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  • Nanocatalyst could help speed lignocellulose

    (automatically updated/inserted from The Big Biofuels Blog)


    Bioecon, says it has a silver bullet for converting cellulolsic biomass into useful ethanol or biodiesel starting materials. I can’t say much more than that because Paul O’Connor, the firm’s director did not say much more than that. But his group, which features academics from blue chip universities is looking to trial the process commercially in 2007. O’Connor says the nano-scale catalyst can break down tough bundles of cellulose in the body of plants like switchgrass and waste products such as wood chips fairly quickly and in concentrations that are much higher than enzymes can handle.

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