Bourbon is a multi-billion-dollar market, but the American barrel-aged whiskey also produces a lot of wasted grain at distilleries. Chemists at the University of Kentucky developed a method to ...

The state of Kentucky produces 95% of the world's bourbon, and all that bourbon leaves behind an enormous amount of waste grain, called stillage. Now, researchers at the University of Kentucky have ...

Hydrothermal carbonization of lignocellulosic biomass—the most abundant renewable feedstock—is a promising method for the production of carbon materials with negative carbon emissions. This method has ...

A comprehensive review article published in the Journal of Bioresources and Bioproducts presents an in-depth analysis of hydrothermal technology's role in converting biomass and plastic waste into ...

Stillage is being turned into electrodes in Kentucky, US. Kentucky’s bourbon whiskey boom leaves behind ...

Researchers at ACS conference unveil how they repurposed a bourbon byproduct into green, high-performance supercapacitors ...

PHOENIXVILLE — Phoenixville officials recently announced plans to install the first hydrothermal carbonization system at a municipal wastewater treatment plant in all of North America. The new ...

Before that beautiful salmon filet lands on your plate, a lot of less appetizing stuff gets stripped away: By one estimate, the global seafood industry produces 64 million metric tons of waste each ...

A Virginia, United States-based clean technology startup is applying its unique hydrothermal processing technology to treat previously hard-to-recycle textiles made out of blends of polyester and ...