ISU teams receive grants to research biofuels
The Iowa Energy Center has awarded three Iowa State University research teams a total of $938,000 in grants to support their work to find better ways to produce biofuels and chemicals.
The teams are all associated with Iowa State’s Bioeconomy Institute.
A team led by Song-Charng Kong, associate professor of mechanical engineering, was awarded $468,000 to research how to make fuel through bio-oil gasification. Another team, led by Laura Jarboe, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering, was awarded $315,000 to help them use pyrolysis to convert biomass into fuel. The final team was awarded $200,000 to help them research a process to convert biochar to activated carbon for use in purifying fuel.
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