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Denmark looks to turn a common seaweed into biofuel
Energinet.dk puts DKK 8.5m of funding into a project designed to assess the potential of producing bioethanol from sea lettuce.
January 15, 2008
The professional journal Ingeniøren (The Engineer)
The purpose of this slightly unusual project is to examine whether the vision can be realised in practical terms, and hang together in terms of commercial production economics. Denmark's Risø National Laboratory will be involved in testing the bioethanol process perspectives, while leading Danish energy company Dong Energy will put a pilot plant for sea lettuce cultivation on the site of one its CHP stations, after the pathfinder phase of laboratory studies has been completed.
Read more (in English): http://www.denmark.dk/en/servicemenu/News/Environment-Energy-Climate-News/DenmarkLooksToTurnACommonSeaweedIntoBiofuel.htm
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