By Marcia Wood
Special to Poultry Times
BELTSVILLE, Md. — The potential for producing butanol as a biofuel has become a bit more promising, thanks to USDA scientists and their partners.
Work by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) chemical engineer Nasib Qureshi suggests that barley straw and corn stover — both agricultural byproducts — could be cost-effective feedstocks for producing “biobutanol.” ARS is USDA’s chief scientific research agency, and this work supports the USDA priority of developing new sources of bioenergy.
Gallon for gallon, butanol has 30 percent more energy than ethanol and only around 4 percent less. . .
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