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Making biofuels from the papermaking industry's black liquor waste

Sometimes, people just need to make the best with what they have got to work with. This is what paper mills are trying to do by burning the "black liquor" waste which is a leftover remnant of chemicals and the lignin. As part of the Kraft process (.pdf link), the leftovers are burned to create steam which turns large generators, which in turn provide electricity for the plant. In fact, enough electricity is generated that they can feed some back into the grid. This Kraft process is used for about 80% of all paper made. But what if there was a ... Read more →

The Nazi/apartheid history of the Fischer-Tropsch coal-to-gas process Sebastian Blanco

I don't like the wording in Slate's headline for this great story on the Fischer-Tropsch coal-to-liquid process (is it really "one of the world's most exciting new fuel sources"? Is it really even ...

Improvements in generating clean diesel from coal Bruno Vanzieleghem

One of the possible avenues for reducing our dependence on imported oil is to convert coal in to diesel fuel. The Fischer-Tropsch process, which is a nearly century old chemical technique for ...

Making biofuels from the papermaking industry's black liquor waste 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Sometimes, people just need to make the best with what they have got to work with. This is what paper mills are trying to do by burning the "black liquor" waste which is a leftover remnant of chemicals and the lignin. As part of the Kraft process (.pdf link), the leftovers are burned to create ...

The Nazi/apartheid history of the Fischer-Tropsch coal-to-gas process 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

I don't like the wording in Slate's headline for this great story on the Fischer-Tropsch coal-to-liquid process (is it really "one of the world's most exciting new fuel sources"? Is it really even new if it was developed in the 1920s?), but I still encourage you to read the story. The world is a ...

Improvements in generating clean diesel from coal 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

One of the possible avenues for reducing our dependence on imported oil is to convert coal in to diesel fuel. The Fischer-Tropsch process, which is a nearly century old chemical technique for converting coal in to liquid fuels, has been significantly improved by researchers at Rutgers University and ...


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