An Autopia reader (who hails from my birthplace of Philadelphia) emailed us inquiring about the alternative fuel butanol. I posted an item on it last year, but since then BP has joined the ranks of ...
In a push to find better biofuels to reduce gasoline consumption and lower greenhouse-gas emissions, scientists have genetically engineered E. coli that is highly efficient in producing butanol, a ...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Ethanol might reign as the king of biofuels, but several companies are betting that a close cousin may overcome some of its shortcomings. Butanol has traditionally been used as ...
Rockville, MD., July 10, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global N-Butanol Market is forecasted to increase from a value of US$ 5.42 billion in 2024 to US$ 8.11 billion by the end of 2034. Fact.MR’s ...
SAE International Journal of Fuels and Lubricants, Vol. 5, No. 1 (January 2012), pp. 265-273 (9 pages) ABSTRACT Blending gasoline with oxygenates like ethanol, MTBE or ETBE has a proven potential to ...
University of California, Berkeley, chemists have engineered bacteria to churn out a gasoline-like biofuel at about 10 times the rate of competing microbes, a breakthrough that could soon provide an ...
"the only viable way to sell ethanol is for the government to mandate it be blended with gasoline -- much to the chagrin of us vintage-car enthusiasts." Ethanol fuel has had a tough row to hoe, and ...
HSINCHU, TAIWAN--(Marketwired - Oct 24, 2013) - ITRI (Industrial Technology Research Institute), Taiwan's largest and one of the world's leading high-tech applied research institutions, today ...