While ethanol is today's major biofuel, researchers aim to produce fuels more like gasoline. Butanol is the primary candidate, now produced primarily by Clostridium bacteria. Chemists have now ...

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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 ...

As affordable petroleum becomes scarcer, it’s easy to imagine switching to electric cars or outfitting hydrogen-powered ships with supplementary sails. But it’s harder to picture what we might run ...

Chemical engineers have developed a method for converting common algae into butanol, a renewable fuel that can be used in existing combustible engines. The green technology benefits from and adds ...

Ethanol derived from corn and sugarcane has been a blessing as an additive to transportation fuels, helping to limit pollution and stretch petroleum supplies. One drawback, however, is that the ...

"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." Butanol is a stretch-limo version of ethanol, ...