Deidra Campbell
11/20/2009
2:25pm
From an environmental standpoint excess biomass from the production of flax shives, and generated from Brassica carinata, a yellow flowered plant, can be used to to produce bioethanol. If bioethanol is produced from these two types of biomass both CO2 emissions and fossil fuel consunption will be reduced will be reduced. These works have analysed the environmental load associated with the different stages of the process: the harvesting of flax or Brassica; the production of ethanol (through enzymatic hydrolysis followed by fermentation and distillation); mixing it with petrol (in varying proportions); and its use in passenger automobiles. The results of both studies show that the use of ethanol-based fuels can help to mitigate climate change (by reducing greenhouse gases). The biofuel produced from these two plants is "second generation bioethanol," which is obtained from forest or agricultural residues, or from herbaceous crops, and does not enter into direct competition with agricultural crops intended for animal or human consumption.
I believe this is a great alternative to reduce greenshouse gases. Here we see another step into alternatives that could be made into fuels that are less dependent on oil, mainly foreign oil. This is a great step to the alternative to claiming independence.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091120094745.htm
1 comment:
Thanks for sharing the information on producing Bioethanol with Flax and Yellow flowers. I was unaware of it that flowers can be used to produced Bioethanol.
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