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19 September 2017 – The Plants Engineered to Replace Oil in Sugarcane and Sweet Sorghum (PETROSS) project at the University of Illinois and funded by the Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program has developed lipidcane, which is sugarcane that produces oil instead of sugar. The oil from the lipidcane can be converted directly via hydroprocessing of esters and fatty acids (HEFA), and therefore more efficiently by eliminating the need to convert the sugars to ethanol before then converting the ethanol to alternative jet fuel. By replacing the sugars in sugarcane with oil and eliminating the extra step makes it possible to reduce the cost of the feedstock. The research found that lipidcane with 5% oil produces four times more jet fuel (416 gallons) per hectare than soybeans.
Go here to read more about the study.
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