Cobalt and NREL verify advanced biocatalyst

biofuels international
8 March 2012

Cobalt Technologies has successfully demonstrated of one of its advanced biocatalysts in partnership with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), which forms part of the US Department of Energy. Cobalt completed multiple fermentation campaigns in a 9,000 litre fermenter, exceeding the target yield and other performance metrics for a commercial scale facility. The demonstration showed the biocatalyst's ability to convert non-food based substrates into renewable n-butanol and resulted in high sugar conversion and high yields of butanol.

'Ultimately, we're showing performance is achievable at commercial scale across our technology platform,' says Bob Mayer, CEO of Cobalt Technologies.

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