For the last five years, a group of marine manufacturers has been testing isobutanol, another form of alcohol that does not attract water or corrode fuel lines and boasts 30 percent higher energy ...

Gevo is producing higher-chain alcohols such as isobutanol, which currently come from oil. “We found a way to produce isobutanol at 50 percent of the cost of petrochemical processes, and it’s ...

Yeast already helps make bread and beer and cranks out the biofuel ethanol, but scientists believe it can be used to create an even more efficient fuel called isobutanol. Normally, yeast only creates ...

There’s a good chance you’ve paid quite a bit of money to drink isobutanol. “One of the flavor notes of scotch is isobutanol,” says Patrick Gruber, CEO of Gevo, adding that the naturally ...

For the first time, BESC researchers have succeeded in producing isobutanol directly from cellulosic plant matter using bacteria. Being a higher grade of alcohol than ethanol, isobutanol holds ...

Using consolidated bioprocessing, a team led by James Liao of the University of California at Los Angeles for the first time produced isobutanol directly from cellulose. The team's work ...

Unlike certain other biofuels, isobutanol can be used directly as is, requiring no refining. The bacteria produce the alcohol continuously, releasing it into their fluid environment, from which it ...

Theoretically, isobutanol can be burned at up to a 16% blend rate with gasoline, more than the 15% restriction currently imposed by EPA on ethanol blends – and that rate (E15) is allowed only ...

--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Gevo, Inc., a privately held renewable chemicals and advanced biofuels company, announced today that it received notification that its isobutanol had successfully cleared ...

Yeast already helps make bread and beer and cranks out the biofuel ethanol, but scientists believe it can be used to create an even more efficient fuel called isobutanol. Normally, yeast only ...

LUVERNE, Minn. (AP) -- A Colorado company plans to convert a Minnesota ethanol plant to make a different kind of alcohol: isobutanol. Gevo Inc. of Englewood, Colo., hopes to begin isobutanol ...

Isobutanol can also be used to fuel boat engines and small engines. During the fourth quarter, Gevo's Luverne plant churned out 190,000 gallons of isobutanol, its highest quarterly production ever.