In Switzerland, Empa researchers have extracted nanocellulose from a waste product of beer brewing and processed it into an aerogel. The high-quality biodegradable material could be used in food packaging. It all starts with the mash: the mixture of malt and water, which is stirred and gently heated for several hours. The resulting liquid is […]
In Germany, EU funded BIORECER project, currently in its 18th month, aims to increase the use and to improve the environmental sustainability and traceability of biological raw materials for the bio-based industry. The project additionally assesses novel value chains based on biological feedstocks, including organic by-products, waste and wastewater, in a BioResources Innovation Ecosystem Living-Lab (BRIE-LL). […]
In Pennsylvania, PPL Corporation and its research partners have been selected for a $72 million award negotiation by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) to help fund a ground-breaking carbon dioxide (CO2) capture research and development project expected to cost in excess of $100 million. The research project and […]
In California, greater understanding of how plants and microbes work together to store vast amounts of atmospheric carbon in the soil will help in the design of better bioenergy crops for the fight against climate change. Deciphering the mechanics of this mutually beneficial relationship is challenging, however, as conditions in nature are extremely difficult for […]
In the Isle of Man, Tech Explore reported that Professor David Chiaramonti, an expert in energy systems and power generation at the Polytechnic University of Turin in Italy, wants land that is unused, marginal and degraded to produce clean fuels for jets. The fuels would come from oilseed plants such as Camelina sativa and replace […]
In the UK, crushed rock can remove about 3-4 metric tons of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) per hectare per year and improve crop yields, results of a pioneering study have shown. The four-year field trial in the U.S. Corn Belt, led by researchers at the University of Sheffield’s Leverhulme Center for Climate Change Mitigation, shows […]
In Colorado, a multidisciplinary approach has enabled a research team at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to quantitatively define the relative positioning and arrangement of the polymers in Populus wood, and to create a computer model that details the findings. The research solving this macromolecular puzzle, Atomistic, Macromolecular Model of the Populus Secondary Cell Wall […]
In Germany, a consortium of 35 organizations from various countries in Europe is working on this in the Horizon Europe Innovation Action project entitled “Sustainable Circular Economy Transition: from Industrial Symbiosis to Hubs for Circularity (IS2H4C)” under the leadership of the University of Twente (NL). The four-year project aims to establish four industrial hubs: in […]
In Canada, the drive to capture airborne carbon dioxide from industrial waste and make it into fuel and plastics is gaining momentum after a team of researchers at McMaster University and computational chemistry experts at Copenhagen’s Danish Technical University uncovered precisely how the process works and where it bogs down. The researchers set out to […]
In Ireland, Silicon Republic reported that a new research project aims to support Ireland’s transition to a circular economy by reducing waste and boosting hydrogen production. The report highlighted that the the Nano2H2 project is a collaboration between Atlantic Technological University (ATU) and Trinity College Dublin, which aims to develop low-cost materials for the production […]
