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BOULDER — A University of Colorado lab was awarded a $1 million federal grant announced Wednesday to create a system for turning vegetation into hydrogen or liquid fuel through concentrated sunlight.
A team led by professor Alan Wei mer of the Boulder school’s chemical and biological engineering department will heat biomass like grass, cornstalks and leaves, wood waste and algae to more than 2,000 degrees to produce an intermediate “syngas” — a mixture of carbon oxides and hydrogen.
The grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Department of Energy was part of an award package of $18.4 million for 21 biomass research and demonstration projects.
