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 ...

New research suggests sub-Neptune exoplanets may hide significant water layers. These hidden layers could make atmospheric ...

Biomass gasification converts organic feedstocks into a combustible gas mixture through thermochemical reactions under controlled temperature and atmosphere. Optimisation of this process involves ...

(Phys.org)—Scientists made a major step forward recently towards transforming biomass-derived molecules into fuels. The team led by Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers elucidated the chemical ...

Biomass pyrolysis modelling and process optimization have become central to the development of renewable carbon value chains, offering routes to bio-oils, syngas and biochar with minimal environmental ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...