• The proposed rule contains the EPA's analysis of the lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with certain biofuels produced using grain sorghum oil extracted at dry mill ethanol plants at any point downstream from sorghum grinding, also known as distillers sorghum oil. (biodieselmagazine.com)
  • The agency's analysis determined that biodiesel and heating oil produced from distillers sorghum oil via a transesterification process, and renewable jet fuel, heating oil, naphtha and liquefied petroleum gas (LGP) produced from distillers sorghum oil via a hydrotreating process, would meet the lifecycle GHG emissions reduction threshold of 50 percent required for advanced biofuels and biomass-based diesel under the Renewable Fuel Standard. (biodieselmagazine.com)
  • NexSteppe, Inc. in its collaboration with DuPont to develop advanced sorghum feedstocks for biofuels, biopower and bio-based products. (sidley.com)
  • Several varieties of switch-grass, sorghum and various trees have recently been planted at an experimental farm at the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources as part of a five-year project to develop the second-generation of liquid biofuels. (missouri.edu)
  • provide an excellent overview of the potential of five C4 grasses from the Panicoideae clade (maize, Miscanthus , sorghum, sugarcane, and switchgrass) as lignocellulosic feedstock for the production of biofuels. (frontiersin.org)
  • Biogas is competitive, viable, and generally a sustainable energy resource due to abundant supply of cheap feedstocks and availability of a wide range of biogas applications in heating, power generation, fuel, and raw materials for further processing and production of sustainable chemicals including hydrogen, and carbon dioxide and biofuels. (hindawi.com)
  • South Africa's National Biofuels Industrial Strategy, developed in 2007, envisages that smallholder farmers would grow the bulk of feedstock crops such as maize and sugarcane that would be converted into biofuels. (uwc.ac.za)
  • Jacobs's research suggests that strong policy and state support could help, perhaps through subsidising the cultivation of feedstock crops as in the USA and Europe, and initially in Brazil, or through tax rebates and incentives in the biofuels industry. (uwc.ac.za)
  • Washington, D.C. - The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on the life-cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with biofuels that are produced from grain sorghum oil extracted at dry-mill ethanol plants. (growthenergy.org)
  • The agency stated that its evaluation of the GHG emissions shows that producing biofuels from distillers sorghum oil results in no significant upstream agricultural GHG emissions. (growthenergy.org)
  • As such, biodiesel produced from distillers sorghum would meet the life-cycle GHG emissions reduction threshold required for advanced biofuels and biomass-based diesel under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program. (growthenergy.org)
  • The National Biofuels Policy 2018 seeks to expand the range of feedstock available for ethanol production beyond sugar molasses, an official statement said. (thehindubusinessline.com)
  • by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Sweet sorghum stardom! (advancedbiofuelsusa.info)
  • Biofuels produced here will utilize locally available feedstocks that do not compete with food supplies. (wraltechwire.com)
  • Technical challenges of using sweet sorghum for biofuels are a short harvest period for highest sugar content and fast sugar degradation during storage. (retelprojekt.pl)
  • With a shorter crop cycle of 4 months, as against 12 months required for sugarcane, it is also a cost-effective feedstock. (copperwiki.org)
  • While sugarcane requires 36,000 cu.m of water to produce a kiloliter of bio-ethanol, sweet sorghum requires only 4,000 cubic meters. (copperwiki.org)
  • Jacobs applied these yardsticks to four potential feedstock crops: grain sorghum, sugarcane, soya beans and sunflowers (the national strategy currently regards maize primarily as a food crop, not as a feedstock). (uwc.ac.za)
  • Sugarcane juice, sugar-containing crops like beet, sorghum, corn and cassava, and damaged grains unfit for human consumption, such as rotten potato, wheat and broken rice, can be considered for ethanol production. (thehindubusinessline.com)
  • By controlling these metabolic pathways, Amyris is able to design microbes, primarily yeast, to be tiny living factories that convert plant-sourced sugars from crops such as sugarcane or sweet sorghum into target molecules. (altenergystocks.com)
  • Amyris expects to scale production initially using Brazilian sugarcane as a feedstock. (altenergystocks.com)
  • The U.S. EPA has released a notice of proposed rulemaking related to fuel pathways using distillers sorghum oil as feedstock for biofuel production. (biodieselmagazine.com)
