BP And DuPont Plan 'Biobutanol' BP, Europe's biggest oil company, is joining forces with chemical giant DuPont to develop, produce, and market a new generation of biofuels for the renewable fuels sector. The companies plan to bring ...
Celtic Renewables Proving That Whisky Can Actually Help You Drive Edinburgh-based start-up Celtic Renewables is turning waste matter from whisky production into a “next-generation biofuel” — biobutanol. The whisky distillation process is tremendously wasteful; only ...
E-Fuels and Green Gasoline: Beyond Today’s Dinosaur Juice The energy used in the fuel's production will also be green. Such fuels will almost certainly cost way more than today's dinosaur juice, and it may be harder to find than gasoline is now, but it'll be ...
How Biobutanol Can Be Used as a Motor Fuel Christine and Scott Gable are hybrid auto and alternative fuel experts who have brewed their own biodiesel and traveled 125,000 miles on waste vegetable oil. Biobutanol is four-carbon alcohol derived ...
Scotland fuels car with biobutanol derived from whiskey production Electric cars may receive most of the attention within the realm of alternative propulsion methods, but liquid hydrocarbon fuels will be with us for many decades to come. The challenge then becomes ...
Biobutanol firm to shift to ethanol in short-term SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A next-generation biofuels company says it’s suspending plans to produce isobutanol from corn at its Minnesota plant and will instead make ethanol in the near term while it ...
Corn's second act: biobutanol There is more corn grown in the United States used for ethanol fuel production than for livestock feed. Yet, ethanol arguably has a demand constraint: the so-called "blend wall," and government ...
U.S. Navy To Test Jet Fuel From Biobutanol The U.S. Navy plans to test renewable jet fuel derived from butanol produced from biomass. The biobutanol is being produced by Cobalt Technologies, which has partnered with chemicals company Albemarle ...