Although the science behind this newly found bio-fuel is not fully complete and ready to implement, butanol leaves us with a hope greater than that of ethanol.
But what is butanol? When speaking of it as a bio-fuel, it is an alchol based fuel that, at 85% strength, can be used without any changes to many engines, unlike ethanol. Butanol fuel is produced from fermentation of biomass. Essentially rotting bio-materials can be converted into butanol.
It’s imagery that causes us to reflect on a mad scientist named Doc Brown from a movie called Back To The Future. We see a frazzled man with interesting sunglasses from the future that was dumping trash into his Delorean engine to produce fuel. Just exclude the aluminum cans and plastics, and keep the banana peels, rotting foods, and plants, and we’re not far from a butanol powered engine.
When compared to ethanol, butanol is less corrosive, more sutable for distrubution through existing gasoline pipe-lines, and has more energy available to burn. Although there are no automobiles in production right now that are ready for butanol, it is concievable that we could see more ink about this new fuel in the near future.
it is true that butanol is important biofuel for future but we have to see for its production by fermentation by various microbes but we have to see cost ,higher yield ,optimising conditions for higher production.
A great article here, but one slight inaccuracy. While there are no automobiles in production right now that are stated by the manufacturer to be ready for butanol, in fact most cars on the road now are capable of running on 100% butanol. See this site for more info: http://www.butanol.com/
This helped on our project. Yepp. Bye :]
The real problem is the economy .By fermentation Yield : 0.3 kg /kg sugar Concentration 14 kg by cubic meter of fermentation broth.The cost of raw materials and extraction are bottlenecking.
A technological breaktrough is necessary and urgent.