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Written by Sabrina Deparine
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Wednesday, 03 March 2010 10:42 |
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Heeding President Obama’s call to use biofuels and other clean coal technologies, two companies are now in the race to develop measures on how they can turn government paper wastes to fuel.
Novozymes of Denmark and Fiberight from Maryland have recently presented demonstration drives around Washington to showcase the feasibility and performance of “trashanol”. The two companies used the said alternative fuel to power a flex-fuel Chevy HHR and a flex-fuel Ford F150. Novozymes and Fiberight collaborated on the development of the technologies and procedures that will turn thousands of pages of government documents to biofuel.
 For its part, Fiberight collected office wastes and pulps which were then treated and washed. The resulting material is treated with enzymes from Novozymes. The enzymes transformed the cellulose in the fluffy material to sugars that are then fermented to ethanol. The ethanol is blended with regular gasoline to produce ethanol-blended gasoline.
According to Adam Monroe, Novozyme President, the company is prepared to face the demands for biofuels on a commercial scale. In fact, Novozymes received research grants from the Department of Energy twice which they used to develop the technology and means to reduce the costs of enzyme production as well as to enhance the efficiency of these enzymes in converting cellulose to biofuels.
Fiberight, on the other hand, vouched for the sustainability of trashanol. They had cited that Americans can generate enough paper wastes to produce as much as eight billion gallons of trashanol per year. A typical American household, for instance, can produce enough paper wastes a year to produce enough trashanol to run 8,000 miles.
According to research and test result, trashanol has the capability to reduce carbon emissions by 90% as compared to regular gasoline.
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