Biobutanol – the fuel to leap the blend wall?
Biofuels Digest
Biobutanol – the fuel to leap the blend wall?
Published: June 15, 2010
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.
The traction is coming from three companies – Butamax, Gevo and Cobalt Technologies – each with a different path to commercialization based on differentiated technology, and also their financial structure. What they share is commercial guidance that biobutanol is about to explode – for both the chemicals and fuels markets.