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[ [GE and the University of Illinois] [♫Music♫]]
[[Partnering for Advanced Agribusiness Solutions]]
[There is a lot going on in bio-energy.]
[There are a lot of neat things that are being developed,]
[and we have to pull all of these things together,]
[and bring all the minds from different areas,]
[in order to successfully commercialize these technologies]
[to take them all the way to commercialization, ]
[and that's why we created this capability on campus.]
[[Vijay Singh, PhD, Associate Director for Engineering, University of IL] So all of the]
[equipment here is just a miniaturized version of what is actually used in the plant,]
[so this not like when you do the work on bench scale,]
[you're using blenders and things like that that don't simulate exactly]
[what happens in the processing plant.]
[But this equipment here simulates exactly what goes on in the big processing plants.]
[This is the place where you take a kernal of corn, and you break it into different components]
[that then go into different things like feed, like corn starch, like ethanol.]
[[Yuanhui Zhang, Professor in Engineering] Initially we just use a swine manure as a feedstock]
[and we work it through the hydrothermal liquifaction and work it into the crude oil like this]
[and then we can refine from this crude oil and into diesel-like transportation fuels like this.]
[The remaining, most of this heavy stuff,]
[could be used in like asphalt, or crude oil.]
[Crude oil is not only just for fuel.]
[Like 90% of our daily product now is petroleum]
[So could be used as a material and new resources.]
[And this new resources could be regenerated through the waste products]
