{"id":470607,"date":"2022-02-24T10:02:11","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T04:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=470607"},"modified":"2022-02-24T10:37:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T05:07:16","slug":"iit-mandi-team-uses-orange-peel-hydrochar-for-biofuel-precursors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iit-mandi-team-uses-orange-peel-hydrochar-for-biofuel-precursors\/","title":{"rendered":"IIT Mandi team uses orange peel hydrochar for biofuel precursors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Mandi have used hydrochar derived from orange peels to speed up the conversion of biomass-derived chemicals into biofuel precursors, which will likely help overcome the &#8220;socio-political instabilities associated with dwindling petroleum reserves&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>The development of such catalysts for biomass conversion bodes well for the biofuel sector in the country. Already a pioneer in biomass-based power, in 2015, India had announced its goal to achieve 15 GW of power from biomass, small hydropower and waste-to-energy plants.  <\/p>\n<p>Within five years, the country has already achieved the 10 GW target of biomass power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Mandi have used hydrochar derived from orange peels to speed up the conversion of biomass-derived chemicals into biofuel precursors, which will likely help overcome the &#8220;socio-political instabilities associated with dwindling petroleum reserves&#8221;. The development of such catalysts for biomass conversion bodes well for the biofuel sector in the country. Already a pioneer in biomass-based power, in 2015, India had announced its goal to achieve 15 GW of power from biomass, small hydropower and waste-to-energy plants. Within five years, the country has already achieved the 10 GW target of biomass power.<\/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":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470607","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=470607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}