Industrial fermentation of renewable diesel fuels

Highlights ► Advanced biofuel companies are developing and producing cost-competitive renewable diesel fuels that exceed the engine performance of petroleum diesel, while lowering emissions and GHG production. ► Renewable diesels, including alkane, olefin and farnesane based fuels, out-perform biodi...

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Published in:Current opinion in biotechnology 2011-06, Vol.22 (3), p.344-350
Main Authors: Westfall, Patrick J, Gardner, Timothy S
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Air Pollution - prevention & control
Air Pollution - statistics & numerical data
Amyris
biofuels
Biofuels - economics
Biofuels - microbiology
Biotechnology
Chemical Industry
Conservation of Energy Resources - methods
Crude oil
Diesel
Diesel engines
diesel fuel
Diesel fuels
emissions
Fermentation
Fuels
gasoline
Gasoline - microbiology
Internal Medicine
Natural gas
Organisms, Genetically Modified - metabolism
Petrol
Petroleum
pumps
Vehicle Emissions
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Summary:Highlights ► Advanced biofuel companies are developing and producing cost-competitive renewable diesel fuels that exceed the engine performance of petroleum diesel, while lowering emissions and GHG production. ► Renewable diesels, including alkane, olefin and farnesane based fuels, out-perform biodiesel fuels. ► To achieve commercial-scale volumes and costs, companies are engineering microbial strains to thrive in demanding full-scale production environments.
ISSN:0958-1669
1879-0429
DOI:10.1016/j.copbio.2011.04.023