Researchers Propose Solar-Driven Biomass Gasification Pathway for Synthetic Fuel Production

A new process for producing synfuel from biomass using concentrating solar energy as its main energy source. The concept’s key feature is the use of high-temperature heat from a solar concentrating tower to drive the chemical process of converting biomass to a biofuel, obtaining a near-complete utilization of carbon atoms in the biomass. The solar-driven third generation biofuel requires only...