Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2016

In addition, she said the Iowa State team has already pulled in multiple partners willing to help commercialize distributed biorefineries. Pyrolysis as traditionally practiced involves quickly heating biomass without oxygen to produce a biochar for fertilizer and a liquid bio-oil for energy.

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JANUARY 29, 2010

The objective of the consortium, which includes luxury car maker Jaguar Land Rover and leading electrical machine company SR Drives ( earlier post ), is to produce the first commercially viable gas turbine generator designed specifically for automotive applications. Oil-less carbon-air bearing system. One moving part.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2013

A multinational team of scientists has identified a single gene, called Shell , that regulates yield of the oil palm tree. The Shell gene is responsible for the oil palm’s three known shell forms: dura (thick); pisifera (shell-less); and tenera (thin), a hybrid of dura and pisifera palms. Louis-based Orion Genomics.

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