Mahdi Abu-Omar, Purdue's R.B. Wetherill Professor of Chemistry, holds a small vial containing results of a new catalytic process that can convert the lignin in wood into high-value chemical products ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Researchers have demonstrated a new process to convert all biomass into liquid fuel, and the method could make possible mobile processing plants. The researchers at Purdue ...

For a world hooked on fossil carbons, the vials of amber syrup in Jim Dumesic's lab are full of sweet potential. The development of this new scheme was funded by the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research ...

Humic acid (HA) is a macromolecular organic substance that is widely used in agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, chemical industry, building materials, medicine, environmental protection, and a ...

Taking a chemical approach, researchers have developed a two-step method to convert the cellulose in raw biomass into a promising biofuel. The process is unprecedented in its use of untreated, ...

Enzymatic hydrolysis and yeast fermentation raised alfalfa biomass to roughly 40 percent crude protein in a lab-scale ...

However, the deconstruction of biomass is one of the most complex processes in bioenergy technologies. Although researchers had already uncovered information about how woody plants and waste biomass ...

When it is completed, later this summer, the UK’s Drax Power Station biomass facility will become the largest dedicated cofiring project of its kind in the world. As U.S. coal-fired generators come ...

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A University of Wisconsin–Madison research team has developed a promising new chemical method to liberate the sugar molecules trapped inside inedible plant biomass, a key step in the creation of ...