It’s talked about a lot in futuristic films cars from the future. In some films they have been shown as flying or automatic vehicles. Today we are not here to talk to you about ideas that are not even similar, but about: ecological fuel that mobility could change forever. We’re not talking about electric models either, but about something you’ve NEVER heard of.
United Kingdom is witnessing the achievements made by its scientists and is prepared to tackle unprecedented challenges. Manufacturers, marketing companies and customers themselves have long realized that traditional fuels need to change.
The emissions that go into the air every day are enormous and something needs to be done urgently. For example, various electric and hydrogen car parts have appeared on the scene. However, the neighboring country seems to have the solution to all the ills plaguing the industry.
The answer would lie in a product that we use almost every day: rice. The rice harvest leaves behind a large number of residues, also called stubble. In many countries they are disposed of through controlled burning, causing environmental problems.
In response to this situation, scientists from the Aston Universityawarded in 2020 as the University of the Year Through The guardhas entered into a project to convert this rice waste into biofuels.
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Over the past decade, blending biofuels and bio-based chemicals with gasoline has become the most sustainable proposition. Researchers from the aforementioned academic center must face current challenges while pursuing their goals.
The leader of this new initiative is the Dr. Alfred Fernandez-Castanesenior professor of biochemical engineering and principal investigator at Research Institute for Energy and Bioproducts (EBRI) by Aston University.
The project is expected to take two years to complete. The title is “An integrated approach for ethanol production from rice straw by microwave-assisted deep eutectic solvent pretreatment and sequential cultivation using Candida tropicalis and Saccharomyces cerevisiae”.
He will focus on finding clean and cost-effective alternatives for extracting the energy molecules from rice straw.
You will investigate clean and cost-effective methods to extract energy molecules from rice straw. “The challenges of converting rice straw into ethanol fall into four categories, and any progress on these challenges will be a significant advance in the current state of the art,” he said. chestnuts.
He added: “The first involves developing pretreatment conditions to break down complex polymers and enable lignin removal. Next is to investigate innovative biomass pretreatment technologies that combine green solvents and microwaves, and evaluate their impact on biomass morphology, structure and crystallinity.”
“We then try to develop innovative biotransformations using yeasts Candida tropicalis and Saccharomyces cerevisiae to efficiently convert sugars into ethanol.”
“These three challenges will lead to the fourth, which is to make the process sustainable and scalable, including the ability to recycle wastewater and use the yeast byproduct for animal feed,” he warned.
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The research is expected to culminate in November 2025 and will serve to promote sustainable biofuels, reduce environmental impact and promote food security internationally.
Although this ecological fuel could be a viable alternative for the future of carsThe end of combustion engine vehicles has not yet arrived. In June the UE You will make important decisions that can change everything.