butanol

Anybody reasonable gives up and goes to some kind of single entity fuel like methanol or butanol or dimethyl ether.

That Mazda could almost as easily have been run on ethanol, methanol or maybe even butanol.

Ground transportation has moved on to single-entity fuels that are synthesizable like 1-butanol and dimethyl ether.

It was a byproduct of butanol & isobutanol manufacture, which themselves are relatively clean solvents.

But it's a much less hard problem to make synthetic versions of them (eg butanol).

But synthetic hydrocarbons (eg butanol), and the process to make them sustainably, make much more sense to me as future aviation jet fuel.

Or potentially methanol (and better yet, butanol, which is easier to deal with than methanol, less corrosive, less hydroscopic).

Acetone–butanol–ethanol fermentation was itself a critical WWI technology, as cordite required acetone.

Other processes that convert sugar into biofuels such as ethanol and butanol always have energy efficiencies of less than 100 percent, resulting in an energy penalty.

> use 'renewables' to sequester CO2 from the atmosphere and convert it into something like butanol, for example.

After derivatization to butyl esters using 5% hydrochloric acid in butanol, the samples were separated on a C18 column using a gradient consisting of water and acetonitrile.

There are all sorts of storage media under development to get around this hydrogen volumetric density problem, but none are much closer to market than this butanol project.

Unless they're planning to be like printer companies: "Out of 3-methyl-1-butanol; please replace entire cartridge".

Interesting that higher rice content in beer "revealed buttery, vanilla and creamy notes" and "was correlated with increased levels of larger alcohol molecules, like 3-methyl-1-butanol, which contribute positively to mouthfeel without raising the alcohol content above the legal nonalcoholic beer threshold." Do those larger alcohol compounds have known downsides similar to ethanol (e.g.

The remaining carbohydrates in the algae can be turned into ethyl alcohol by yeast, or Acetone/Butanol/Ethanol by the ABE fermentation cycle and the protein can be used for animal consumption, or anaerobic respiration into methane.