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How to Make it Easier to Turn Plant Waste into Biofuels

January 14, 2020 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Agriculture, Ammonia, bioenergy crops, Biofuels, Biomass, Cellulose, CORN, Energy, Environment, Enzymes, Ethanol, Farming, Farms, Fibers, Fossil Fuels, Glucose, Green Energy, heat, industrial processes, Leaves, microbes, New Jersey, NJ, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, plants, Renewable Energy, Rutgers, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Sugar

Researchers have developed a new process that could make it much cheaper to produce biofuels such as ethanol from plant waste and reduce reliance on fossil fuels. Their approach, featuring an ammonia-salt based solvent that rapidly turns plant fibers into sugars needed to make ethanol, works well at close to room temperature, unlike conventional processes, according to a Rutgers-led study in the journal Green Chemistry.