Harvesting Wheat for Bio-Based Chemicals?

In the OPTISOCHEM project scientist are looking to turn the abundance of wheat straw into a more useful gas called bio-isobutene.

Researchers are looking at leftover straw from the large amounts of wheat that is currently left unused on European farms to use in the development of greener biochemical. In the OPTISOCHEM project, funded by the EU’s Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking Program, scientist are looking to turn the abundance of wheat straw into a more useful gas called bio-isobutene.

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