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Get to know biofuels

by Mike Loizzo
October 8, 2020

For over 100 years, burning fossil fuels has generated most of the energy required to propel our cars, power our businesses, and keep the lights on in our homes. Almost all (95%) of the world's transportation energy comes from petroleum-based ... READ MORE

Category: Agribusiness, Crops, Natural Resources, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Ann Wilkie, Biofuel, Energy, Ethanol, Fossil Fuels, Soil And Water Sciences, Soil And Water Sciences Department, Soil Water And Ecosystem Sciences

UF/IFAS-developed sorghum cultivars can produce thousands of gallons of ethanol

by Brad Buck
December 13, 2017

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Sweet sorghum is not just for breakfast anymore. Although sorghum is a source for table syrup, scientists see a future in which we convert sorghum to biofuel, rather than relying on fossil fuel. That potential just grew ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: Ethanol, Microbiology And Cell Science, Microcell, News, Sorghum, Stan Mayfield Biorefinery Plant, Wilfred Vermerris

What Are Biofuels?

by Samantha Murray
January 4, 2016

When you fill up at the gas station, you may have noticed labels stating the percentage of ethanol in your gasoline. Ethanol is a kind of biofuel made from sugar, corn, or other plant sources that have gone through a fermentation process.1 Other ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, Natural Resources, SFYL Hot Topic
Tags: Biofuels, Carbon Cycle, Corn, Ethanol, Fossil Fuels, Renewable Energy, Renwable, Sugar, Sustainable Hot Topic

E-10 FUEL Advice for Boaters

by Samantha Murray
January 30, 2013

Since the introduction of 10% ethanol to gasoline (E-10 fuel) many boaters, including yours truly, have had problems with fouled fuel filters and marine engines not running at their top performance. The ethanol added to the fuel combines ... READ MORE

Category: Natural Resources
Tags: Boat, Boat Storage, E-10, Energy, Ethanol, Fuel, Panhandle Outdoors, Phase Separation, Recreation, Winterize

UF researchers develop plant-based technology that helps biofuels, may fight cancer

by Caroline Warwick
March 29, 2012

Image of synthesized lignin nanotubes GAINESVILLE, Fla. — For the first time, University of Florida researchers have developed plant-based technology that could reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil and may also help treat cancer. Known ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Conservation, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research, Work & Life
Tags: Bioethanol, Biofuel, Biorefinery, Cancer, Ethanol, Institute Of Food And Agricultural Sciences, Lignin, Lignin Nanotubes, Luisa Amelia Dempere, Nanotechnology, Sugarcane, Sweet Sorghum, University Of Florida, Wilfred Vermerris

UF, Buckeye dedicate ethanol production facility in Perry

by BLOGS.IFAS
January 10, 2012

Caption at bottom. Click here for high-resolution image. GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Many building dedications feature a ribbon-cutting; this one included a front-end loader ceremoniously dumping a scoopful of pulverized sugarcane stalks. It was ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research, Work & Life
Tags: Adam Putnam, Bernie Machen, Biofuel, Bioplastic, Biorefinery, Buckeye Technologies, Debbie Mayfield, Ethanol, Institute Of Food And Agricultural Sciences, Jack Payne, John Crowe, Lonnie Ingram, Perry, Pilot Plant, Stan Mayfield, University Of Florida

UF researchers receive $643,000 federal grant to study wood-quality gene for fuel production

by BLOGS.IFAS
July 23, 2009

Caption at bottom. Click here for high resolution image. GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- A newly discovered gene may be the key to producing fuel ethanol more efficiently from trees, and the University of Florida researchers who identified it have ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, UF/IFAS
Tags: Cellulose, Ethanol, Kirst, Lignin, Paper, Poplar, Pulp, Wood

Ethanol Pilot Plant Ushers in New Era for UF Biofuels Research

by Patricia Standeford
October 13, 2008

By: Stu Hutson - (352) 273-3569 Sources: Lonnie Ingram - ingram@ufl.edu, (352) 392-8176 Pratap Pullammanappallil - pcpratap@ufl.edu, (352) 392-1864 x203 View Photo GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Gasoline prices in the United States have fluctuated ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Ethanol, Lonnie Ingram, Pratap Pullammanappallil

UF/IFAS Ethanol Pilot Plant Dedication (stand alone photo – no story available)

by Patricia Standeford
October 10, 2008

View Photo In this photo released from the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, microbiologist Lonnie Ingram (foreground) explains ethanol production to (left to right) U.S. Rep. Cliff Stearns, UF Senior Vice ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, UF/IFAS
Tags: Bernie Machen, Cliff Stearns, Ethanol, Jimmy Cheek, Larry Cretul

Cellulosic Ethanol Pilot Plant Dedication to Be Held on the UF Campus

by BLOGS.IFAS
October 6, 2008

By: Stu Hutson - (352) 273-3569 GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- A ceremony to dedicate the new cellulosic ethanol pilot plant on the UF campus will be held this Friday October 10, 2008. The program will begin at 1:00pm in room 141 of Frazier Rogers ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, UF/IFAS
Tags: Ethanol

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