article_snippet.sent: ’s previously only been possible to convert between 30 and 60 per cent of plant sugar into hydrogen, by using industrial catalysts or fermenting techniques, The Independent reported.
article_snippet.sent: Two scientists developed a process to make more efficient fuel by mixing biomass with a special solution comprising 10 enzymes that turn plant sugars into hydrogen and carbon dioxide.
article_snippet.sent: 10 enzymes that turn plant sugars into hydrogen and carbon dioxide were created in microbial fermenters using genetically engineered bacteria, which were then added to the plant waste and left for several weeks –
article_snippet.sent: although 10 enzymes that turn plant sugars into hydrogen and carbon dioxide would be left for far longer if the fuel was produced on a large scale.
article_snippet.sent: a process to make more efficient fuel by mixing biomass with a special solution comprising 10 enzymes that turn plant sugars into hydrogen and carbon dioxide builds on previous research using xylose,
article_snippet.sent: ‘the most abundant simple plant pentose sugar, to produce hydrogen yields that previously were attainable only in theory,’ according to the study.
article_snippet.sent: former doctoral student Joe Rollin found that the process of breaking down corn husks and stalks into hydrogen and carbon dioxide can use both sugars glucose and xylose at the same time - not one after the other.
highlights_snippet.sent: It's previously only been possible to convert 60% of sugars into hydrogen .
  