{"id":14123,"date":"2006-06-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-01T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20060602-07n"},"modified":"2006-06-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-01T22:00:00","slug":"iowa-state-scientists-discover-mold-that-will-convert-corn-fiber-to-ethanol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/iowa-state-scientists-discover-mold-that-will-convert-corn-fiber-to-ethanol\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa State Scientists Discover Mold That Will Convert Corn Fiber to Ethanol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iastate.edu\/\" >Iowa State University<\/a> scientists have used mold to convert corn fiber into ethanol, suggesting corn milling byproducts might become another source of fuel.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Tony Pometto, a food science and human nutrition professor, said the mold successfully converted corn fiber that&#8217;s typically used for animal feed. The discovery could boost ethanol production by about 4 percent, or 160 million gallons a year, said Hans van Leeuwen, an Iowa State professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe this is a breakthrough,&#8221; said van Leeuwen, the leader of the research project. &#8220;But I also want to caution that we need to do a lot more research.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Van Leeuwen said the next step is to see how the process works on distillers&#8217; dried grains, a byproduct of the dry milling process that&#8217;s typically used to convert corn kernels into ethanol.<\/p>\n<p>The research project is supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture through the Iowa Biotechnology Byproducts Consortium, the Iowa Energy Center and the ethanol industry.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to van Leeuwen and Pometto, the research team includes Samir Khanal, an Iowa State research assistant professor, and Iowa State graduate students Mary Rasmussen and Prachand Shrestha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Iowa State University scientists have used mold to convert corn fiber into ethanol, suggesting corn milling byproducts might become another source of fuel.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Tony<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[],"class_list":["post-14123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14123"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=14123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}