Biomass, Electricity Make Liquid Transportation FuelsUsing simple technology developed primarily for producing electricity from hydrogen, a team of researchers from the Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Univ. of Massachusetts-Amherst and Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology of South Korea has developed what could be a commercially viable, continuous process for converting biomass and electricity into renewable liquid transportation fuels.George Huber, a UW-Madison professor of chemical and biological engineering, and his collaborators have demonstrated they can use a proton-exchange-membrane fuel cell to convert the model biomass compound acetone into isopropanol, a chemical compound with a wide variety of pharmaceutical and industrial applications, including as a gasoline additive.Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2012/10/biomass-electricity-make-liquid-transportation-fuels

Biomass, Electricity Make Liquid Transportation Fuels

Using simple technology developed primarily for producing electricity from hydrogen, a team of researchers from the Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Univ. of Massachusetts-Amherst and Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology of South Korea has developed what could be a commercially viable, continuous process for converting biomass and electricity into renewable liquid transportation fuels.

George Huber, a UW-Madison professor of chemical and biological engineering, and his collaborators have demonstrated they can use a proton-exchange-membrane fuel cell to convert the model biomass compound acetone into isopropanol, a chemical compound with a wide variety of pharmaceutical and industrial applications, including as a gasoline additive.

Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2012/10/biomass-electricity-make-liquid-transportation-fuels