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Green Car Congress
JANUARY 8, 2021
Maize and other annual crops are easier to manage with traditional farming, but they are tougher on the environment. The researchers conducted ecosystem-scale comparisons of carbon, nitrogen, water, and energy fluxes of Sorghum bicolor with maize and Miscanthus x. Energy sorghum falls somewhere in between.
Cars That Think
JUNE 28, 2023
That was the case for Melba Crawford , who as a teenager couldn’t wait to leave her family’s farm in Illinois to pursue an engineering career. space program; she initially aimed for a career in the aerospace industry. She realized that aerospace was a boom-and-bust industry, she says. She then pursued a Ph.D.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 10, 2015
million in three new Engineering Research Centers (ERCs) to create novel technology platforms and transform industries. POETS will be led by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in partnership with Howard University, Stanford University and the University of Arkansas. The two other new ERCs are: Off-grid drinking water.
Baua Electric
MAY 10, 2024
The increase in global energy demands, diminution of fossil fuels , and its harmful effects on the environment have attracted the use of lignocellulosic biomass as an alternative sustainable source for chemicals, materials, and liquid fuels. Schematic of biomass to bio-oil conversion process. Dr. Gogoi is also Asst.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 2, 2011
EIA projects its wider use could result in EOR providing 33% of total domestic onshore production by 2035, while helping store millions of tons of CO 2 emissions from power plants and industrial sources. These projects include: GE Global Research (Niskayuna, NY) - NORM Mitigation and Clean Water Recovery from Marcellus Frac Water.
Green Car Congress
JULY 5, 2011
Many industrial processes employ natural enzymes, some of them isolated from organisms that live in extreme environments, such as hot springs. However, many of these enzymes are not optimized for industrial processes. Hence the need to look in extreme environments for better enzymes. Graham, Melinda E. Clark, Dana C.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 10, 2011
Using detailed land analysis, University of Illinois researchers have found that biofuel crops cultivated on available land could produce between 26-55% of the world’s current fuel consumption without affecting the use of land with regular productivity for conventional crops and without affecting the current pasture land. Click to enlarge.
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