May
7
Major Advance In Producing Bio Butanol
May 7, 2020 | Leave a Comment
An Oregon State University led international research collaboration has taken an important step toward the commercially viable manufacture of biobutanol, an alcohol whose strong potential as a fuel for gasoline-powered engines could pave the path away from fossil fuels. The key breakthrough is the development of a new metal organic framework, or MOF, that can […]
Aug
8
New Butanol Producing Organisms Announced
August 8, 2019 | Leave a Comment
Uppsala University researchers have successfully produced microorganisms that can efficiently produce the alcohol butanol using carbon dioxide and solar energy. The researchers press release is optimistic that we will be able to replace fossil fuels with a carbon-neutral product created from solar energy, carbon dioxide and water. The researchers have published their study in the […]
Aug
18
Butanol Microbe Boosts Production by 10 Fold
August 18, 2015 | Leave a Comment
BioEnergy Science Center (BESC) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have crashed through another barrier to commercially viable biofuels with the engineering of a microbe that improves isobutanol yields by a factor of 10. The group’s work builds on results from 2011 in which researchers reported on the first genetically engineered microbe to produce […]
Aug
23
Combined Fungus and Bacteria Process Makes Biofuel
August 23, 2013 | 4 Comments
A University of Michigan research team has joined the forces of a fungus and E. coli bacteria to turn tough waste plant material into isobutanol, a biofuel that closely matches gasoline’s properties in a combined species process. The research team members said the principle also could be used to produce other valuable chemicals such as […]
Apr
15
A New way to Upgrade Ethanol to Butanol
April 15, 2013 | 1 Comment
Duncan Wass explained a discovery that could speed an emerging effort to replace ethanol in gasoline with the substantially better biofuel additive called butanol at the 245th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society. In view of some experts regarding butanol as “the gasoline of the future” the report on this discovery holds […]
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