The furfural and p - anisaldehyde derived ionic liquids performed best with both providing 90 — 95 % glucose and 70 — 75 % xylose yields from
switchgrass after 72 hours incubation with digestive enzymes.
Not exact matches
After a much - quoted warning that «America is addicted to oil» in this year's State of the Union address, President Bush called for «cutting - edge methods of producing ethanol, not just from corn but from wood chips and stalks or
switchgrass.
Researchers found that
after 24 weeks, about 40 percent of total PCB mass had been removed by the
switchgrass - treated soil, significantly higher than the 30 percent removed from untreated soil.
After crunching the numbers, Vogel and his colleagues found that ethanol produced from
switchgrass yields 540 % of the energy used to grow, harvest, and process it into ethanol.
After treating a common cellulosic biofuels plant called
switchgrass with a compound known as an ionic liquid (IL) to break apart the plant fibers and reduce the lignin, the researchers added their engineered E. coli.
And yet the laws require that production from biodiesel, corn ethanol, and advanced biofuels (from
switchgrass, etc.) climbs steadily year
after year.