The future of alcohol-based biofuels: will we see the death of ethanol and birth of butanol?

Abstract

“…innovation has been delivered in all stages of the biobutanol life cycle, although these advancements are still relatively small in relation to how far biobutanol fuels have to go to get from pipe-dream to pipe-line.”

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to express their gratitude to a number of unnamed individuals and companies who assisted in the writing of this article through giving up their time to discuss their experiences and the challenges facing biobutanol.

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Notes on contributors

J.S. Rowbotham

H.C. Greenwell

M. Adcock