Energy
- Cork- Sleeper Biofuel Optimization Or Even Crazier Than Corn?
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Brookhaven National Laboratory scientists say your wine bottle may hold a secret to a new biofuel. Inside cork is an enzyme responsible for the formation of suberin, the woody, waxy, cell-wall substance found in cork. It helps keep wine inside your bot ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 19 2009 - 5:27pm
- Biomass utilization for food, fuels and chemicals.
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Biomass consumption 5.1. Biofuels Rural and urban biofuel consumption were estimated using respective per capita consumption at a district level, and results aggregated at the state and national level. Total biofuel (all fuels) consumption was 538MTyr_1 fo ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Oct 20 2009 - 9:42pm
- Biomass burning in India and pollution
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A spatially resolved biomass burning data set, and related emissions of SO2 and aerosol chemical constituents was constructed for India, for 1996–1997 and extrapolated to the INDOEX period (1998–1999). Sources included biofuels (wood, crop waste and dungca ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Oct 20 2009 - 9:49pm
- Biofuel use in the transport sector
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Biofuel use in the transport sector Because transport fuels are almost exclusively petroleum derived, the rapid real price increases for oil in the 1970s left the transport sector in most oil-importing countries extremely vulnerable. As a result, many coun ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Oct 22 2009 - 7:05am
- Industrial biofuel use
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Key economic characteristics that distinguish industrial biofuel from fossil fuel conversion systems are their general cost structures, scale economies, degree and type of subsidies, foreign exchange impacts, reliance on byproduct credits, and environment ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Oct 22 2009 - 7:10am
- BIOFUELS AS SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES
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Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Oct 22 2009 - 7:25am
- BIOFUELS AS SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES
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Vegetable oil can be obtained from more than 300 different plant species. Oil is contained mainly in fruits and seeds, yet still other origins exist. The highest oil yields can be obtained from tree crops, such as palms, coconuts, and olives, but there are ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Oct 22 2009 - 7:27am
- Traditional biofuel use has long been with us, the future challenge is to focus on environmentally sound, and economically justifiable, advanced biofuel systems
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In 2002, fossil fuels supplied 86 percent of the energy consumed in the United States. We also imported over half of the petroleum we used and we project that our dependency will continue to grow. Since the U.S. economy is so closely tied with petroleum pr ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Oct 23 2009 - 1:12am
- Gasification: thermochemical upgrading of biomass
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Gasification: INTRODUCTION ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Oct 23 2009 - 1:18am
- Growth and productivity of Jatropha curcas under semi arid conditions
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Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Oct 23 2009 - 8:36pm
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