Turning Waste Material into Ethanol

(PhysOrg.com) -- Say the word “biofuels” and most people think of grain ethanol and biodiesel. But there`s another, older technology called gasification that`s getting a new look from researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy`s Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University. By combining gasification with high-tech nanoscale porous catalysts, they hope to create ethanol from a wide range of biomass, including distiller`s grain left over from ethanol production, corn stover from the field, grass, wood pulp, animal waste, and garbage.

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