Sweet sorghum: a new sustainable biofuel from ARS

Sweet sorghum: a new sustainable biofuel from ARS

February 16, 2022

Researchers from the Agricultural Research Service and Ohio State University have invented a procedure for making renewable fuel from sweet sorghum bagasse, the pulp remains from stalks of this hardy type of grass. Bio-butanol provides 33 percent more energy per gallon than gasoline and can be catalytically upgraded to bio-jet fuel.

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