WWI fermentation process could hold key to efficient biofuel production

In California, the fermentation process used to make cordite for bullets and artillery shells during WWI could be used to better ferret sugars found in biomass. A Berkeley Lab has been able to upgrade metabolic pathways for creating transportation fuels close to theoretical yields… up to a gallon of fuel from 16 pounds of sugars that are derived from lignocellulosic biomass. The key bacterium is Clostridium acetobutylicum.

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Tags: Berkeley, biomass, California, cordite

Category: Research