  • He joined the research group of Stephen Kresovich at Cornell University, where he studied the genetics of sorghum varieties being developed for biofuel production. (wikipedia.org)
  • The researchers say that a large pool of untapped diversity exists in other species and subspecies of sorghum which opens new avenues of research to generate sorghum lines optimized for biofuel production. (greencarcongress.com)
  • Sustainable feedstock production, the creation of adequate feedstock for biofuel production without compromising food availability and improved skill, wealth and job creation will also support the success of the biofuel industry in the region. (science20.com)
  • These advances in methodology and knowledge will aid in the improvement of crop selection for improved performance under water limited conditions, not only in sorghum, but other prominent commercial crops. (usda.gov)
  • Feedstocks would be such things as switchgrasses, sorghum and other easy-to-grow, highly renewable crops. (indyweek.com)
  • Some bioenergy crops are less genetically tractable than sorghum, which could make them more difficult to engineer for this purpose …," notes Scown. (chemicalprocessing.com)
  • This was mainly due to the currently high prices of feedstock crops as a result of recent poor harvests. (uwc.ac.za)
  • My work clearly shows that the production of biofuel from these crops would only become viable if there was a substantial reduction in feedstock prices. (uwc.ac.za)
  • However, if the United States successfully develops cellulosic biomass (wood fibers and crop residue) as an economical alternative feedstock for ethanol production, corn would become one of many crops and plant-based materials used to produce ethanol (see "That 70s Energy Scene" ). (usda.gov)
  • Biofuel feedstock demand for a sustainable operation is substantial and can only be met by continuous supply of annual and perennial crops and high biomass trees. (fvsu.edu)
  • Studies are being conducted at FVSU to address these issues using annual crops like sweet sorghum, forage sorghum and pearl millet, perennial crops like energycane, napiergrass, giant reed, and switchgrass, and woody biomass trees, like paulownia. (fvsu.edu)
  • Our research findings will establish the optimum level and mode of nitrogen input to maintain sustainable production of biofuel feedstocks from annual and perennial crops suitable for marginal soils of the southern Coastal Plain. (fvsu.edu)
  • Sweet sorghum as a model system for bioenergy crops. (ugm.ac.id)
  • One of the reasons for interest in these second-generation cellulosic feedstocks is that if they can be grown on low-quality soil, they wouldn't compete for land with food crops, such as corn. (fuelfreedom.org)
  • Opportunities and challenges of sweet sorghum as a feedstock for biofuel. (ugm.ac.id)
  • Biofortified sorghum and pearl millet , which have been developed by ICRISAT in partnership with HarvestPlus, are crucial innovations for populations that consume millet. (icrisat.org)
  • Biomass sorghum is also studied as a feedstock for biofuel and forage. (usda.gov)
  • Forage sorghum is being grown in Chickasha as part of the bio-energy research center work on using sorghum in the production of Cellulosic ethanol. (okstate.edu)
  • Sweet sorghum produces much higher forage yields than grain sorghum, but feed quality will likely be lesser because there is no grain. (biobased.us)
  • By the 1950s, about 90% of the acreage of sweet sorghums in the United States was grown for forage. (retelprojekt.pl)
  • Sweet sorghum has been used for producing sugar, fermenting, and making forage. (retelprojekt.pl)
  • It also proposes to add approved pathways to the RFS regulations for biodiesel and heating oil manufactured from distillers sorghum oil using the transesterification process, and for renewable diesel, jet fuel, heating oil, naphtha and LGP produced from distillers sorghum oil via a hydrotreating process. (biodieselmagazine.com)
  • 1. Sorghum grows better than corn in hotter climates and requires less water. (greencarcongress.com)
  • Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma are three of the nation's main sorghum-producing states and the crop is starting to displace corn in the Panhandle because of its water efficiency. (okstate.edu)
  • In the future, corn may cease to be the main feedstock for U.S. ethanol production if cellulosic biomass is successfully developed as an alternative. (usda.gov)
  • As long as corn is the primary feedstock for ethanol in the U.S., however, sustained increases in ethanol production will eventually require adjustments in the corn market. (usda.gov)
  • The smallest reduction for a pathway - the combination of feedstock, production process and fuel type - for corn, the overwhelmingly predominant US feedstock, was 4.96 CI and the largest was 12.87 CI. (governorsbiofuelscoalition.org)
  • From corn and castor to sorghum and sweet potato, it seems like almost any crop is capable of running our cars these days. (anthropocenemagazine.org)
