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Major stimulus grants went to alternative energy research |
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The Chicago
Business website reports that two of the biggest local grants awarded
last year under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act went to
projects involving alternative energy research.
A $24.8-million
grant from the U.S. Department of Energy went to Archer Daniels Midland
Co. (ADM) to develop a facility in Decatur, Illinois designed to
convert biomass into renewable fuels and an ethyl acrylate used in
plastics, adhesives and coatings. The biomass to be used is stalks,
cobs and leaves left over after corn is harvested.The project is slated
to begin this year and be completed by 2012.
A $25-million DOE
grant to study techniques for converting the woody biomass from forests
into gasoline went to a Danish company called Haldor Topsoe Inc.. The
work will be done under contract by the non-profit Gas Technology
Institute in Des Plaines. The goal of the project is to convert 20 tons
of woody material each day into clean gas. An estimated 15 scientists
will be employed on the project.
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