Sentences with word «biobutanol»

DuPont says it has already succeeded at extracting sugar from corn and converting it into biobutanol in the lab, but it has yet to scale up the operation.

So say researchers at E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., which alongside Seattle - based Bio Architecture Lab (BAL) has secured $ 9 million from the Department of Energy to explore seaweed's potential as a feedstock for biobutanol, an advanced biofuel.

The company plans to work with genetic engineers at DuPont to further perfect the microbe — programming it to produce biobutanol.

The key to unleashing seaweed's biobutanol potential is in a BAL - designed microbe that lives entirely off of seaweed as a carbon source, the company says.

The hemicellulose sugars of barley straw can be effectively fermented into biobutanol, when starch is added during the pre-treatment or fermentation process, shows a new University of Eastern Finland study.

The technology can also depict alternative fuels like ethanol and biobutanol, paving the way for greener internal combustion engines in years to come.

The other piece of the puzzle is that biobutanol is really an experimental biofuel itself.

Parekh says his company, which is in charge of growing seaweed for its biobutanol project, is interested in farming the seaweed because it is more environmentally sustainable.

There is much research going on for emerging fuels that are currently in development, such as biogas, biobutanol, methanol, hydrogenation - derived renewable diesel and xTL fuels.