AMES, Iowa – Lysle Whitmer, giving a quick tour of the technical upgrades to an Iowa State University biofuels pilot plant, pointed to a long series of stainless steel pipes and cylinders. They’re ...

Rapidly heating plant dry matter using fast pyrolysis is the cheapest and fastest method for producing bio-fuels and renewable industrial chemicals, according to Rui Xiao, who leads a team at ...

ASHLEY, Indiana—The bales, bundles and bins of plastic waste are stacked 10 feet high in a shiny new warehouse that rises from a grassy field near a town known for its bright yellow smiley-face water ...