According to a collaboration led by the Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), they have successfully developed a microbe that can produce an advanced biofuel directly from biomass.

Making use of synthetic biology, the JBEI researchers have engineered a strain of Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria to produce biodiesel fuel and other important chemicals that are derived from fatty acids.

The Chief Executive Officer for JBEI, Jay Keasling said that the fact that microbes can produce a diesel fuel directly from biomass with no additional chemical modifications is exciting and important and a leading scientific authority on synthetic biology.

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An innovative device has been developed by a team of scientists from the University of Sheffield, UK, that will make the production of alternative biofuels more energy efficient.

Unique bioreactor used in the production of alternative renewable fuels

A unique bioreactor has been adapted by the research team for use in the production of alternative renewable fuels, in order to replace fossil fuels such as petrol and diesel.

Currently vast amounts of power is required for the manufacture of biofuels and when too much energy is used in the process then it is uneconomic.

This methods saves huge amount of Energy

So using this new method much less energy would be consumed and it could prove to be vital to the economic, green production of alternative fuels.

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