Biobutanol breakthrough: researchers develop bacterial strain that doubles production

Biofuels Digest
August 21, 2009 Jim Lane

In Ohio, research engineers at Ohio State University, reporting at the American Chemical Society meeting this week, said that they have developed a new strain of the bacterium Clostridium beijerinckii in a bioreactor containing bundles of polyester fibers, that produced up to 30 grams of butanol per liter.

Previously, at north of 15 grams per liter concentrations of alcohol, the tank fermentation tank would become too toxic for the bacteria to survive.

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