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University of Wisconsin Team Develops High-Yielding Chemical Hydrolysis Process to Release Sugars from Biomass for Cellulosic Fuels and Chemicals

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A University of Wisconsin-Madison research team has developed a chemical process for the hydrolysis of biomass into sugars for subsequent processing into fuels and chemicals that delivers sugar yields approaching those of enzymatic hydrolysis. Furthermore, the hydrolysate products are readily converted into ethanol by microorganisms.

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UW-Madison Hybrid Vehicle Team working with Engine Research Center to apply dual-fuel RCCI engines in series and parallel hybrids

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The University of Wisconsin-Madison Hybrid Vehicle Team will work with the UW-Madison Engine Research Center to test implementations of Reactivity Controlled Compression Ignition (RCCI) engines being developed by UW mechanical engineering professor Rolf Reitz and his colleagues. —Glenn Bower. —Glenn Bower.

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Researchers engineer poplar trees for easier degradation of lignin to ease production of biofuels

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Researchers from Michigan State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison and their colleagues report successfully engineering poplar trees to produce lignin that degrades more easily, thereby lowering the effort and cost to convert wood to biofuel. The technology is available for licensing. Source: GLBRC.

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DOE awards nearly $55M to advance fuel efficient vehicle technologies in support of EV Everywhere and SuperTruck

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Clemson University. The Curators of The University of Missouri. Electric Drive Vehicular Battery Modeling for Commercially Available Software (Area of Interest 6). This project will develop commercially available software that improves the computational processing time of battery pack performance modeling by a factor of 100.

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USDA and DOE select 13 biofuels projects for more than $41M in awards

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Through the joint Biomass Research and Development Initiative (BRDI) , USDA and the DOE are working to develop economically and environmentally sustainable sources of renewable biomass and increase the availability of renewable fuels and biobased products. University of Wisconsin ($7 million). University of Hawaii ($6 million).

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New genome sequences target next generation of yeasts with improved biotech uses

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While these capabilities can be used for a wide range of biotechnological applications, including biofuel production, so far industry has only harnessed a fraction of the diversity available among yeast species. —senior author Tom Jeffries, Professor Emeritus at University of Wisconsin, Madison. The well-known yeast S.

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US Maritime Administration to fund projects on reducing emissions from marine vessels, study on LNG bunkering

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Emissions data must be made available to MARAD and can be used publicly. MARAD recently completed a study—reported in the February 2013 “ Status of the US-Flag Great Lakes Water Transportation Industry ”—that focused on the feasibility of using natural gas on the Great Lakes as well as converting existing steamships. (In

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