Sweden’s SEKAB, Taurus Energy, others form cellulosic fuels R&D partnership for five-carbon sugars

In Sweden, researchers at Taurus Energy, SEKAB, Chalmers Technical University and the University of Lund announced an R&D agreement for the development of cellulosic fuels. The agreement is based on the Taurus yeast process for fermentation of six- and five-carbon sugars. The president of Taurus Energy said that the group hoped to become the first to demonstrate a commercially viable process for making fuel from five-carbon sugar, or pentose. The researchers will test the process, which has the potential to increase yields by 40 percent, at a SEKAB pilot plant on a 10 cubic meter scale. The process has been previously tested at a one-liter scale in the lab.

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