A KEY new report on the future of Grangemouth has laid out nine options for the site after the oil refinery closes down ...

Researchers have uncovered how biofuel alcohols, like butanol, damage microbial membranes, limiting production efficiency. This new insight paves the way to improving biofuel yield and economic ...

One limitation of producing biofuel is that the alcohol created by fermentation is toxic to the microbes that produce it.Now scientists are closer to ...

One limitation of producing biofuel is that the alcohol created by fermentation is toxic to the microbes that produce it.Now scientists are closer to ...

With the national lab's neutron scattering and simulation equipment, the team analyzed fermentation of the biofuel butanol, an energy-packed alcohol that also can be used as a solvent or chemical ...

Researchers from the University of Cincinnati and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory achieved a breakthrough in understanding the vulnerability of microbes to the alcohols ...

In this video we will be making butyric acid by oxidizing 1-butanol (n-butanol) using KMno4. Chemicals: -6.2mL 1-butanol -14g KMno4 -1.5g sodium carbonate -2M H2SO4 -Diethyl ether -90mL 3% H2O2 ...