{"id":207842,"date":"2025-03-05T05:17:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T11:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/findings-on-butanol-toxicity-may-enable-cheaper-biofuel-production"},"modified":"2025-03-05T05:17:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T11:17:58","slug":"findings-on-butanol-toxicity-may-enable-cheaper-biofuel-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/findings-on-butanol-toxicity-may-enable-cheaper-biofuel-production","title":{"rendered":"Findings on butanol toxicity may enable cheaper biofuel production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/findings-on-butanol-toxicity-may-enable-cheaper-biofuel-production.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One limitation of producing biofuel is that the alcohol created by fermentation is toxic to the microbes that produce it. Now scientists are closer to overcoming this obstacle.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the University of Cincinnati and the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have achieved a breakthrough in understanding the vulnerability of microbes to the alcohols they produce during <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/fermentation\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fermentation<\/a> of plant biomass.<\/p>\n<p>With the national lab\u2019s neutron scattering and simulation equipment, the team analyzed fermentation of the biofuel <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/butanol\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">butanol<\/a>, an energy-packed alcohol that also can be used as a solvent or chemical feedstock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One limitation of producing biofuel is that the alcohol created by fermentation is toxic to the microbes that produce it. Now scientists are closer to overcoming this obstacle. Researchers from the University of Cincinnati and the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have achieved a breakthrough in understanding the vulnerability of microbes to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-chemistry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}