Foster Agblevor, associate professor of biological systems engineering, is leading the team of researchers in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (www.cals.vt.edu) at Virginia Tech ...

Hydrogen production via thermochemical cycles represents a forefront area in sustainable energy research, employing high-temperature chemical reactions to split water into hydrogen and oxygen without ...

Biochar is a carbon-rich material that is made from biomass through a thermochemical conversion process known as pyrolysis. Don’t worry if that all sounds like a mouthful—read on for an introduction ...

Researchers have developed a novel technology that produces liquid hydrocarbon fuels exclusively from sunlight and air. For the first time worldwide they demonstrate the entire thermochemical process ...

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed what they claim is a fast, reliable, environmentally flexible, commercially viable way of creating nanoscale structures. The technique ...

Despite controversies, hydrogen can be a great fossil fuel replacement and also a means of energy storage and transport. But extracting hydrogen is an energy-intensive process and most of the time not ...

Researchers in China have designed a two-stage, solar-assisted thermochemical heat pump system that uses caustic soda and water as a working pair. The system is reportedly able to achieve an energy ...

Among the lemon trees and mountains of southern Italy, the start-up company GFBiochemicals has developed a process that, it claims, slashes the cost of making levulinic acid, a five-carbon building ...