Biobutanol - News, Trends, Biobutanol Links
Biobutanol's advantages
On Bio Butanol, it certainly got my interest up and I am still studying it like mad! It has all the right requirements to me, being high up the Hydrogen/Carbon balance ladder, that is to say, mostly hydrogen, and shows signs of being economical to produce, and able to make use of much infrastructure as it exists.
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BP, DuPont in Biobutanol venture
In 2006, BP announced a big JV with DuPont, to produce commercial quantities of biobutanol - something that can be blended into the gasoline infrastructure more easily than can be ethanol
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Biobutanol without the downsides
BioButanol has previously been manufactured in an anerobic batch process, that process has had a down side of also producing acetone and ethanol as well as butanol. David Ramey has invented a method to continuously produce butanol in a closed system, which extracts the butanol as it is produced, leaving the process intact, which allows the continued production, without the burdens placed on the manufacturing plant due to batch processing. - Read More
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14 lbs of sugar to make 1 gal butanol
It takes 14 pounds of sugar from whatever source to make a gallon of butanol. If the source is sugar cane, sugar beets, grasses, weeds such as kudzu, kiwi fruit, whatever, if sugar can be extracted it can be used as feedstock for the making of alcohols. - Read More
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Interesting data on biobutanol
Good data on biobutanol; also gives a comparison of biobutanol and ethanol with regard to its properties - Read More
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Biobutanol Plans in Korea and India
A biotechnology firm working on cellulosic biobutanol (earlier post) has signed an agreement with Laxmi Organic Industries to develop and construct a commercial scale demonstrator for biobutanol in India - Read More
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Green Biologics gets funded to make biobutanol in India
(Sep 2008) Green Biologics is looking to raise £3.5 million ($6.33 million) to commercialize its biofuels technology. The British company signed a contract with Oaxmi Organic Industries in India to build a demonstration plant, also in India, that makes biobutanol from molasses. The companies expect the plant to begin making 1,000 metric tons of butanol beginning in 2010. - Read More
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