  • The main feedstock for corn is for fuel ethanol production in the United States because of its availability and its relatively low cost historically. (articlesfit.com)
  • Farmers on the hot, dry plains from Texas to South Dakota grow and use grain sorghum like Corn Belt farmers use corn. (biobased.us)
  • Large acreages of grain sorghum are also grown in Africa and Asia in areas where the climate is too hot and dry for corn. (biobased.us)
  • Grain sorghum acreage is somewhat greater than acreages for oats and barley, but considerably less than the land area planted to corn, wheat, and soybeans. (biobased.us)
  • In cooler, more humid regions, corn is usually a better choice than grain sorghum, but renewed interest in grain sorghum occurs whenever hotter and drier than normal growing seasons are experienced. (biobased.us)
  • Feed value of grain sorghum is similar to corn. (biobased.us)
  • The grain has more protein and fat than corn, but is lower in vitamin A. When compared with corn on a per pound basis, grain sorghum feeding value ranges from 90% to nearly equal to corn. (biobased.us)
  • Sweet Sorghum / Milo as a Biofuel Feedstock to Replace Corn. (biobased.us)
  • Sorghum juice-derived ethanol is cheaper to produce than corn ethanol because it doesn't require the cooking and enzymes that corn requires for conversion of starch to sugar to fuel grade alcohol. (retelprojekt.pl)
  • Mechanistic modelling suggests that reducing stomatal conductance (gs) could improve sorghum intrinsic water use efficiency (iWUE) and biomass production. (usda.gov)
  • Rapid methods for predicting the fermentation quality of sorghum are needed to enhance the production of ethanol from sorghum. (usda.gov)
  • This ethanol-production-facility simulation highlights the total operating cost and capital investment for nonengineered biomass sorghum feedstock. (chemicalprocessing.com)
  • The production of feedstock and the fuel itself would ultimately lead to socio-economic improvement and, with the correct implementation and management, the controversy about feedstock used for fuel vs. food can be resolved. (science20.com)
  • New analysis from Frost Sullivan ( http://www.chemicals.frost.com ), Strategic Opportunities for the Biofuel Industry in Key Sub-Saharan African Countries, finds that while the market is still in its development stage, there is extensive land available for biofuel feedstock production. (science20.com)
  • Sub-Saharan Africa represents a potentially lucrative market for the development, growth and use of biofuel owing to its suitable climatic conditions, vast arable land for feedstock production and the need for African countries to reduce their fuel import bills, notes Frost and Sullivan Industry Analyst Mani James. (science20.com)
  • The production of feedstocks and biofuel would improve the agriculture sector which would, in turn, promote employment and wealth creation of these communities. (science20.com)
  • Therefore, sufficient land is available for the production of feedstock such as sugar cane, cassava, sweet sorghum, palm oil and jatropha. (science20.com)
  • The underlying purpose of the grant, according to ARPA-E, is to examine how data has been collected in feedstock production environments and turn that research toward better sensor systems for quantifying field-level emissions. (okstate.edu)
  • According to ARPA-E, ethanol and other bio-based fuels have the potential to provide an emissions-free source of energy on a net basis, but not without a significant shift in current feedstock production practices. (okstate.edu)
  • Increasing environmental and policy concerns and measures have generated increasing interest in the use of biomass resources as renewable feedstock for electricity generation, fuel production, chemical processing, and hydrogen production [ 9 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Amyris also has co-development agreements with companies in a variety of markets, including with Total to develop renewable jet fuel and with Kuraray to develop polymers to replace petroleum-derived feedstock such as butadiene and isoprene, allowing Amyris to target high-value markets while ramping up production of renewable diesel. (altenergystocks.com)
  • Each of these steps in the production process - from the feedstock, through fermentation, to recovery and finishing - use processes that are already used by other industries today, enabling cost-effective scaling of production. (altenergystocks.com)
  • Researchers processed and experimentally measured ethanol production from five different herbaceous feedstocks. (advancedbiofuelsusa.info)
  • But as biofuel boosters talk up production potential of these various feedstocks, new data suggest that most claims of how much fuel can be farmed from the land are wildly exaggerated. (anthropocenemagazine.org)
  • 1996. Comparison among sweet sorghum cultivars, lines, and hybrids for sugar production. (ugm.ac.id)
  • Sorghum production. (ugm.ac.id)
  • Sweet sorghum is an ideal feedstock for fuel ethanol production in the Southeast and Midwest. (retelprojekt.pl)
