North Central Regional Sun Center awards $940,000 in biofuel research grants

In South Dakota, the North Central Regional Sun Grant Center awarded $940,000 to five projects out of more than 50 proposals.

The grants are supported by the U.S. Department of Transportation Biobased Transportation Research Program.

Grant winners include a project on Sustainable Cropping Systems for Harvesting Corn Stover for Biomass at Iowa State University; Developing Sustainable Renewable Energy Systems for Practical Utilization of Bulky Biomass at the University of Minnesota; Diversifying Midwestern biofuel feedstock: An evaluation of nitrogen-fixing Alnus and Salix germplasm at the University of Minnesota; Developing a Sustainable Feedstock and Next-Generation Processing Technologies for Biofuels Production at South Dakota State University; and Novel Recoverable Enzyme Nanoparticles for Cellulose Hydrolysis at the University of Wyoming.

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