Nanoscale catalysts could tap syngas as cheap source of ethanol
Thursday, August 14, 2008 - 13:56
in Physics & Chemistry
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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