One limitation of producing biofuel is that the alcohol created by fermentation is toxic to the microbes that produce it. Now ...

The Edinburgh Napier Bio-fuel research team focused on the £4 billion whisky industry as a ripe resource for developing bio-butanol – the next generation of bio-fuel which gives 30% more output ...

But since ethanol is an oxygenated fuel, its use results ... Butanol is the go-to industrial solvent for products such as lacquers and enamels, but it might also play a substantial role in the ...

Research reveals how butanol toxicity affects microbial fermentation, offering insights to enhance biofuel production efficiency and economic outcomes.

Holliday's so-called "Detroit Project" would challenge American automakers to introduce a new "Car of the Future" that would achieve 75 miles per gallon and run on butanol – an alcohol fuel that ...

The results of this study have been published in Fuel. The work developed at the ... the different biofuels studied—bioalcohols such as butanol, pentanol and cyclopentanol, as well as bioketones ...