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 ...

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NEW YORK, Jan. 13, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- IndexBox's recent report on the global butanol market highlights the following key points. The global butanol market is expected to rise from $11.6B in 2022 ...

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 ...

Scientists have reported a discovery that could speed an emerging effort to replace ethanol in gasoline with a substantially better fuel additive called butanol, which some experts regard as “the ...

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 ...

Butanol is a renewable biofuel that is set to debut at US pumps next year, and hopes to challenge ethanol’s dominance of the $26 billion market. Just as with ethanol it can be produced from corn or ...

Butanol may be used as a fuel in an internal combustion engine. Because its longer hydrocarbon chain causes it to be fairly non-polar, it is more similar to gasoline than it is to ethanol. Butanol has ...

The impression I came away with after reading about the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL) efforts to convert biomass to ethanol is that James McMillan's "vision" is not keen enough to ...

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 ...