ethanol from switchgrass Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:11:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Genetically Modified Switchgrass Offers Bright Perspective on Bioethanol https://www.greenoptimistic.com/modified-switchgrass-ethanol-20110215/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/modified-switchgrass-ethanol-20110215/#respond Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:11:43 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=17140 Ethanol is already being used to supplement gasoline, as you may already know. Still, researchers are trying to find methods to produce bio-ethanol from plant sources that are both less costly to grow and to process, while at the same time keeping the efficiency into account. Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers found how newly-modified prairie grass may be the perfect candidate.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/modified-switchgrass-ethanol-20110215/feed/ 0 17140 ORNL Researchers Find Way to Make Ethanol From Switchgrass Cheaper by Using Neutron Scattering https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ornl-ethanol-neutron-scattering-20100916/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ornl-ethanol-neutron-scattering-20100916/#respond Thu, 16 Sep 2010 10:35:36 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=10418 A research aimed to lower the cost of biomass conversion process has been conducted by the researchers from the DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Georgia Tech. The study used small-angle neutron scattering to test the structural impact of an acid pretreatment of lignocellulose from switchgrass.

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