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A long-abandoned fermentation process is being resurrected by UC Berkeley chemists and chemical engineers to produce compounds to feed a catalytic reaction that produces a fuel that looks and acts just like diesel. The fuel has a higher energy content than ethanol, and could help replace nonrenewable transportation fuels.
Tag: fossil fuels
Computer model finds best materials for capturing greenhouse gas emissions
August 24, 2012:
Berend Smit, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering in the College of Chemistry, has developed a computer model that predicts the best types of metal organic frameworks (MOF) for capturing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from the smokestack emissions of power plants.
