{"id":146424,"date":"2014-02-08T17:11:19","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T19:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=146424"},"modified":"2014-04-08T17:14:57","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T20:14:57","slug":"fuel-seawater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/fuel-seawater\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel from seawater"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_146425\" style=\"max-width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-146425\" alt=\"Salicornia bigelovii: leafless plant has seeds useful for biodiesel production \" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Tecno_planta.jpg\" width=\"290\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Tecno_planta.jpg 290w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Tecno_planta-120x91.jpg 120w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Tecno_planta-250x190.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">sbrc<\/span><em>Salicornia bigelovii<\/em>: leafless plant has seeds useful for biodiesel production<span class=\"media-credits\">sbrc<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>A plant that tolerates high levels of salt in the soil and can even be irrigated with seawater is at the center of research related to aviation biofuel production in a project undertaken jointly by the US aircraft manufacturer Boeing and institutions in the United Arab Emirates.\u00a0 The idea is to produce aviation biokerosene in the arid soils of this Middle Eastern country, using\u00a0 seeds and ethanol from biomass sugars of <i>Salicornia bigelovii<\/i>, a leafless plant originally from the United States and the Caribbean.\u00a0 The research is being carried out by the Sustainable Bioenergy Research Consortium (SBRC), which includes both Boeing and the airline Etihad Airways, the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in the UAE, and the US technology company Honeywell.\u00a0 In addition to producing plant seedlings, the Masdar researchers reported in the journal <i>Bioresource Technology<\/i> (February, 2014) that dry salicornia has good potential for producing second generation ethanol through an enzymatic hydrolysis process that extracts sugars from the plant.\u00a0 It has characteristics similar to other crops used for biofuel, such as corn stover, wheat, sugarcane and other grasses.\u00a0 The only problem is the need to use fresh water to remove the accumulated salt before processing the plant into biofuel.\u00a0 In 2015, the researchers will build an ecosystem in the sandy soil of the Emirates.\u00a0 The seawater used for raising fish and shrimp will irrigate a Salicornia plantation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plant is studied for aviation biofuel production","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[207],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-146424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technoscience","tag-bioenergy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146424"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=146424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}