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Biofuels Blend Right In

By Guest PostFebruary 3, 2013Environmentadvanced biofuels industry, atmosphere warming carbon, balance, benchmark, berkeley lab, biofuel feedstocks, biofuels, blake simmons, cellulosic biomass, complex polysaccharides, corn stover, cost competitive, diesel, energy characteristics, energy densification, eucalyptus, feedstock varieties, fermentable sugars, flavor characteristics, fossil fuels, gasoline, global temperatures, grape varietals, green chemistry, ionic liquid, jbei, jet fuel, jian shi, joint bioenergy institute, lignin, lignocellulosic biomass, lignocellulosic biorefineries, lodgepole pine, methylimidazolium acetate, microbial fermentation, mixture, neal yancey, pellets, pre treatment, recalcitrant material, seema singh, substitute, switchgrass, Technology, transportation fuel, united states, vicki thompson, vitalie stavila, volatile organic solvents, wine, winemakers

Researchers Show Ionic Liquids Effective for Pre-Treating Mixed Blends of Biofuel Feedstocks

Winemakers have long known that blending different grape varietals can favorably balance the flavor characteristics of the wine they produce. In the future, makers of advanced biofuels might use a similar strategy, blending different feedstock varieties to balance the energy characteristics of the transportation fuel they produce.

A collaborative study by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), a bioenergy research center led by Berkeley Lab, and the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has shown that an ionic liquid proven to be effective for pre-treating individual biofuel feedstocks is also effective at pre-treating multiple different feedstocks that have been mixed and densified into a blend. (more…)

2001-02 Drought Helped to Shift Rocky Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreak into Epidemic

A new University of Colorado Boulder study shows for the first time that episodes of reduced precipitation in the southern Rocky Mountains, especially during the 2001-02 drought, greatly accelerated development of the mountain pine beetle epidemic.

The study, the first ever to chart the evolution of the current pine beetle epidemic in the southern Rocky Mountains, compared patterns of beetle outbreak in the two primary host species, the ponderosa pine and lodgepole pine, said CU-Boulder doctoral student Teresa Chapman. The current mountain pine beetle outbreak in the southern Rockies — which range from southern Wyoming through Colorado and into northern New Mexico –is estimated to have impacted nearly 3,000 square miles of forests, said Chapman, lead study author. (more…)

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Biofuels Blend Right In

2001-02 Drought Helped to Shift Rocky Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreak into Epidemic