Stories indexed under: Biofuels
Total: 5
- New ‘green’ method to help upgrade biomass waste into valuable chemicals April 23, 2013 University of Wisconsin-Madison chemists have identified an approach to use oxygen gas to convert lignin, a byproduct of biofuel production, into a form that could allow it to replace fossil fuels as a source of chemical feedstocks.
- New biorenewables technology moves closer to marketplace Oct. 23, 2012 A licensing agreement for a novel renewable chemical and biofuel production method between Hyrax Energy and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation promises to accelerate commercial development of the technology and lead to high-quality U.S. jobs.
- Energy from Wisconsin cow manure could replace a coal plant Oct. 9, 2012 According to a recent Wisconsin Bioenergy Initiative (WBI) study, Wisconsin can be a national leader in bioenergy production using waste from the state's prosperous agriculture and food processing sectors.
- Researchers develop efficient, scalable process for making renewable liquid fuels Oct. 3, 2012 Using simple technology developed primarily for producing electricity from hydrogen, a team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Massachusetts-Amherst and Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology of South Korea has developed what could be a commercially viable, continuous process for converting biomass and electricity into renewable liquid transportation fuels.
- Award supports study of internal-combustion diagnostic tool Jan. 10, 2012 For the past several decades, engineers have been investigating low-temperature combustion as a means of creating engines with diesel-like efficiency and no pollutant emissions. A UW-Madison mechanical engineering assistant professor has received a grant to study the process.