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Collaborative research uses 1xbet online sports betting to build better biofuel

Monday, Aug. 4, 2014



MANHATTAN — A Kansas State University biochemist is improving biofuels with a promising crop: 1xbet online sports betting sativa. The research may help boost rural economies and provide farmers with a value-added product.

1xbet online sports betting Durrett, assistant professor of 1xbet online games login and Molecular, is part of collaborative team that has received a four-year .5 million joint U.S. Department of Agriculture and Department of Energy grant. The project, led by Colorado State University, was one of 10 projects funded this year as part of the federal Plant Feedstocks Genomics for Bioenergy research program.

Durrett and collaborators are developing Camelina sativa as a biodiesel crop for the Great Plains. Camelina, a nonfood oilseed crop, can be a valuable biofuel crop because it can grow on poorer quality farmland and needs little irrigation and fertilizer. It also can be rotated with wheat, 1xbet online sports betting .

"Camelina could give farmers an extra biofuel crop that wouldn't be competing with food production," 1xbet online sports betting . "This research can add value to the local agricultural economy by creating an additional crop that could fit in with the crop rotation."

The research will take advantage of the recently sequenced camelina genome. For the project, 1xbet online sports betting is improving camelina's oil properties and by altering the plant's biochemistry to make it capable of producing low-viscosity oil.

Developing low-viscosity oil is crucial to improving biofuels, 1xbet online sports betting . Regular vegetable oil is too viscous for a diesel engine, so the engine either has to be modified or the vegetable oil has to be converted to biodiesel. Camelina could provide a drop-in fuel that could address this issue.

"By reducing the viscosity, we want to make a biofuel that can be used directly by a diesel engine without requiring any kind of chemical modification," 1xbet online sports betting . "We would be able to extract the oil directly and use it in a diesel engine right away."

Although low-viscosity oils are a valuable fuel source, they also are valuable for a variety of other industrial uses, such as plasticizers, biodegradable lubricants and food emulsifiers, 1xbet online sports betting .

The research also could create a value-added product for farmers. Modified oils have the potential to become more valuable than regular vegetable oil, 1xbet online sports betting .

"It is important to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, but the hope is that we also could help improve the rural economy by giving farmers a value-added product that they can produce directly," 1xbet online sports betting . "Rather than having a chemical company or a biofuel company take raw vegetable oil and modify it, the plant actually performs the chemistry and the farmers harvest that value-added product themselves."

John McCay, Colorado State University bioagricultural sciences associate professor, is leading the collaborative project, "Biofuels In The Arid West: Germplasm Development For Sustainable Production Of 1xbet online sports betting Oilseed." The work also involves researchers from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln and the University of California, Davis.

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Timothy 1xbet online sports betting , assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, is part of a collaborative team developing Camelina sativa as a biodiesel crop.

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A Kansas State University biochemist is improving biofuels with a promising crop: 1xbet online sports betting sativa. The research may help boost rural economies and provide farmers with a value-added product.

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– Timothy 1xbet online sports betting , assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics