DOE offers $4.4 million for university biofuel projects
Filed under: Biodiesel, Ethanol, Legislation and Policy, USA
It’s not all li-ion battery tech that the federal government is givng support to these days; biofuels are getting some tax dollars as well. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced that six biofuel projects at universities around the U.S. will be getting up to $4.4 million in funding. The good news is that the money is for work in non-food cellulosic ethanol research. Full details are available after the jump, but here are some snippets:
- University of Toledo: For “development of cost-effective biocatalysts capable of increasing product yield in the biological conversion of lignocellulosic biomass.”
- Steven′s Institute of Technology: “To evaluate and demonstrate a novel microchannel reactor to reform pyrolysis oil to synthesis gas (syngas).”
- Montana State University: “To evaluate the oil content of algae cultures available to the universities and identify populations that naturally have higher rates of oil production.”
- University of Georgia: “To develop novel approaches to supply nutrients to oil-producing algal systems resulting in cost-effective algae-biofuel production systems.
- University of Maine: “To determine the optimal yield and productivity of high potential bacteria at moderate to high temperatures.
- Georgia Tech Research Corporation: “To evaluate and model the reaction kinetics in two experimental gasifiers using forest residues under different processing conditions.”
[Source: DOE]
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Original post by Sebastian Blanco