University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences URBANA – A new discovery should make the alternative fuel butanol more attractive to the biofuel industry.

Fermentation technology, though mature, remains challenged by the accumulation of potentially inhibitory products and by-products. A semi-partition bioreactor resolves this limitation, allowing ...

Berkeley Lab researchers combine old fermentation process for making explosives with new chemical catalysis to boost biofuel production A fermentation technique once used to make cordite, the ...

A new discovery should make the alternative fuel butanol more attractive to the biofuel industry. Scientists have found a way around the bottleneck that has frustrated producers in the past and could ...