  • Fermentation Sweet sorghum stalk processing for ethanol production Fermentation is a multidisciplinary process based on Juice extraction the chemistry, biochemistry and microbiology of the raw materials. (retelprojekt.pl)
  • Sweet Sorghum - A Potential Alternate Raw Material for Bio-ethanol and Bio- energy, An assessment of sweet sorghum cultivars for ethanol production, View 2 excerpts, references background and results, By clicking accept or continuing to use the site, you agree to the terms outlined in our. (retelprojekt.pl)
  • Sugar cane, sugar beet, and sweet sorghum are sugar produce used as feedstock for ethanol production. (freedissertation.com)
  • In an open-access study published in the journal PLOS ONE , the researchers assessed the stems of 12 varieties of sorghum for sugar content and ease of conversion to bioethanol. (greencarcongress.com)
  • Jose and his colleagues will be testing multiple varieties of switch-grass, biomass sorghum, willows and cottonwoods. (missouri.edu)
  • However, some sorghum varieties and hybrids which were developed to deter birds are less palatable due to tannins and phenolic compounds in the seed. (biobased.us)
  • Sweet sorghum is any of the many varieties of the sorghum grass whose stalks have a high sugar content. (retelprojekt.pl)
  • Sorghum is a model C4 crop made experimentally tractable by extensive genomic and genetic resources. (usda.gov)
  • One such crop is sweet sorghum. (copperwiki.org)
  • Grain sorghum may also be used as whole-plant silage, however another sorghum, sweet sorghum, was developed as a silage crop. (biobased.us)
  • An ancient grain originating in Africa, sorghum is now a very important crop for Brazil. (nuseed.com)
  • Within the biodiversity found in this crop, there are sorghums that accumulate sugars in the stem, the so-called sweet sorghums. (retelprojekt.pl)
  • A recent $3.1 million grant awarded to Oklahoma State University to study greenhouse gas emissions is expected to help sorghum farmers save money and improve the industry's sustainable field management practices. (okstate.edu)
  • Our hope is that this data will help grain sorghum producers capture revenue by following more sustainable practices," Kakani said. (okstate.edu)
  • WASHINGTON, Nov. 6, 2013 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced it has awarded nearly $10 million to a consortium of academic, industry and government organizations led by Colorado State University (CSU) and their partners to research using insect-killed trees in the Rockies as a sustainable feedstock for bioenergy. (usda.gov)
  • Hybrids: Perennial, Sterile, High-Biomass Feedstocks. (confex.com)
  • In addition to sorghum, the team is working on switchgrass as well. (chemicalprocessing.com)
  • describe the composition and saccharification dynamics of S. viridis aboveground biomass as similar to sorghum, maize, and switchgrass, confirming its potential as model species for panicoid translational genomics. (frontiersin.org)
  • These included mapping a gene controlling the average sugar content of sweet sorghum and identifying quantitative trait loci controlling the chemical composition of sorghum leaves and stems. (wikipedia.org)
  • Sweet sorghum is also environment friendly as it is carbon dioxide neutral and does not add to greenhouse gas emissions . (copperwiki.org)
  • One hectare of sweet sorghum cultivation absorbs and emits 45 tons of carbon during its growth cycle. (copperwiki.org)
  • These results help to identify the most important factors affecting the quality of sweet sorghum juice under different processing and storage conditions, enabling development of effective strategies to process the juice, preserve fermentable sugars, and retain the processing properties of the juice during processing, transportation, and storage. (retelprojekt.pl)
  • Originating in Africa and Asia, where it is still a dietary staple, sweet sorghum was in wide use across the United States from the mid-19th century until the turn of the 20th, when its popularity declined due to the convenience of granulated sugar. (retelprojekt.pl)
  • Sweet sorghum stalks contain up to 75% juice, varying between 12 and 23% in sugar. (retelprojekt.pl)
  • Rio' sweet sorghum [Sorghum bicolorz (L.) Moench. (retelprojekt.pl)
  • Sweet sorghum juice and traditional ethanol substrate i.e. (retelprojekt.pl)
  • Sweet sorghum is known across the southeastern portion of the United States as a sweet and nutritious substitute for sugar products. (retelprojekt.pl)
  • Juice freshly expressed from Sorghum bicolor for making sweet sorghum syrup contained 10 8 microorganisms per ml. (retelprojekt.pl)
  • We have been handling sweet sorghum and boiling it down as a sugar for more than 200 years," Heckemeyer said. (retelprojekt.pl)
  • Sweet sorghum juice yield varied between 15.2 and 71.1 m 3 ha −1 depending on the year, the soil type, and the N rate (P (retelprojekt.pl)
