Gevo wins grant for biomass to butanol development

Biomass Magazine November 2009
Posted November 17, 2009, at 7:30 a.m. CST

Gevo recently announced that it has been awarded $1.8 million from the U.S. DOE and USDA’s Biomass R&D Initiative to help fund ongoing development of its yeast strain to produce biobutanol from cellulosic biomass. Biobutanol is an advanced biofuel that can be blended directly into gasoline and be used to make renewable hydrocarbons (green gasoline), jet and diesel fuel, chemical intermediates and biobased plastics. Gevo is collaborating with Cargill on the project.

“Cellulosic conversion technology is expected to be commercialized in the next few years,” said David Glassner, executive vice president of technology at Gevo. “Gevo wants to be ready when this happens with a yeast strain we can deploy to make biobutanol.”

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