Feb
10
Scientists Develop a Cheaper Method to Make Biofuels
February 10, 2021 | 1 Comment
Ohio State University scientists have figured out a cheaper, more efficient way to conduct a chemical reaction at the heart of many biological processes, which may lead to better ways to create biofuels from plants. Scientists around the world have been trying for years to create biofuels and other bioproducts more cheaply. The Ohio State […]
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 […]
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 […]
Nov
8
Diesel Fuel From a New Life for an Old Fermentation Process
November 8, 2012 | 4 Comments
UC Berkeley scientists have rediscovered a long-abandoned fermentation process once used to turn starch into explosives can be used to produce renewable diesel fuel. Berkeley chemists and chemical engineers joined skills to produce diesel fuel from the products of the abandoned bacterial fermentation discovered nearly 100 years ago by the first president of Israel, chemist […]
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