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Chemistry World June 14, 2007 Simon Hadlington |
Sweet Substitute for Petroleum Products Chemists have developed a new way to turn the sugars glucose and fructose into a potentially useful chemical feedstock. The work reflects a global effort to identify ways of converting plant-derived molecules into replacements for petrochemical feedstocks.  |
Reactive Reports Issue 57 David Bradley |
Sweet Solution to Energy Problem A new process for converting sugar into diesel fuel and feedstock chemicals for the manufacture of plastics, drugs, and other products, could help industry circumvent the problem of rising oil and natural gas prices.  |
Chemistry World September 18, 2008 Simon Hadlington |
Bio-petroleum made from sugars James Dumesic's team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison set out to convert simple sugars into hydrocarbons that could be blended to make vehicle fuels that are identical to the ones we use today.  |
Technology Research News June 15, 2005 Kimberly Patch |
Process Ups Biodiesel Efficiency Researchers have shown that it is possible to convert biomass materials like corn into fuel that could be used in diesel engines in a way that automatically separates the fuel from water.  |
Chemistry World February 11, 2009 Victoria Gill |
Making Biofuels the Chemical Way US-based researchers have developed the first one-step synthesis of a biofuel precursor from untreated agricultural waste.  |
Scientific American September 2007 Philip Yam |
Updates: Whatever happened to...? Cyberwarfare... Surviving super volcanoes... Better biofuel... House cat origin...  |
Chemistry World October 23, 2012 Amy Middleton-Gear |
Plant power! To combat our reliance on fossil fuels, US scientists have discovered a new route for turning the carbohydrate cellulose -- the most abundant organic molecule on Earth -- into 5-(hydroxymethyl)furfural, a promising precursor molecule to alternative fuels.  |
Geotimes August 2007 Ari Hartmann |
Energy & Resources Researchers are putting a new useful spin on a mean old trick by suggesting that renewable, clean-burning sugar derivatives might someday help replace liquid fossil fuels such as gasoline.  |
Technology Research News February 25, 2004 Kimberly Patch |
Ethanol yields hydrogen Researchers have devised a way to extract hydrogen directly from ethanol, which would make for a renewable energy cycle. Ethanol is produced by converting biomass like cornstarch to sugar, then fermenting it.  |
Chemistry World November 2, 2006 Richard Van Noorden |
How Best to Use Biomass? Researchers have developed an efficient way of turning renewable resources like vegetable oils -- and potentially biomass - into hydrogen-rich gas. The gas could be converted to synthetic fuels and industrial chemicals, or used in fuel cells.  |
Chemistry World June 28, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
To Chew or to Burn? A positive buzz of research and bold investment is surrounding second generation biofuels.  |
Chemistry World August 2006 Andrew Scott |
Down on the Plastics Farm Soaring oil prices could see biomass become competitive as a source for chemicals traditionally derived from petroleum.  |
Wired September 24, 2007 Evan Ratliff |
The Formula: From Grass to Gas The process behind converting raw plants to ethanol.  |
IEEE Spectrum July 2008 |
Venture Capital Eyes Biomass Gasification to Make Ethanol Samir Kaul, the Khosla Ventures general partner responsible for the firm's renewable portfolio, talks about the emerging technology of gasifying biomass into ethanol.  |
Food Processing July 2007 Mark Anthony |
HFCS (Highly fattening or crappy science?) Empty calories, yes, but demon, no; the truth and friction behind high-fructose corn syrup.  |