a natural consolidated bioprocessor, expresses requisite enzymes for the extraction of fermentable sugars from biomass, and co-ferments all the C5 and C6 sugars into ethanol.

That's the essential promise of CBP — by having a magic bug that will extract sugars from biomass, and at the same time ferment those sugars into ethanol, you have a smaller, more consolidated design — compared to systems that have hydrolysis, and then move the sugary broth to a fermenter system to convert into ethanol.

Not exact matches

And Brazil, arguably the world leader in making ethanol from crops, has been turning sugar cane into fuel for nearly three decades — a process that is 30 % cheaper than corn - based production in the U.S.

Seeking to find alternatives to ethanol as a fuel, the study established optimal pre-treatment conditions for turning straw lignocelluloses and barley starch into fermentable sugars that -LSB-...]

They have managed to solve a problem that has long bedeviled ethanol researchers: how best to split cellulose into simple sugars that can be fermented into alcohol.

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.

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

A key issue is the conversion of existing corn ethanol and sugarcane ethanol facilities into integrated cellulose / starch / sugar production facilities.

Iogen Corporation has furthered this technology by developing enzymes to convert tough, sugar - bearing cellulose in inexpensively produced agricultural waste into ethanol (opposite page, top).

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.

The team focused on yeast in part because of its important modern - day applications; yeasts are used to convert the sugars of biomass feedstocks into biofuels such as ethanol and industrial chemicals such as lactic acid, or to break down organic pollutants.

Once they are extracted, the sugars are fermented into an alcohol — like ethanol or butanol — that can then be used as a fuel.

Mascoma has developed yeast that can be dropped into all cellulosic ethanol fermentation processes to increase yields by fermenting the full array of sugars present in cellulosic fermentations, and by secreting enzymes (cellulases and hemicellulases) that can improve hydrolysis yields.

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

Then they wait for the hungry bacteria to turn sugars in the corn into ethanol, a type of alcohol.

These carbohydrates are then exposed to enzymes that turn the carbohydrates into sugars that can be fermented to make ethanol or butanol.

Our results clearly showed that regardless of the carbohydrate content, marked decreases in the incorporation of labeled sugars into transferrin and the enzymatic activities of galactosyltransferase and sialyltrans - ferase occurred in rats administered chronic ethanol.

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.

Fast - growing sugarcane on highly fertile land in Brazil, for example, converts only around 0.5 percent of incoming solar radiation into sugar, and only around 0.2 percent ultimately into ethanol.

Sugars can be turned into ethanol, which can be burned as a fuel.

But researchers in Spain have discovered a way to break down the stone's cellulosic fibers into sugars that can be fermented to make ethanol.

The team is studying a bacterium, or bioprocessing microbe, that can break down cellulosic biomass into sugars for fermenting into ethanol.

Our new microorganism, called TM242, can efficiently convert the longer - chain sugars from woody biomass materials into ethanol.

In the United States, the sugar - cane industry has had little incentive to diversify into ethanol production because import quotas support U.S. sugar prices far above world levels.

So it created a system to convert the sugar - rich wet wastes (apparently, U.S. soldiers drink a good amount of Kool - Aid) into a form of ethanol.

In 2006, a mere 6.2 million hectares was cultivated for BOTH sugar and ethanol and only HALF of this sugar went into ethanol.

The picture says sugars are distilled into ethanol.

Then there's Brazil, where the infrastructure to produce ethanol from sugar cane has transformed a formerly poor part of the country into one of relative sufficiency if not affluence — and decreased pollution and petroleum dependence.