News articles tagged with 'biofuel'
Key plant traits yield more sugar for biofuels
— 30 Mar 2011 16:28 | EnvironmentNew clues about plant structure are helping researchers from the Department of Energy's BioEnergy Science Centre narrow down a large collection of poplar tree candidates and identify…
Blocking carbon dioxide fixation in bacteria increases biofuel production
— 30 Mar 2011 16:19 | EnvironmentReducing the ability of certain bacteria to fix carbon dioxide can greatly increase their production of hydrogen gas that can be used as a biofuel. Researchers from the University of…
Key plant traits yield more sugar for biofuels
— 29 Mar 2011 15:34 | EnvironmentNew clues about plant structure are helping researchers from the Department of Energy's BioEnergy Science Centre narrow down a large collection of poplar tree candidates and identify…
Engineers demonstrate use of proteins as raw material for biofuels, biorefining
— 8 Mar 2011 14:59 | TechnologyTwo types of raw materials are currently used for biorefining and biofuel production: carbohydrates and lipids. Biofuels like ethanol are derived from carbohydrate raw materials such…
BESC scores a first with isobutanol directly from cellulose
— 8 Mar 2011 13:59 | ChemistryIn the quest for inexpensive biofuels, cellulose proved no match for a bioprocessing strategy and genetically engineered microbe developed by researchers at the Department of Energy's…
New study to look at economics, groundwater use of bioenergy feedstocks
— 4 Mar 2011 13:23 | EnvironmentBiofuel feedstock production in the Texas High Plains could significantly change the crop mix, which could affect regional income and groundwater consumption, according to Texas AgriLife…
Turning bacteria into butanol biofuel factories
— 3 Mar 2011 12:53 | EnvironmentUniversity of California, Berkeley, chemists have engineered bacteria to churn out a gasoline-like biofuel at about 10 times the rate of competing microbes, a breakthrough that could…
Overfertilising corn undermines ethanol
— 26 Feb 2011 18:03 | EnvironmentRice University scientists and their colleagues have found that when growing corn crops for ethanol, more means less…
Enzyme cocktail could eliminate a step in biofuel process
— 26 Feb 2011 17:12 | ChemistryConversion of biomass to fuel requires several steps: chemical pretreatment to break up the biomass - often dilute (sulphuric) acid, detoxification to remove the toxic chemicals required…
A billion tons of biomass a viable goal, but at high price, new research shows
— 17 Feb 2011 18:18 | EnvironmentA new study from the University of Illinois concludes that very high biomass prices would be needed in order to meet the ambitious goal of replacing 30 percent of petroleum consumption…