In Washington, the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory said it is teaming up with Bridgestone to scale up a chemical process that converts ethanol into butadiene—synthetic rubber’s most important ingredient. At the center of the collaboration sits a catalyst developed by PNNL researchers that cuts out the need for heat and reduces the […]
Cover crops have multiple benefits—soil health is the most important benefit. Can Cover crops be a material feedstock supply center for biofuels? Primary challenges to adoption are uncertainties in use of cover crops across states and includes relative roles of climate, soil type, production practices, and policy.. A team of researchers including Daniel Santosa (PI), […]
Wet wastes could provide up to 6 billion gallons of SAF and saves on expensive alternative disposal processes that can reach as high as $4 per gallon of fuel. In this project, researchers propose a method to produce up to 1.5 billion gallons per year of SAF from wet waste (25 percent of fuels are […]
