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UW-Madison Engineers Produce Higher-Energy Liquid Transportation Fuel From Sugar 
Green Car Congress | by Mike Millikin | Wed, Jun 20
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Engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a two-stage process for converting biomass-derived sugar into 2,5-dimethylfuran (DMF), a liquid transportation fuel with 40% greater energy density than ethanol.
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