Commercial-size Plant to Make Ethanol from Cellulose

The Agriculture Department is close to issuing its first loan guarantee for a commercial-size plant to make ethanol from cellulose. The 2008 farm law created a $320 million dollar loan guarantee program for biorefineries that would produce advanced fuels such as ethanol from cellulose, found in grass and wood. Read posted by Geetha @ 10:03 PM 0 Comments

A New Process to Cut Cost of Cellulosic Ethanol

Researchers at Michigan State University have patented a process for pretreating corn crop waste that they say will cut the cost of making cellulosic ethanol and other biofuels. Read

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Cellulosic Ethanol Benefits

Cellulosic ethanol offers many benefits. For one thing, it has a higher net energy yield than corn-based ethanol. Furthermore, because it can be produced with crops other than corn, it's not as vulnerable to the price of that commodity (which has doubled in the past few years). As an additional benefit, many of the crops used in producing cellulosic ethanol are perennial crops; they that don't need to be replanted every year, and they tend to use fewer fertilizers and pesticides than corn. Read

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What is Cellulosomes?

Cellulosomes are large extracellular enzyme complexs that are produced by anaerobic bacteria and can efficiently break down plant cell wall polysaccharides, such as cellulose, hemicellulose and pectin into sugars. Read

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Development of Next-Generation Cellulosic Ethanol

Next-generation cellulosic ethanol uses advanced enzyme science to reduce the cost of ethanol production and enable the use of a wide variety of biomass. Unlike traditional ethanol manufactured using natural gas or coal, cellulosic ethanol from biomass can be broken
down into fermentable sugars using acid or enzymatic hydrolysis. Read

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More Cellulosic Ethanol from Corn, and Let Cows Eat Grass

Here's an interesting post on cellulosic ethanol. Admittedly, it is slightly old (Jul 2007), but it is an interesting post.

The post essentially argues that instead of trying to get cellulosic ethanol from switchgrass, it might be better to make the cattle eat these grasses instead of the corn they are fed today while the corn stover is used to make cellulosic ethanol.

A detailed post, and it will be interesting to check out if what is being said in that blog is happening today posted by Ecacofonix @ 9:48 PM 0 Comments