DuPont, Wilmington, Del., and the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) announced a joint research agreement leading toward the development of the world's first integrated "bio-refinery" that uses corn or other renewable resources--rather than traditional petrochemicals--to produce a host of valuable fuels and value-added chemicals.DuPont, Wilmington, Del., and the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), located in Golden, Colorado, as part of the U.S. Department of Energy, is the United States' primary laboratory for renewable energy and energy efficiency research and development. (NREL NREL National Renewable Energy Laboratory NREL Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory (Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO) ) announced a joint research agreement leading toward the development of the world's first integrated "bio-refinery" that uses corn or other renewable resources--rather than traditional petrochemicals--to produce a host of valuable fuels and valueadded chemicals. The $7.7 million Cooperative Research and Development Agreement “CRADA” redirects here. For other uses, see CRADA (disambiguation). A Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) is an agreement between a government agency and a private company to work together. calls for DuPont and the NREL to collaboratively develop, build, and test a bio-refinery pilot process that will make fuels and chemicals from the entire corn plant--including the fibrous material in the stalks, husks, leaves, and the starchy starch·y adj. starch·i·er, starch·i·est 1. a. Containing starch. b. Stiffened with starch. 2. Of or resembling starch. 3. material in the kernels. |
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