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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"bio-fuel"”.
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Lignocellulosic Bio Fuel Production In Iceland, A System Dynamics Approach.
… But still there is enormous amount of fossil fuel imports each year. This posses an enormous economic problem for Iceland as fossil fuels are non renewable and will eventually run out. The paper explores the possibility of utilizing Wood grown in Iceland through the process of pyrolysis and …
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Appropriate harvesting stage of sweet-sterm sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L) Moench) cultivar for optimum bio-ethanol production in Namibia
… growing global concern over dwindling fossil fuel supply. This development has led to increased interest in exploration of alternative energy sources, especially bio-fuel. Sweet sorghum (Sorghum bicolor), sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum), corn (Zea mays), wheat (Triticum aestivum), rape seed …
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Prospects for increased low-grade bio-fuels use in home and commercial heating applications
… eventually find viable alternatives for fossil fuels in large segments of the energy market, there are economically attractive fossil fuel alternatives today for niche markets. The easiest fossil fuels to replace are those with the highest cost and that provide the lowest-grade energy. …
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Optimisation of South Africa's biomass to bio-ethanol supply chain network
This study is about the optimisation of bio-ethanol supply chains for economic and environmental objectives, using a mathematical programming approach. A superstructure presented as a Mixed Integer Linear Programme (MILP) model that adequately captures the key variables in South Africa's …
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HEALING STRIP
… oil peak output, the paradigm shift of fossil fuel dependence to a renewable resource calls for a new exploration of possibilities to empower our nation. To pursue this, we entertained biological solutions that self-regenerate in the form of algae bio-fuel. We begin colonizing our unwanted dead …
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Yield and quality of cool-season perennial grasses for forage and biomass feedstocks in Northeast Colorado
The burning of fossil fuels has led to an increase of the greenhouse gas CO2, which traps heat and increases temperatures of the global climate. The increases of the greenhouse gases, CO2, CH4 and N2O, have been attributed as the cause of the climatic warming during the industrial era. One …
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Hydrogen as an energy product from agriculturally produced sugars and starches in South Africa
Bio-fuels have a significant role to play in the South African energy economy. They have a potential to impact positively on the quality of life of a large number of people while providing environmental gains geared at addressing environmental challenges such as global warming. Technologies to …
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Green Design of a Cellulosic Bio-butanol Supply Chain Network with Life Cycle Assessment
… created abundant opportunities for renewable fuel production and commercialization. Bio-butanol is a very promising renewable fuel for the future transportation market. Many efforts have been made to improve its production process, but seldom has bio-butanol research discussed the integration …
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Experimental study of the bio-additives in biodiesel fuel on performance and emissions characteristics of diesel engine
Among the alternative fuels the Bio diesel is one the most common and familiar to all. It’s biodegradable, environment friendly as well as suitable source, to meet the future energy crises. The main concern of this experimental analysis is to reach a tentative goal, how this fuel can be utilised …
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Bacterial Interactions of Inoculated Price's Potato Bean (<i>APIOS PRICEANA</i>): A Biological Study
… Its use spans human and animal consumption, bio fuel, medicinal and horticultural purposes. This research was initiated to investigate a biological symbiosis between A. priceana and known beneficial soil bacteria which may indicate growth potential of known colonies. Experimental treatments …
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Foundational platform for mammalian synthetic biology
The emergent field of synthetic biology is different from many other biological engineering efforts, in that its roots, design principles, and forward engineering perspective have been adopted from electrical engineering and computer science. Synthetic biology is uniquely poised to make great …
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Evaluation of Prairie Cordgrass (Spartina pectinat, link) for Biomass Production on Marginal Land
<p>Biomass is a renewable resource that offers many advantages to a successful perennial grass-based bioenergy model. Many of today’s economic problems have led scientists and farmers to search for new crops that increase agricultural sustainability and profitability. The use of bioenergy crops …
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Networks of breakthrough technologies and their use in strategic games for competitive advantage
… where Google competes with Magic Leap, in the bio-fuel sector and showed a dominant position for Google. The last three scenarios analyzed represent real-world cases, two in the autonomous vehicle domain involving Apple and Toyota and Apple and Tesla and one in the robotics domain involving …
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Quantifying the Environmental Performance of a Stream Habitat Improvement Project
… plants for revegetation; (3) minimizing fuel combustion in heavy equipment and haul trucks by ensuring clear access to the channel and streambank, using small engine equipment to clear access corridors during site preparation, running more fuel-efficient machinery or bio-fuel powered …
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Investigation of combustion enhancement with biomass derived fuels blended with diesel
… and environmental viability of transportation fuels increase, various types of fuel additives are now being researched to meet these needs. Biofuels are of particular interest to the automobile industry because they have the potential to significantly reduce particulate matter (PM), hydrocarbon …
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Determining and differentiating protein-biopolymer interactions
… is to understand how proteins selectively bind biopolymers. This problem is closely examined by quantitative modeling of the readout mechanism of protein binding to DNA, determining the specific DNA sequences recognized by transmembrane receptors and resolving the effect of enzymes on …
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Molecular Characterization of Sugarcane Yellow Leaf Virus (SCYLV) and its Effect on Sucrose Transporters in Sugarcane Saccharum spp. hybrids
… of years, recently it is used to produce bioethanol, a renewable bio-fuel energy source. Sugarcane yellow leaf virus (SCYLV) was detected in the late 1990s first in Hawaii as a causal agent of a sugarcane disease which leads to sugarcane yellow leaf syndrome and reduced sugar yield. The …
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Effect of pretreatment on the breakdown of lignocellulosic matrix in barley straw as feedstock for biofuel production
Lignocellulosic biomass is composed of cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin and extraneous compounds (waxes, fats, gums, starches, alkaloids, resins, tannins, essential oils, silica, carbonates, oxalates, etc). The sugars within the complex carbohydrates (cellulose and hemicellulose) can be accessed …
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Trockenheitsreaktionen und holzanatomische Eigenschaften der Zitter-Pappel (Populus tremula L.) – Physiologie und QTL-Mapping
… spp.) kann eine bedeutende Rolle im Mix der Bioenergieressourcen in Deutschland spielen. Trotz eines günstigen Energieinput-Energieoutput-Verhältnisses ist das Erreichen wirtschaftlich zufriedenstellender Ergebnisse mit KUP jedoch auf den meisten potenziellen Anbauflächen durch hohe Ansprüche …