At the ARS Bioenergy Research Unit in Peoria, Illinois, chemical engineer Nasib Qureshi observes and controls a fermentor in which butanol is produced from corn stover and recovered simultaneously with a vacuum.
Butanol is the go-to industrial solvent for products such as lacquers and enamels, but it might also play a substantial role in the production of renewable fuels. Gallon for gallon, it has 30 percent more energy than ethanol and only around 4 percent less energy than a gallon of petroleum-based gasoline.
DalinYebo‘s insight:
Great alternative for our biorefineries (see dalinyebo.com/n-BioRefinery)
Source: www.ars.usda.gov
Source: https://dalinyebo.wordpress.com/2014/11/15/ars-news-events/