An ethanol plant manager in Minnesota once remarked quite seriously that to make as much cellulosic ethanol as the corn ethanol he now distills, he'd need to have a semi-truckload of cellulosic ...

JAMESTOWN, N.D. - The day after announcing plans to build a cellulosic ethanol plant in the Spiritwood Energy Park Association industrial park, the New Energy Spirit Biomass Refinery submitted a ...

Researchers experimented with different combinations of zwitterionic molecules to produce a solvent that is liquid below 100°C and very effective at breaking down cellulose. This research may lead to ...

Cellulose - an integral component of plant cell walls - is an important source of food, paper, textiles and biofuels, but how its creation is regulated within plant cells has remained unclear. Now, a ...

Coskata’s newly-opened semi-commercial flex ethanol facility in Madison, Pennsylvania is as small as it can possibly be. Co-located at a Westinghouse facility that also in some fashion uses nuclear ...

SPIRITWOOD, N.D. -- New Energy Blue LLC is about five months away from finishing engineering and permitting on a $150 million plant project that would turn wheat and corn field residue into ethanol ...

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Researchers have successfully uncovered the molecular mechanisms by which bacterial cellulose patches stimulate the regeneration of plant wounds. The regeneration process requires the activation of ...