Green fuel from corn waste

After harvesting, the corn plants are released into the environment with many fibers which seem useless such as stems, leaves, shells, corns .

During their lifecycle, this waste produces much more carbon dioxide than the US permissible threshold. The problem is how to produce biofuels from corn waste products and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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The solution is to use waste products to produce ethanol and many other biofuels, thus reducing the amount of carbon in the arable land (the agent that creates greenhouse gases is much more than gasoline). This study is published in Nature Climate Change.

Group of scientists under the leadership of Professor Adam Liska, using supercomputing model at UNL Informatics Center, Netherlands to assess the harmful effects from corn waste on an area of ​​52 ha. If this kind of waste is decomposed naturally, the 5-year average is 100 gr CO / megajoule, 7% higher than the emission of gasoline.

Waste from corn is considered a major resource for cellulosic ethanol production. The US Department of Energy has provided more than $ 1 billion to support research into developing green energy from cellulose, including the utilization of waste from corn.