Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Biobutanol Creeps Toward the Market
A type of fuel once used in Japanese aircraft during World War II is slowly making its way again toward the market, and its backers say that it will work better in automobiles than ethanol. DuPont and BP hope to produce the fuel, called biobutanol, on a commercial scale starting in 2013. They are currently testing it in Britain, where a demonstration-scale plant should start operations at the end of next year, according to Nick Fanandakis of DuPont’s applied biosciences division. The fuel — butyl alcohol derived from plant materials rather than fossil fuels — is being pursued by other companies as well. Last November, a private equity company, Patriarch Partners, purchased a shuttered pulp mill in Maine, with the purpose of refitting it to produce biobutanol derived from maple, birch and beech tree chips...NYTimes
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Butanol is a fantastic fuel for both gasoline and diesel engines
Have a look at this article
Biobutanol-Diesel: A perfect blend fuel for future
A lot has been talked and discussed about n-butanol as a potential gasoline blend fuel and its advantages but very less has been talked and researched about butnaol as a DIESEL-blend fuel. I have been working on “butnaol as a fuel” for more than two years, I have studied, researched and analyzed n-butanol’s properties as a gasoline blend fuel as well as a diesel blend fuel. More I went into depth more I started liking to see this fuel as a full blown fuel in either way, the simple
reason is blending of butnaol improves the various shortcomings of the diesel like lubricity, oxidative properties, shelflife, cold flow properies and cold flow
performance.
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