Cellulosic Ethanol

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Cellulosic ethanol is a promising future fuel that is derived from inedible biomass. Qteros's unique microbial strain is one of the few capable of breaking down the resilient lignin that makes up a large, typically unprocessible part of this biomass. The fermentation process also continues on to turn the available sugars and their contained chemical energy into useful industrial biofuel.

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Qteros' technology is based on the novel Q Microbe® (Clostridium phytofermentans), a naturally occurring anaerobic microbe discovered by University of Massachusetts microbiologist Dr. Susan Leschine. The Q Microbe® offers several advantages over other ethanol-producing microorganisms: the ability to ferment polymeric forms of sugar, resulting in decreased pretreatment costs and more efficient ethanol production; and the production of ethanol as the primary product of the microorganism's metabolism. All of these advantages improve the economics of ethanol production, making this microorganism ideally suited for large-scale production of cellulosic ethanol from a variety of non-food plant materials. Source

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http://www.qteros.com
www.bp.com
www.dsm.com
www.proterro.com
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