Representatives of DuPont Co., a multinational chemical company, have announced plans to build a next-generation ethanol plant in Central Iowa near Nevada. It’s estimated that the ethanol plant will take anywhere from a year to a year and a half to build. It is expected to start producing ethanol by 2013. It will be situated …Continue reading “Ethanol plant to be built in Central Iowa”
Laura Jarboe pointed to a collection of test tubes in her Iowa State University laboratory. Some of the tubes looked like they were holding very weak coffee. That meant microorganisms – in this case, Shewanella bacteria – were growing and biochemically converting sugars into hydrocarbons, said Jarboe, an Iowa State assistant professor of chemical and …Continue reading “Iowa State hybrid lab combines technologies to make biorenewable fuels and products”
The Biofuels Digest, in its 2010 awards, recognizes Iowa State University as Institutional Research Facility of the Year. See the full story.
Biofuels Digest has released its “Top 100 People in Bioenergy” list, which includes Iowa Farm Bureau Director of the Bioeconomy Institute Robert C. Brown making the list at #61. View the entire list here.
Biofuels Digest has released its “Top 100 People in Bioenergy” list, which includes Iowa Farm Bureau Director of the Bioeconomy Institute Robert C. Brown making the list at #61. View the entire list here.
Engineering researcher Robert Brown has learned firsthand about the promise of biochar as a way to improve soil. Read the full story. Find out more about biochar technology and what researchers are saying about it. Check out details of the biochar conference that took place at Iowa State on June 27-30.
AMES, Iowa – Agriculture’s place in producing energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions will be the center of discussion during Iowa State University’s seventh annual bioeconomy conference. This year’s conference – “Growing the Bioeconomy: Solutions for Sustainability” – will be 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Dec. 1 at the Scheman Building at the Iowa State …Continue reading “Bioeconomy conference: Agriculture can store carbon, help sustain the planet”
