Serious digestion. Microorganisms for the World's Fastest Digestion Plant fiber includes several different types of sugars linked together in recalcitrant chains and bound to other compounds that inhibit digestion. It is difficult to digest. Thats why most plant fiber is not currently used as a sour...

Biomass Biomass is any kind of material made from a recently-living organism. It is comprised of sugars, starch, proteins, acids, as well as less readily degraded forms of cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin, and pectin. Cellulosic biomass comprises cellulose and other forms of biomass. Cellulose is ma...

Methane Methane is comprised of one carbon and four hydrogen molecules. It is the main fuel in natural gas. Most bio-methane is currently produced from animal manures through anaerobic digestion. The microorganisms in the animal feces digest the biomass and convert it to methane. Although natural ga...

Not Frequently Enough Asked Questions How much biomass is there to convert into fuels and bio-products? The Department of Energy estimated that the US could produce a billion tons of biomass per year. If we convert all of it into ethanol at 130 gallons per ton, subtracting the energy to distill the ...

Methods to Produce Cellulosic Ethanol There is very little ethanol produced at a commercial scale from plant fiber at this time, but there are plans to build facilities in a few locations around the country in the next few years. There are three types of processes being considered for the production...