(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are proposing to borrow a process used in breweries and wastewater treatment facilities to make corn ethanol more energy efficient.

As demand grows for efficient, reliable, and adaptable extraction technologies across the pharmaceutical, food, natural ingredients, and chemical processing industries, equipment manufacturers are ...

In a study published in Energy & Environmental Science, researchers from the Interface Science Department at the Fritz Haber Institute have introduced a novel method for converting the greenhouse gas ...

The danger of the ever-increasing levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in Earth's atmosphere has become one of the most pressing issues of our age. As such, much research has been conducted to find ways not ...

Sweden’s University of Borås doctoral student Ramkumar Nair has shown it is possible to produce bioethanol from agricultural and industrial waste in existing plants in a socioeconomically sustainable ...

This video segment adapted from NOVA examines ethanol, a cleaner-burning fuel alternative to gasoline, and the efforts to produce it more efficiently. Today, most ethanol in the United States is made ...

A patented process for converting alcohol sourced from renewable or industrial waste gasses into jet or diesel fuel is being scaled up. A patented process for converting alcohol sourced from renewable ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Rapier is a chemical engineer covering the energy sector. This year begins the ninth year of cellulosic ethanol mandates in ...

Bioethanol, a renewable alternative to fossil fuels, is principally produced by fermenting sugars derived from biomass feedstocks. Conventional routes employ sugar‐rich crops such as sugarcane or ...