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DOE awards $97M to 33 bioenergy research and development projects

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These projects will improve the performance and lower the cost and risk of technologies that can be used to produce biofuels, biopower, and bioproducts from biomass and waste resources. University of Alabama. University of North Dakota. Scale-up and Qualification of Net-Zero Sustainable Aviation Fuels from Wet Waste.

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Oregon researchers produce skutterudites for use as thermoelectric materials using microwave energy

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Chemists at Oregon State University (OSU) have discovered that simple microwave energy can be used to make a very promising group of compounds called skutterudites used in thermoelectric materials for waste heat recovery. Their findings are published in Materials Research Bulletin. This is really quite fascinating.

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ARPA-E announces $11M for innovations in energy-water processing and agricultural sensing technologies; fourth, fifth OPEN+ cohorts

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Columbia University, Expanding the Boundaries of Autotrophic Nitrogen Removal for Energy-Efficient Clean Water Production – $1,620,136. Oregon State University, Freshwater Recovery System for Hydraulic Fracturing (FRESH-Frac) Using a Thermally-Actuated Nozzle-Demister – $2,972,000. Energy-Water Technologies cohort.

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Study shows uncovers how beetle gut microbes serve as reactor for fuel production

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This wood passes through the beetle’s complex digestive tract and is finally excreted as its waste product, politely termed frass. Passalid colonies may have as many as seven adults that can consume over four times their weight in wood per day. —Jennifer Pett-Ridge.

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2016 Billion Ton Report shows US could sustainably produce at least 1B tons biomass by 2040 for bioeconomy

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New to the 2016 report is novel assessments of potential biomass supplies from algae, from new energy crops (miscanthus, energy cane, eucalyptus), and from municipal solid waste. These renewable resources include agricultural, forestry, and algal biomass, as well as waste. and Allegheny Science and Technology).

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DOE to award $118M to 17 projects to accelerate domestic biofuel production

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This project will demonstrate the conversion of gaseous carbon wood wastes (terpenes) to renewable Terpenes SAF blending components. University of California Riverside, “Scale-up Demonstration of Hybrid Catalytic Biorefining of Biomass to Sustainable Aviation and Marine Fuels”, $2,000,000. MicroBio Engineering Inc.,

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Univ of Washington team working to make poplar coppice viable cheap, high-volume biofuel feedstock

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A University of Washington team is trying to make poplar an economically viable biofuel feedstock by testing the production of younger poplar trees that could be harvested more frequently—after only two or three years—instead of the usual 10- to 20-year cycle. Chang Dou/University of Washington. Click to enlarge.