Sentences with phrase «waste into ethanol»

Plenty of people are working on turning wood waste into ethanol, but Enerkem is doing wood chips, yard waste, and building scraps

CNN interviewed BlueFire's CEO Arnold Klann about the new way to turn organic waste into ethanol that you can use with gas in your car.

Researchers continue to struggle to develop «second generation» biofuels that they hope will use enzymes to turn cellulose from wood and crop waste into ethanol.

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).

BlueFire has already operated such a plant to convert wood waste into ethanol in Japan to demonstrate the feasibility of the technology.

These «biorefineries» will convert widely available, inexpensive, organic materials such as agricultural residues, high - content biomass crops, wood residues, and cellulose in municipal solid wastes into ethanol.

Not exact matches

Each day the facility would convert 1,000 tons of wood chips and waste from Georgia's vast pulp and paper industry into 274,000 gallons of ethanol.

When it comes to using plant waste to mitigate climate change, most people think of turning it into ethanol or biodiesel for use as a fuel.

In a new twist to waste - to - fuel technology, scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory [ORNL] have developed an electrochemical process that uses tiny spikes of carbon and copper to turn carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, into ethanol.

Ordinarily, it is wasted when plant biomass, including cellulose, is converted into biofuels like ethanol.

With Tom Roche Junior taking the helm after his father passed away in 1999, NTR had ambitiously transformed itself into a developer & operator in renewable energy (solar, wind & corn - based ethanol) and sustainable waste management — in Ireland, the UK & across the US.

And while I'm not personally a fan of ethanol, the plant described at the following link seems to address many of the concerns about ethanol and big - scale farming by treating wastes from one process as feedstock into another and reducing the amount of energy required at each stage.

You then take that ethanol and burn it into an internal combustion engine that is maybe 20 - 30 % efficient, and you end up with a tremendous amount of wasted energy... And you've used up farmland that could instead have grown food for human consumption, increasing food prices by reducing supply.

Wasting corn by turning it into ethanol is economically foolish.

Exciting new technologies are assisting with this transition: some convert fast growing grasses to ethanol using biochemistry, some convert waste into gases (a mix of hydrogen and carbon monoxide called synthesis gas) that are then converted into ethanol, and others use algae or other microorganisms to make fuel directly from water or sunlight.

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.

BlueFire brags that using its Concentrated Acid Hydrolysis Technology, it will be able to convert cellulosic waste into 3.2 million gallons of ethanol per year.

Shell was the first of the big oil companies to venture significantly into the new biofuels, getting its toes wet in 2002 by providing money to a Canadian company called Iogen Corporation to research making ethanol from plant waste.

Led by Abolghasem Shabazi, the work centers around harvesting cattails from hog - waste lagoons, drying them and processing them into ethanol.

To prevent overheating (a problem in earlier designs), the wet waste is converted into a form of ethanol, treated with enzymes to form hydrous ethanol, and then blended with the gas.