biomass

Christmas trees to yield key Tamiflu ingredient

...Our research has shown that 2-to-3 per cent of the biomass from various pine, spruce and fir trees is extractible shikimic acid,” Biolyse principal Claude Mercure said yesterday. Once the process becomes commercialized, the company is aiming to eventually produce 1 one to three tons of shikimic acid a month...

Contaminated Land Can Be Cleaned By Micro-Organisms

...teria and put it into plants with large amounts of biomass so as to degrade the explosive and make it harmless. The method can be sustained as its cost and maintenance were low, and can serve the purpose of cleaning vast areas of contaminated land, particularly at industrial sites and military training range...

Alternate ways to produce HAS from tobacco plants

...is produced in the chloroplasts, the more the leaf biomass the more the albumin. But the trails are all conducted in the tobacco plants have been with laboratory varieties. The aim is to do tests with commercial varieties. The commercial varieties of tobacco are some 30 times more productive in terms of bi...

Engineering Nutrient-Rich Plants Made For Feasible By New Findings

...soils considered marginal and also increasing crop biomass in soils now in cultivation, more feasible. The findings have been presented by Guerinot at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) in the Hynes Convention Center, Boston. Most people rely on plants for their dietary ...

Bacteria Can Survive In Extreme Heat

...biofuel production that will not only provide more biomass per acre, but absorb more of the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, as well." Source-Eurekalert RAS...

Are You In The 40s ? Check for COPD

...nd chemicals encountered on the job and smoke from biomass fuels, such as coal and wood.' Source-Newswise/ASH/L...

Study Finds Link Between Smoking and Increased Risk of Tuberculosis

...d's people cook and heat their homes with coal and biomass fuels such as wood, animal dung and charcoal, whic...sive smoking (secondhand smoke) and the burning of biomass fuels was associated with an increased TB risk. The study appears online on January 16, 2007, in ...

India to Propose Global Fund for Clean Energy Technologies

...per says technologies to tap energy resources like biomass can be financed by a venture capital fund located with a multilateral financing institution, which will also have the rights to intellectual property. The technologies so developed may then be given to developing countries at cost, while the rich n...

Olive Stones to Depollute Industrial Sewage Water

...osorption, which is a property of certain types of biomass to retain pollutants. It can be used to purify wat...d chemical process, which enables certain types of biomass for example, agricultural residues- to retain the hard metals found in industrial sewage water. The ...

Researchers Discover Starch Cocktail Fuel for green Car

... returned to the atmosphere. As the starch is from biomass - wood and plants - the same amount of CO2 is released by the conversion which is taken out of the atmosphere by plants to produce the starch in the first place. As such, the process is carbon neutral. According to him, the technology is the soluti...

Transcontinental Wildfire Emissions Monitored from Space

...fires." Plumes of carbon monoxide signal strong biomass burning. Apart from the carbon monoxide detected by SCIAMACHY, numerous other compounds are emitted that have severe consequences for air quality and climate. Depending on the aridity, much of Australia is prone to fires between October and March,...