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April 15, 2013

Cost-saving measure to upgrade ethanol to butanol -- a better alternative to gasoline
New Orleans LA (SPX) Apr 15, 2013
Scientists have reported a discovery that could speed an emerging effort to replace ethanol in gasoline with a substantially better fuel additive called butanol, which some experts regard as "the gasoline of the future." Their report on this discovery, which holds potential to reduce the costs of converting ethanol factories to production of butanol, came at the 245th National Meeting and Exposition of the American Chemical Society. Duncan Wass explained that ethanol has become a leading bio ... read more

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