Biobutanol – the fuel to leap the blend wall?

Biofuels Digest
June 15, 2010 Jim Lane

Digest readers who closely analyze the Advanced Biofuels Tracking Database will have noticed that, commencing in 2012, biobutanol is scheduled to grow rapidly from pilot stage today to more than 500 million gallons in production by 2014. That’s about 60 percent more butanol by 2014 than the entire US biodiesel market today.

Not to mention that biobutanol has become one of the “now” darlings of the DOE — which has been looking for early “wins” from its round of integrated bioenergy facility grants and sees biobutanol as a sector that will gain traction and find financing the fastest.

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