A new technique to monitor contamination in bioethanol production could increase revenue by more than $1.6 billion USD and reduce CO 2 emissions by 2 million tons. For the first time ever, researchers ...

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It is possible to produce bioethanol from agricultural and industrial waste in existing plants in a socioeconomically sustainable way, according to new research from Sweden. It is possible to produce ...

In 1998, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Fuels Development (OFD) requested that the National Research Council (NRC) evaluate the OFD's research and development (R&D) strategy and ...

Bioethanol, a renewable alternative to fossil fuels, is principally produced by fermenting sugars derived from biomass feedstocks. Conventional routes employ sugar‐rich crops such as sugarcane or ...

A new low-temperature multi-phase process for upgrading lignin bio-oil to hydrocarbons could help expand use of the lignin, which is now largely a waste product left over from the productions of ...

Sweden’s University of Borås doctoral student Ramkumar Nair has shown it is possible to produce bioethanol from agricultural and industrial waste in existing plants in a socioeconomically sustainable ...

Hydrogen could be made using agricultural waste under a new production process that uses less energy than existing methods and emits no greenhouse gases. The novel process turns bioethanol into clean ...

Current R&D on processing technologies is focused on improving the conversion of low-value biomass feedstocks to ethanol. According to the Bioethanol Strategic Roadmap, NREL's primary guide for the ...

Thermophilic fermentation processes harness heat-tolerant microorganisms to convert lignocellulosic and sugar-based biomass into ethanol at elevated temperatures (45–70 °C). Operating at such ...