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NC State Researchers Developing Ozonolysis Pretreatment for Energy Grass Feedstocks

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Researchers at North Carolina State University are developing an ozone-based pre-treatment technique (ozonolysis) to release sugars from the energy grass miscanthus for production into renewable fuels or chemicals with minimal generation of chemical waste streams and degradation of the carbohydrate components. GarcĂ­a-Cubero et al.

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WHO links 7 million premature deaths annually to air pollution; 12.5% of total global deaths

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billion people living in homes using wood, coal or dung as their primary cooking fuel, as well as evidence about air pollution’s role in the development of cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, and cancers. The major components of PM are sulfate, nitrates, ammonia, sodium chloride, black carbon, mineral dust and water.

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