Skip to main content

Soon, Sugarcane could be used as a biodiesel to power your car

Sugarcane can be genetically engineered to produce oil in its leaves and stems for biodiesel production, scientists, including one of Indian origin, have found.
The modified sugarcane plants also produce more sugar, which could be used for ethanol production, researchers said.The dual-purpose bioenergy crops are predicted to be more than five times more profitable per acre than soybeans and two times more profitable than corn, they said. Using a juicer, researchers led by the University of Illinois in the US extracted about 90 per cent of the sugar and 60 per cent of the oil from the plant.
The juice was fermented to produce ethanol and later treated with organic solvents to recover the oil. The team has patented the method used to separate the oil and sugar. They recovered 0.5 and 0.8 per cent oil from two of the modified sugarcane lines, which is 67 per cent and 167 per cent more oil than unmodified sugarcane, respectively. “The oil composition is comparable to that obtained from other feedstocks like seaweed or algae that are being engineered to produce oil,” said Vijay Singh, Director of the Integrated Bioprocessing Research Laboratory at Illinois.
We expected that as oil production increased, sugar production would decrease, based on our computer models,” said Stephen Long, Professor at Illinois.”However, we found that the plant can produce more oil without loss of sugar production, which means our plants may ultimately be even more productive than we originally anticipated,” Long said.
Long leads the research project Plants Engineered to Replace Oil in Sugarcane and Sweet Sorghum (PETROSS).To date, PETROSS has engineered sugarcane with 13 per cent oil, eight per cent of which is the oil that can be converted into biodiesel. According to the project’s economic analyses, plants with just five per cent oil would produce an extra 123 gallons of biodiesel per acre than soybeans and 350 more gallons of ethanol per acre than corn. The research was published in the journal Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

What is ARP Monitor?

ARP MONITOR It’s FREE  tool like arpwatch but for Windows OS. This tool can help with ARP activity monitoring in computer networks.   It allows you to catch intruders on the network, track MAC-IP bundles, detect scans, monitor real-time ARP protocol activity in the segment, and much more. This windows software monitors ethernet activity like unix apwatch and keeps a database of ethernet/ip address pairings. new activity - This ethernet/ip address pair has been used for the first time. new station - The ethernet address has not been seen before. flip flop - The ethernet address has changed from the most recently seen address to the second most recently seen address. changed ethernet address - The host switched to a new ethernet address.  Download :   Mirror: http://www.binaryplant.com/binaryplant-arp-monitor.exe
Post a Comment
Read more

Microsoft showing of its new xbox one dashboard

Microsoft revealed last week that it’s planning to  rebuild the Xbox One dashboard  with a focus on speed. While the software giant revealed common tasks will be faster, Mike Ybarra, head of platform engineering for Xbox, has now teased exactly what the new dashboard will look like. Microsoft is adding a new Xbox button part of the guide that slides into view, with the ability to quickly switch between recent apps or games without having to navigate back to the home of the dashboard. This subtle change could speed up the Xbox One dashboard significantly. One of the big issues of the current guide is heading back to home and watching the entire system slow down and lag, or refresh randomly. The new guide is accessible with a single button press, and it appears the old home concept will be replaced entirely with this quicker method. That should make the Xbox One guide a lot more like the Xbox 360 version, and just easier to use in general.  Windows Central  has ...
1 comment
Read more