  • Switch-grass is a promising biofuel feedstock because it is a perennial plant that requires little fertilization and can be grown in almost all of the contiguous states. (missouri.edu)
  • The seed pods of Pongamia, a perennial tree which can grow in a wide variety of environments, including arid areas and also in estuaries, are harvested and crushed for the oil, which can then be refined for feedstock for bio-diesel. (copperwiki.org)
  • Karakterisasi Delapan Galur Harapan Sorgum Manis ( Sorghum bicolor L. Moench. (ugm.ac.id)
  • Identifikasi Pengaruh Beberapa Karakter Agronomi Terhadap Daya Hasil Sorgum ( Sorghum bicolor L . Moench) Dengan Analisis Lintas. (ugm.ac.id)
  • 1993. Descriptors for Sorghum ( Sorghum bicolor L. Moech). (ugm.ac.id)
  • Scientists from the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls at the University of Adelaide have discovered that a variety of sorghum growing wild in Australia-Arun-theoretically has the potential to yield some 10,344 liters of bioethanol per hectare (1,106 gallons US per acre) from stem tissues alone. (greencarcongress.com)
  • We are advancing canola, carinata, sorghum, and sunflower by adding VALUE BEYOND YIELD for growers, end-use customers, consumers and our planet. (nuseed.com)
  • In this study, novel machine learning and image processing methods, along with high-throughput phenotyping for WUE traits were developed for the analysis of 869 field-grown sorghum accessions. (usda.gov)
  • These traits were then the subject of genome-wide association study (GWAS) and transcriptome-wide association study (TWAS) across 869 field-grown biomass sorghum accessions. (usda.gov)
  • This Grain Sorghum (Milo) was grown in 2015 and its pretty outrageous! (biobased.us)
  • In 2013, research was conducted to evaluate the performance of the United Sorghum Checkoff Program (USCP) compliant with the criteria established by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for reporting the return-on-investment in market development and promotion, information, and research programs. (sorghumcheckoff.com)
  • Sugar beets and sugar cane are the most popular feedstocks. (articlesfit.com)
  • During the past 25 years, the grain sorghum acreage in the U.S. has ranged from 15 to 18 million acres per year. (biobased.us)
  • From this pipeline, we have shown (1) correlation between biomass and WUE traits, (2) heritability of WUE traits across the sorghum population, and (3) identification of genes possibly linked to WUE in related species. (usda.gov)
  • They are collaborators on improving traits in sorghum, and have also licensed some of our technologies," concludes Mortimer. (chemicalprocessing.com)
  • The work is expected to encourage discussion among technology developers, feedstock producers and other agricultural interests about how to best use the information and improve it even more. (okstate.edu)
  • Growth Energy has worked extensively with our producers, as well as the National Sorghum Producers , to make this important change in order to provide additional market opportunities. (growthenergy.org)
  • This is great news for numerous ethanol producers who use grain sorghum as a feed-stock, as it opens up an additional market for one of their key co-products," said Growth Energy CEO Emily Skor. (growthenergy.org)
  • With the correct management of the agriculture industry, the controversy about feedstock used for fuel vs. food could be resolved. (science20.com)
  • The US, the world's largest sorghum producer, is exploring the possibilities of using sorghum as bio-fuel. (copperwiki.org)
  • Alfalfa too has been identified as a potential feedstock for bio-fuel. (copperwiki.org)
  • While the effect of ILUC went down, those of other factors, such as an ethanol plant's feedstock or fuel source, increased. (governorsbiofuelscoalition.org)
  • the biorefinery produces 76 million litres of fuel ethanol and 160,000 tonnes of wet distillers grain ('wet cake') each year, from about 220,000 tonnes of sorghum. (bistrotachilles.be)
  • But there are many different "feedstocks" that can be used to produce the alcohol fuel. (fuelfreedom.org)
  • EPA's assessment concludes that using distillers sorghum oil as feedstock results in no significant agricultural sector GHG emissions. (biodieselmagazine.com)
  • In the United States, sorghum is used primarily as a feed grain for livestock. (biobased.us)
  • Nationwide, about 5.07 million acres were planted to grain sorghum, with a value that year of $1.58 billion. (okstate.edu)
  • Sorghum, another potential source of liquid biofuel, is well known for its drought tolerance, meaning it can provide a steady stream of raw product even in prolonged dry weather. (missouri.edu)
  • Other potential sources of cellulosic ethanol include trees and sorghum. (wraltechwire.com)
  • Jordon Shearer, executive director of the Oklahoma Sorghum Association and a producer near Slapout, Oklahoma, said the refinement of data has major implications for his industry and the environment. (okstate.edu)