New Bioconversion Process to Make Biofuels from Waste Glycerin
5 January 2010 | Alternative Energy | No Comments
Nowadays, many companies are triyng to work with useless substances to create something useful. Often, secondary products resulted from production processes of various industries are used to creat new useful things. One of these companies is Glycos Biotechnologies Inc. which sells glycerin-gobbling microorganisms developed by researchers at Rice University. On the basis of an energy-efficient bioconversion process are those microorganisms which help to convert waste glycerin into fuels.
Glycerin disposal involves high costs and this may descrease the profitability of many companies. Because of this they began to find different ways to turn this secondary product into high-value chemicals like alcohols and acids. These substances may be useful in the food industry or to make fabric, insulations and even for the production of new types of biofuels. Many researchers have already managed to convert Glycerin into ethanol, hydrogen gas and methane. I think that the use of a large percentage of glycerin would have many advantages, and here I refer to the creation of new biofuels or food products.
“GlycosBio designed its operations to follow familiar refinery processes, which makes integration relatively easy. The big difference is the company’s proprietary microbe based conversion process, which requires far less heat and power. In addition to crude glycerin, the conversion process can also work on a variety of biofuel feedstocks, perhaps including algae.”
Source: CleanTechnica
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