Sentences with phrase «with switchgrass»

Farmers in Nebraska and the Dakotas brought the U.S. closer to becoming a biofuel economy, planting huge tracts of land for the first time with switchgrass — a native North American perennial grass (Panicum virgatum) that often grows on the borders of cropland naturally — and proving that it can deliver more than five times more energy than it takes to grow it.

«What we saw with switchgrass is that you're actually storing carbon in the soil,» he said.

Plastic containers, each filled with about 5.5 pounds of soil, were planted with switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) seeds.

«With switchgrass, for example, frequently you can not harvest the first year's crop because it takes a long time for the root system to establish,» says study author Philip Benfey, a professor of biology at Duke University and director of Duke's Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy Center for Systems Biology.

Not exact matches

Compared with rows of maize, tufts of switchgrass grown for biofuel have hidden perks, a new study finds.

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.

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.

This means that switchgrass ethanol delivers 540 percent of the energy used to produce it, compared with just roughly 25 percent more energy returned by corn - based ethanol according to the most optimistic studies.

The crystal structure of the enzyme PvHCT from switchgrass (Panicum vulgare) in complex with coenzyme A (CoA) and p - coumaroyl shikimate (5FAL) gives insight into its catalyzing action during the early steps of lignin biosynthesis.

The OurPets Company, based in Fairport Harbor, Ohio, launched Switchgrass Natural Cat Litter with Biochar.

«Our new product in the litter category is the OurPet's Switchgrass Natural Cat Litter with BioChar,» said Rachelle Rabasi, director of marketing for the Fairport Harbor, Ohio - based company.

«The history of cat litter can be broken up into three generations... the third generation of cat litter is natural grass litter like our Switchgrass Natural Cat Litter with BioChar,» says Rabisi.

Switchgrass Natural Cat Litter with BioChar, from OurPets, is a biodegradable, all - natural, sustainable, non-food alternative to corn - or wheat - based natural cat litters.

Alternative energy fuel sources, truly fuel - efficient vehicles and distribution systems to make electricity or fuel made with ethanol or switchgrass are, realistically speaking, at least two decades away.

Switchgrass and hybrid poplars would produce relatively high ethanol yields on marginal lands, but it likely will be another decade before cellulosic ethanol can compete with corn - based ethanol.

The company's technology platform, based on identifying promising cellulose genes, transforming crop plants with candidate genes, and evaluating the effects on growth, yield, and cellulose hydrolysis would be applicable to a variety of energy crops including switchgrass, sorghum, and sugar cane.

In this section, we estimate resource requirements and ancillary damages associated with 1 Pg C y − 1 atmospheric carbon removal using either eucalyptus afforestation or switchgrass BECS.

It seems Ma Nature has got a beef with biofuels and has tossed a wrench into the biofuel industry in the form a virus that impacts the feedstocks — switchgrass in particular.

The next generation of bioenergy technology aims to replace current feedstocks such as corn, sorghum, sugarcane, rapeseed, soy, and oil palm with dedicated cellulosic crops (Kszos et al. 2000; Heaton et al. 2008b), such as woody tree species and the grasses switchgrass (Panacum vergatum) and miscanthus (Miscanthus x giganteus)(Lewandowski et al. 2000).

Though the current substitution rate is negligible, a rapid expansion is possible with the use of wood residues (urban wood, pallets, and secondary manufacturing products) and dedicated feedstock supply systems (DFSS) such as willow, poplar, and switchgrass.