Biodiesel Reconsider
November 2010By Erin Voegele
Posted Nov. 1, 2010
A research cartel at the Massachusetts Concern of Machinery has won a 50,000 ConocoPhillips Days Make a choice to post the development of a carbohydrate-to-biodiesel process. The technology, which is said to more exactly progression yields, may moreover resource a trail for the metamorphose paraphrase of hydrogen and carbon dioxide dressed in biofuels.
According to Gregory Stephanopoulos, an MIT notebook of chemical manufacturing who is high point the project, the technology utilizes an engineered bug to convert carbohydrate feedstocks dressed in lipids. As Stephanopoulos noted that he is disallowed to notify clear details of the process due to its proprietary brand, he thought that the patent-pending technology can be matter-of-fact to a great portfolio of carbohydrate feedstocks, plus sugars, glucose, glycerin, hydrolysates from biomass and algae.
