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15.11.2014
Closing In on Butanol for Biofuel
Butanol is the go-to industrial solvent for products such as lacquers and enamels, but it might also play a substantial role in the production of renewable fuels.
Bio-renewable Chemicals | Butanol | Biofuels
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At the ARS Bioenergy Research Unit in Peoria, Illinois, chemical engineer Nasib Qureshi observes and controls a fermentor in which butanol is produced from corn stover and recovered simultaneously with a vacuum.

Butanol is the go-to industrial solvent for products such as lacquers and enamels, but it might also play a substantial role in the production of renewable fuels. Gallon for gallon, it has 30 percent more energy than ethanol and only around 4 percent less energy than a gallon of petroleum-based gasoline.

DalinYebo‘s insight:

Great alternative for our biorefineries (see ift.co.za/n-BioRefinery)

Source: www.ars.usda.gov

See on Scoop.it – Biorenewable Chemicals & Plastics

Filed under: Topics of Interest Tagged: bio-renewable Chemicals, Biofuels, Butanol
from: dalinyebo.wordpress.com

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