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U of I gets grant for biomass virtual database

A five-thousand-dollar grant from British Petroleum to study the engineering properties of biomass has been awarded to five students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The students are working on a virtual database to tell end users the properties of different energy crop types – from sorghum to Miscanthus, to switchgrass. Their various values for energy production will be part of the equation.

Professor Luis Rodriguez with U of I’s Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering is working closely with the students on the project. He says not much is known about harvesting, transporting or storing biomass and the students’ project will help determine how efficiently it can be processed.

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