Feb
19
Progress For Drop In Bio Fuel Gasoline Replacements
February 19, 2013 | 2 Comments
Renewable alternatives to gasoline like heavy alcohols such as isobutanol are promising candidates that are getting closer to your gas tank. The heavier alcohols have more carbon atoms than ethanol with two and methanol with just one. They contain more energy than ethanol, but they are also more compatible with the existing gasoline-based infrastructure. The […]
Aug
16
New Tool Doubles Production of Butanol and Cuts Costs
August 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment
A new discovery at the University of Illinois should make the alternative fuel butanol more attractive to the biofuel industry. Scientist Hao Feng has found a way to significantly reduce the cost of the energy involved and a way around a bottleneck that has frustrated producers in the past. Feng explains, “The first challenge in […]
Jul
19
Butanol Gets a Commercial Start
July 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC, the joint venture research effort of British Petroleum and DuPont has set up an “Early Adopters Group” (EAG). Four more ethanol producers have joined the EAG bringing the total number of ethanol plants that have indicated interest in the company’s biobutanol technology to seven. Butamax CEO Paul Beckwith said in a […]
Mar
30
UCLA Researchers Use Electricity and CO2 to Make Butanol
March 30, 2012 | 7 Comments
A research team at UCLA’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has for the first time demonstrated a method for converting carbon dioxide into the liquid fuel isobutanol using electricity. The study paper is published today, March 30 2012, in the journal Science. The study explains how James Liao, UCLA’s Ralph M. Parsons […]
Dec
20
A New and Efficient Wood to Butanol Process
December 20, 2011 | 4 Comments
Professor Aadrian van Heiningen and Tom Granström with a team of scientists at Aalto University in Finland and associated with the University of Maine in the U.S. have developed a process to make fuel grade butanol and other industrial chemicals from wood biomass. Butanol is particularly suitable as a transport fuel because it is not […]
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