A farm by-product that usually goes to waste in China could be the fuel of the future, helping to cut greenhouse gas emissions throughout the country, according to research by US-based scientists.

DuPont, the Delaware-based chemical and seed giant, is opening the cellulosic plant that will begin production next year, using corncobs, husks and stalks to make ethanol fuel for U.S. cars and ...

The research team, led by Professor Nurxat Nuraje, converted rice husks and corncobs into medical substances used to create prazosin and furosemide; medications already established in the treatment of ...

“Crushed corncobs are very absorbent, and can dry out a can of paint in as little as 30 minutes,” said Victoria Weidel, SWALCO public information officer. “After equal parts of paint and ...

First, Suppes will create carbon briquettes with high surface areas from corncobs in a special multi-step process. The high surface area, where one gram of carbon has an area comparable to a ...

Corncobs are from plants that consumed carbon dioxide as they grew, and the gasification process needed to make the ammonia leaves behind a black residue, called biochar, that can be added back to ...

Meanwhile, out in Iowa, a San Francisco-based startup is seeking to turn corncobs into a key ingredient for fertilizer that's now almost exclusively made from natural gas – anhydrous ammonia.

Then, in order for us to prepare activated carbon and biochars, we use a chemical procedure.” On the effectiveness of carbonized corncobs “We found that the activated carbon that we produced [from ...

By Marni Jameson | The Denver Post PUBLISHED: May 31, 2006 at 5:06 PM MDT ...

Enjoying the natural beauty, we smelt roasting corncobs so we’d them,” Kamran Zia, a tourist from Faisalabad, said. He said cool chilly weather was the best time to eat roasted corncob.