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BP and DuPont Partner to Develop New Biofuels

June 28, 2006   |   1 Comment

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"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
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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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