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Biofuels jump forward with elimination of key cost barrier
Source : southwestfarmpress.com
Until now, harvesting fats from microbes has required many costly additional processing steps that contribute up to 80% of the total cost of their renewable biofuel production, making them uncompetitive compared with petroleum production costs. A Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University research team has developed a process that removes a key obstacle to producing low-cost, renewable biofuels from bacteria. The team has reprogrammed photosynthetic microbes to secrete high-energy fats, making byproduct recovery and conversion to biofuels easier and potentially more commercially viable. "The real costs involved in any biofuel production are harvesting the goodies and turning them into fuel", said Roy Curtiss, of the Institute's Center for Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology and professor in the School of Life Sciences. "This whole system that we have developed is a means to a green recovery of materials not requiring energy dependent physical or chemical processes."
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8 June 2011 |
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