Sentences with phrase «using plant cellulose»

There is still a cost to using plant cellulose, but much less than from growing corn just to make gas for our cars.

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To help combat these issues, various companies around the world are developing and using plastics made from plant - based materials such as cornstarch, potato starch and cellulose.

We've used yeast to convert plant cellulose and starch into biofuels like ethanol for decades; however, the process still isn't efficient, and scientists are genetically altering yeast to change that.

Cellulose fibers produced by the model organism Komagataeibacter (Gluconacetobacter) xylinus are very similar to those found in plants (1) and are increasingly used in biotechnology and nanotechnology (2, 3).

To make the new battery, the researchers dissolved cellulose, a plant material used to make paper, in a liquid salt solution.

Together the two plants would produce, at best, 22 million gallons of ethanol a year by using sulfuric acid to break the lignocellulose bonds and then burning the leftover lignin to power fermentation of the cellulose into ethanol.

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

AE Biofuels uses an enzyme - based approach to the production of cellulosic ethanol and has designed our process to be integrated with existing corn ethanol production, in addition to building cellulose - only plants.

But in the freezing and thawing soil layer, sequencing showed that bacteria within the soil samples were producing some intriguing proteins, including enzymes that snip long chains of carbon molecules, like cellulose from plants, into shorter, simpler sugar compounds that the bacteria can use as fuel.

There are also potential industrial and environmental uses: Cellulose and woody stems from plants — in the form of paper, wood, and related materials — account for more than half of the biomass in waste dumps worldwide.

In recent work, Brian Fox and colleagues at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center at the University of Wisconsin - Madison characterized glycoside hydrolases, enzymes that digest cellulose and can be used to turn plants such as switch grass into biofuels.

The tea bag paper used to make our tea bags is manufactured from a specially selected blend of manila hemp fiber derived from the leaf stalks of the abacá plant, cellulose, and thermoplastic fibers, making it strong and durable with a high wet strength.

Cellulose from various plant sources has been used as a paper substrate for thousands of years, dating back to ancient China.

One solution is to be sure that your supplements use vegan gel caps, which are made from cellulose, a plant - derived polysaccharide that would probably be much less at risk of glyphosate contamination.

Biocellulose is a super fine natural fiber that has been bioengineered and woven together using cellulose from plant material such as coconut husks.

Only use these materials if you know for a fact that they are made of natural plant fibers or reconstructed cellulose.

Manufactured pet foods can contain umectants like sugar / sucrose, corn syrup, sorbitol and molasses; antimicrobial preservatives like propionic, sorbic and phosphoric acids, sodium nitrite, sodium and calcium propionate and potassium sorbate; natural coloring agents like iron oxide and caramel, and synthetic coloring agents like coal - tar derived azo - dyes such as Yellow 5, Red 40, Yellow 6, and Blue 2; emulsifying agents used as stabilizers and thickeners, such as seaweed, seed, and microbial gums, gums from trees, and chemically modified plant cellulose like citrus pectin, xanthan and guar gum, and carrageenan; flavor and palatability enhances include «natural» flavors, «animal digest», and even MSG (monosodium glutamate); natural fiber like beet pulp, and miscellaneous additives like polyphosphates that help retain natural moisture, condition and texture of manufactured pet foods.

It's true, she says, that dogs can't digest cellulose - a single structural carbohydrate used by plants to form things like stalks, seed coats, and vegetable structure - but neither can humans (only some herbivores, such as cows, can).

It is true that like humans, dogs can not digest cellulose — a single structural carbohydrate used by plants to form stalks and seed coats.

The problem with forcing «all» vehicles to use x % ethanol and «mandating» cellulose ethanol before a single plant was built.

Cellulose is what plants use to grow there stalks, and produce their vascular tissue.

Researchers are exploring ways to use acid or enzymes to break the cellulose away from the lignin that gives the plant its structure.

Hemp has a higher cellulose level than wood, advocates argue, and therefore the plant could be used for paper to avoid cutting down trees.