The danger of the ever-increasing levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in Earth's atmosphere has become one of the most pressing issues of our age. As such, much research has been conducted to find ways not ...

Grayling Willer from Akron, Iowa has questions about proposed CO2 pipelines from ethanol plants: “There have been CO2 pipeline projects proposed to go through our area, carrying CO2 from ethanol ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A Colorado ethanol producer is set to employ a landmark technology that could help resolve the food vs. fuel controversy swirling around corn-based ethanol.

The process that Atalla and colleagues have developed makes the cellulose break down more easily and could make cellulosic ethanol more competitive to corn ethanol and a viable energy source. It also ...

Using a wet ethanol production method that begins by soaking corn kernels rather than grinding them, results in more gallons of ethanol and more usable co-products, giving ethanol producers a bigger ...

Researchers from institutions worldwide have been working to develop a method that will allow them to convert pollution in the form of carbon dioxide and hydrogen into ethanol. Ethanol is a fuel that ...

Dump it today, drive with it tomorrow. That’s the promise of the nation’s first waste-to-ethanol plant, proposed for Inver Grove Heights. The $200 million biofuels plant would process Dakota County’s ...

Fermenting corn starch to generate ethanol for fuel is a complex biochemical process that requires the monitoring of numerous parameters to ensure optimal production. Measuring these parameters using ...

The process of making ethanol from cellulosic sources such as wood chips and paper pulp is somewhat like following a complicated French recipe: it takes many costly ingredients and multiple pots, each ...

ROCHELLE - It takes about two days of crushing, mixing, cooling and heating to get the right mixture of corn and water to make ethanol. In about 48 to 55 hours at the Illinois River Energy LLC ethanol ...