Dec
11
Breakthrough Bacteria That Makes Butanol From CO2
December 11, 2009 | 2 Comments
UCLA researchers at the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have genetically modified a cyanobacterium to consume carbon dioxide in a set of steps to produce the liquid fuel isobutanol. Isobutanol is a form of the alcohol butanol, a favorite for many in a transition away from fossil fuels as butanol based products [...]
Oct
8
Here Comes Bio Butanol at Commercial Scale
October 8, 2009 | 5 Comments
Gevo, Inc. has announced the start up of the first bio butanol demonstration plant. The new facility is designed from retrofitting an existing demonstration scale ethanol plant to produce the bio butanol. In successfully producing bio butanol at the one million gallon per year rate at a pilot plant in St. Joseph, Missouri, Gevo is [...]
Aug
24
A Butanol Breakthrough
August 24, 2009 | 2 Comments
Shang-Tian Yang, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Ohio State University announced last week at the American Chemical Society meeting that he has engineered a mutant bacterium that doubles his butanol process output.
Readers will recall that butanol is a near direct replacement for gasoline with nearly the same energy density and burning properties. [...]
Jan
13
One More Big Step For Bio Butanol
January 13, 2009 | 2 Comments
Many visits and email come looking for bio butanol information and in fact those efforts are justified. Butanol could be a one for one substitute for gasoline and could even be an extender or additive for diesel fuel. It’s a better panacea, if you’ll pardon term than ethanol, as it’s just a better fuel for [...]
