Mahdi Abu-Omar, Purdue's R.B. Wetherill Professor of Chemistry, holds a small vial containing results of a new catalytic process that can convert the lignin in wood into high-value chemical products ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Researchers have demonstrated a new process to convert all biomass into liquid fuel, and the method could make possible mobile processing plants. The researchers at Purdue ...

UC Riverside chemical engineering researchers have completed construction of a multi-kilogram-scale biomass processing ...

Taking a chemical approach, researchers have developed a two-step method to convert the cellulose in raw biomass into a promising biofuel. The process is unprecedented in its use of untreated, ...

A University of Maine engineer and his research team have discovered a revolutionary new chemical process that can transform forest residues, along with other materials such as municipal solid waste, ...

Turning biomass like switchgrass and other plants into usable fuel is no easy feat. Gasification, one method of converting feedstocks to fuels, traditionally produces greenhouse gas emissions and ...

Singapore-based Tuas Power has revealed plans to fully overhaul its 133MW coal-fired power plant and operate solely on biomass fuel sources by the end of 2028. This new development marks a marked ...

The oil palm tree grows in some of the world's most biodiverse countries, the ones that feature in nature programmes such as David Attenborough's Planet Earth, filled with images of luxuriant growth ...