Sentences with phrase «uses corn stover»

One pathway uses corn stover for feedstock, the other... Read more →

The facility is a two ton per day biorefinery which uses corn stover as feedstock — meaning the residual corn leaves, husks, and stalks left after harvest are used as the raw materials from which the fuel is derived.

«If everything is done right, probably we can use corn stover without other problems, though it might mean you have to grow a cover crop.»

One calculation by Robert Brown, director of the Office of Biorenewables Programs at Iowa State University, revealed that if the U.S. adopted a cap and trade program in CO2 emissions like the one already in place in the European Union, farmers in the Midwest could almost double their income by using corn stover — the leaves, stalks and cobs that remain after harvest — to fuel pyrolysis.

Not exact matches

Incontrast to corn stover, wood wastehas limited potential due to the high cost associated with collection andtransportation (in the case of wood left over from timber harvesting) andcompeting uses (in the case of mill residues, which are currently used formulch, particle board, and to power other facilities).

I expect that corn can be a worthwhile part of a sustainable energy future, but by making use of the stover as an additional energy supply rather than the grain.