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June 28, 2006

BP and DuPont Partner to Develop New Biofuels

London, UK [RenewableEnergyAccess.com]

BP and DuPont announce their partnership to develop, produce and market a next generation of biofuels to help meet increasing global demand for renewable transport fuels. The two companies, which have worked together since 2003 to develop advanced biofuels with properties that help overcome the limitations of existing biofuels, are accelerating the move toward renewable transportation fuels to lower overall greenhouse gas emissions.

"Biobutanol is just the beginning of new solutions DuPont can offer to transform global economies by improving our use of renewable ingredients and natural processes to deliver products for a better, safer, healthier world."

-- Charles O. Holliday, Jr., DuPont, chairman and CEO

The first product to market will be biobutanol, which will be introduced in 2007 as a gasoline bio-component in the UK, where BP and DuPont are working with British Sugar to convert the country's first ethanol fermentation facility.

This next generation of biofuels will help deliver on these targets, the release states. Biobutanol's low vapor pressure and its tolerance to water contamination in gasoline blends facilitate its use in existing gasoline supply and distribution channels. It has the potential to be blended into gasoline at larger concentrations than existing biofuels without the need to retrofit vehicles and it offers better fuel economy than gasoline-ethanol blends, thereby improving a car's fuel efficiency and mileage.

"DuPont firmly believes that biology will help us reduce global reliance on fossil fuels," said DuPont Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Charles O. Holliday, Jr. "Biobutanol is just the beginning of new solutions DuPont can offer to transform global economies by improving our use of renewable ingredients and natural processes to deliver products for a better, safer, healthier world."

Both companies plan to address increased market penetration, which involves compatibility with existing fuel supply and distribution systems, the ability to blend in higher concentrations without requiring vehicle modifications, and fuel economy.
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June 28, 2006
There is another company, Environmental
Energy, Inc. (www.butanol.com ) that seems
to be ahead in the butanol competition. The UK
plant of BP/Dupont will employ the A.B.E.
(acetone.butanol.ethanol) fermentation process to generate mostly butanol, rather than mostly ethanol, as current ethanol plants do. They state their current process not to be competitive with gasoline but expect to develop a genetically engineered catalyst that will increase butanol yield - they call this their stage II proces, and don't see it coming until
2010. Environmetl Energy is using a patented
process developed at OSU and is building a test plant. In a personal email , David Ramey, one of the codevelopers, stated that his process can easily beat Dupont's and that if biomass is used, prices at the plant could be
around 85 cents a gallon. Normally it's about
the same as ethanol , $1.25 per gallon.
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