BP has pulled out of plans to build a $300m plant in Florida that would have been capable of producing biofuel from hard to break down crops.

The move follows Shell's decision to back out of a similar commercial-scale plant in Canada intended to make ethanol from straw and plant waste. It also further shrinks BP's alternative energy business to just two main operations focused on US wind power and ethanol made from Brazilian sugar cane.

However, BP is also still working on plans to develop a plant in Hull, North-East England, capable of processing local feed wheat into 420 million litres of bioethanol, and a biobutanol plant on the same site in partnership with DuPont.

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The team from the Tulane University calls their new bacteria TU-103, and it is apparently the first bacteria found in nature that can convert cellulose directly into butanol. Meanwhile, researchers at the U.S. DOE are developing another biofuel microbe that can produce butanol from waste material, including agricultural waste.

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Making bacteria make more fuel

A new microbe engineering trick could potentially make butanol, a promising biofuel, so cheaply that it could compete with ethanol. By tapping into a highly efficient metabolic pathway, scientists at Rice University engineered E. coli to convert sugars to butanol 10 times more efficiently than any other organism.

Butanol, which is typically made by fermenting sugar, packs more energy per gallon than ethanol and can be shipped via existing oil pipelines.

http://www.eco-business.com/news/making-bacteria-make-more-fuel/

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Metabolism in reverse and 10X increase in Biofuel Production - http://www.media.rice.edu/media/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=16031&SnID=1521497554

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BP plans to produce cellulosic ethanol, but is also investing heavily in biobutanol technology

http://www.ethanolproducer.com/articles/7943/bp-president-provides-update-on-oil-giants-biofuels-business

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Butanol isomers-nbutanol, isobutanol and tertbutanol and their properties - http://www.biobutanol.com/Butanol-Isomers-isobutanol,-n-butanol,-tert-butanol.html

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Phytonix obtains guarded bacteria biobutanol process license

A new photosynthetic bacteria-based process for biobutanol production now belongs to Phytonix. The North Carolina company developed the process with the help of the Angrstrom Laboratories at Uppsala University in Sweden, and recently received global licensing rights. The bacterium used to create the biobutanol only requires CO2, sunlight and water, and, according to Bruce Dannenberg, found and CEO of Phytonix

http://www.ethanolproducer.com/articles/7617/phytonix-obtains-guarded-bacteria-biobutanol-process-license

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Cobalt and API partner to offer cellulosic biobutanol solution

Cobalt Technologies and American Process Inc. have announced an agreement to build an industrial-scale cellulosic biobutanol refinery. The companies have also agreed to jointly market a joint biorefining solution to biomass power facilities and other customers.

http://www.ethanolproducer.com/articles/7706/cobalt-and-api-partner-to-offer-cellulosic-biobutanol-solution

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Biobutanol holds promise for the next phase of Old Town Fuel & Fiber

Today the plant, now Old Town Fuel & Fiber, produces 600 tons of kraft pulp a day to feed a growing global demand. More importantly, the pulp process provides feedstock for a new sustainable fuel derived from wood: biobutanol, a renewable energy substitute for gasoline.

http://www.mainebiz.biz/news48120.html

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Green Biologics gets funded to make biobutanol in India - (Sep 2008) Green Biologics is looking to raise £3.5 million ($6.33 million) to commercialize its biofuels technology. The British company signed a contract with Oaxmi Organic Industries in India to build a demonstration plant, also in India, that makes biobutanol from molasses. The companies expect the plant to begin making 1,000 metric tons of butanol beginning in 2010. - http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/funding-roundup-greentech-investors-diversify-1485.html

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Biobutanol Plans in Korea and India - A biotechnology firm working on cellulosic biobutanol (earlier post) has signed an agreement with Laxmi Organic Industries to develop and construct a commercial scale demonstrator for biobutanol in India - http://www.greencarcongress.com/2008/09/biobutanol-plan.html

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Interesting data on biobutanol - Good data on biobutanol; also gives a comparison of biobutanol and ethanol with regard to its properties - http://www.greencarcongress.com/2007/02/biofuels_entrep.html

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14 lbs of sugar to make 1 gal butanol - It takes 14 pounds of sugar from whatever source to make a gallon of butanol. If the source is sugar cane, sugar beets, grasses, weeds such as kudzu, kiwi fruit, whatever, if sugar can be extracted it can be used as feedstock for the making of alcohols. - http://www.greencarcongress.com/2007/02/biofuels_entrep.html

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Biobutanol without the downsides - BioButanol has previously been manufactured in an anerobic batch process, that process has had a down side of also producing acetone and ethanol as well as butanol. David Ramey has invented a method to continuously produce butanol in a closed system, which extracts the butanol as it is produced, leaving the process intact, which allows the continued production, without the burdens placed on the manufacturing plant due to batch processing. - http://www.greencarcongress.com/2007/02/biofuels_entrep.html

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BP, DuPont in Biobutanol venture - In 2006, BP announced a big JV with DuPont, to produce commercial quantities of biobutanol - something that can be blended into the gasoline infrastructure more easily than can be ethanol -

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Biobutanol's advantages - On Bio Butanol, it certainly got my interest up and I am still studying it like mad! It has all the right requirements to me, being high up the Hydrogen/Carbon balance ladder, that is to say, mostly hydrogen, and shows signs of being economical to produce, and able to make use of much infrastructure as it exists. -

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