WSU researcher obtains $450,000 grant to boost biofuels

Plantations International Information A scientist at Washington State College (WSU) has obtained a three-year $ 450,000 (appr. EUR395,000) federal grant to establish computer designs for using iron to more successfully fine-tune bio-oils as well as make much better biofuels. Jean-Sabin McEwen, assistant teacher in the Voiland School of Chemical Design as well as Bioengineering, will certainly team up on the United States Department of Energy Office of Basic Energy Sciences grant with associates at Pacific Northwest National Lab as well as the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. The use of biofuels is limited as a result of the high oxygen [...]