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Ethanol Fuel - Inventions, Research, Innovations,
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- Ethanol Research Breakthrough: Wood Feedstock - Corn is
the usual feedstock for producing ethanol in the U.S, but wood could
open up the growing market to states outside of the Midwest. Researchers
at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) say they
have invented a method for removing energy-rich sugars from wood, a
process that could help develop agricultural feedstocks for ethanol
production, and increase profits for New York's and other states' pulp
and paper industries. - Energy
Bulletin, Feb 2005
- 40-year Old Discovery May Hold Key to Cellulosic Ethanol
Production - About 40 years ago, Iowa State Chemistry professor John Verkade
based his doctoral dissertation on a chemical compound, and only
realized a few years ago that it may very well hold the key to breaking
down the cellulose that forms the structure of a plant's cell walls.
Read more from the Nov 2006 article
on Auto Blog Green
- Bioengineered Yeast Tolerates Higher Ethanol For Biomass
Energy Use - Some MIT researchers have developed a yeast strain that can
continue to produce ethanol up to a much higher concentration of
ethanol. The work by MIT chemical-engineering professor Gregory
Stephanopoulos and his colleagues focuses on the second part of this
process: fermenting sugars to make ethanol. The yeast strain they made
can tolerate ethanol concentrations as high as 18 percent--almost double
the concentration that regular yeast can handle without quickly dying.
In addition, the new strain makes about 20 percent more ethanol by
processing more of the glucose, and it speeds up fermentation by 70
percent - A December 2006 article from
Future Pundit
- Creating Ethanol from Trash - Researchers find a way to
make liquid fuels from waste cheaply and without the pollution produced
by earlier methods. By Kevin Bullis @ Technology Review,
Jan 2007 - A new system for converting trash into ethanol and
methanol could help reduce the amount of waste piling up in landfills
while displacing a large fraction of the fossil fuels used to power
vehicles in the United States. The technology, developed originally by
researchers at MIT and at Batelle Pacific Northwest National Labs
(PNNL), in Richland, WA, doesn't incinerate refuse, so it doesn't
produce the pollutants that have historically plagued efforts to convert
waste into energy. Instead, the technology vaporizes organic materials
to produce hydrogen and carbon monoxide, a mixture called synthesis gas,
or syngas, that can be used to synthesize a wide variety of fuels and
chemicals. Read more from the Technology Review article
- New Technology Converts Municipal Waste into Ethanol - A
new conversion technology takes organic waste items and turns them into
usable fuel. This process to create ethanol can be used not only for
municipal waste, but also agricultural biomass waste. The technology
vaporizes organic material, releasing a mixture of hydrogen and carbon
monoxide. These gases are synthesised and converted to ethanol and
methanol. The originators of this technology are the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and Batelle Pacific Northwest National Labs.
Read more from this Jan 2007 article in News Target
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- New Technology Uses Cellulosic Biomass to Produce
Ethanol - Sep 2006 - RITE and Honda are pursuing methods for mass
production. Ethanol production from soft-biomass -- including inedible
leaves and plant stalks such as rice straw -- has entered into the mass
production phase of research at the Research Institute of Innovative
Technology for the Earth (RITE) and Honda R&D Co., a subsidiary of
Honda Motor responsible for research and development. The new technology
uses RITE strain, a microorganism developed by RITE that converts sugar
into alcohol. See the full article from this Renewable
Energy Access report
- Mesquite to Ethanol Machine - Mesquite is a deciduous
tree commonly found in Northern Mexico and the United States. A new
technology promises to convert mesquite into ethanol fuel, which can
then be used to power farm equipment and vehicles. See the report from Alternative
Energy News
- Bugs Providing Breakthrough Technology for Cellulosic
Ethanol Production - Enzymes Produced in Microbes and Termite Guts
Accelerate the Production of Biofuels - See more about the Diversa
Process from
here (PDF)
- Ethanol Fuel Cell Technology - Ethanol is the perfect
fuel for Fuel Cells - The ideal fuel cell would use ethanol instead of
natural gas. Over the past several years, Arthur D. Little, with support
from the Illinois Corn Marketing Board and other organizations, has
developed a fuel processor that allows fuel cell powerplants to operate
on ethanol. Fuel cell applications are particularly desirable for
ethanol, says this article. Read more here.
- Biorefinery Breakthrough - No one has ever brewed
biofuel from straw on a commercial scale. With Shell's backing, Iogen is
likely to be the first - By Stuart Brown, CNN / Fortune, February, 2006
- Iogen has started a big science project aimed at learning how to make
alcohol on a commercial scale from nonfood biomass like straw. Some of
the key steps used are enzymatic hydrolysis, enzyme conversion of the
cellulose part of the straw into sugars - More from this
CNN / Fortune report
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