{"id":281583,"date":"2019-07-11T05:56:32","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T05:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=281583"},"modified":"2019-07-11T06:08:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T06:08:15","slug":"us-team-develops-process-to-turn-biomethanol-into-premium-fuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-team-develops-process-to-turn-biomethanol-into-premium-fuels\/","title":{"rendered":"US team develops process to turn biomethanol into premium fuels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global efforts to develop climate-friendly fuels received a boost on Monday with a team of researchers from a United States lab finding a cost-effective way to convert biofuels derived from plants into premium fuels such as high octane petrol and aviation fuel.<\/p>\n<p>In a study published in Nature Catalysis journal , researchers from National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in the US said that they have devised a cheaper method to produce high-quality hydrocarbon fuels like high-octane petrol from biofuels.<\/p>\n<p>Though replacing petroleum-based fuels with cleaner biofuels is the way forward, there are a number of challenges in converting biomethanol into premium fuels. The technologies that exist today rely on multi-step processes and high temperatures, which drive up the cost. Moreover, they produce lower-grade fuel, that too in very small quantities to be competitive enough to challenge the dominance of fossil fuels, which are implicated in global warming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global efforts to develop climate-friendly fuels received a boost on Monday with a team of researchers from a United States lab finding a cost-effective way to convert biofuels derived from plants into premium fuels such as high octane petrol and aviation fuel. In a study published in Nature Catalysis journal , researchers from National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in the US said that they have devised a cheaper method to produce high-quality hydrocarbon fuels like high-octane petrol from biofuels. Though replacing petroleum-based fuels with cleaner biofuels is the way forward, there are a number of challenges in converting biomethanol into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}