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An ethanol plant manager in Minnesota once remarked quite seriously that to make as much cellulosic ethanol as the corn ethanol he now distills, he'd need to have a semi-truckload of cellulosic ...

WASHINGTON, September 6, 2017 - A growing list of companies are signing on to new technology designed to turn waste into fuel aiming to produce cellulosic ethanol from corn kernel fiber, according to ...

Once everything useful has been teased out of the biomass, water gets squeezed out of what remains in this accordion-like filter press. The solids fall to a conveyor below, nudged by workers like Drew ...

Nonfood, plant-based biofuels have potential as a green alternative to fossil fuels, but the enzymes required for production are too inefficient and costly to produce. However, new research published ...

The challenge for Deinove, a Parisian biotech firm, is that the Deinococcus bacterium, with which it is developing biobased chemicals, is extraordinarily difficult to work with. And time is not on the ...

SPIRITWOOD, N.D.-New Energy Blue LLC is about five months away from finishing engineering and permitting on a $150 million plant project that would turn wheat and corn field residue into ethanol for ...

As cellulosic ethanol becomes more and more a front-runner to help reduce the country's "addiction to oil," the high cost of producing it still stands as one of the major hurdles. But now, researchers ...

GALVA, Iowa | Quad County Corn Processors formally broke ground Monday on an $8.5 million expansion that will allow the Northwest Iowa biorefinery to start turning corn kernel fibers into cellulosic ...

Michael Zavrel, a chemical engineer who heads development and biomanufacturing for Clariant’s biotech arm, remembers 2008. He was in the final year of his Ph.D. in biochemical engineering and had ...