Researchers Turn Fermented Biomass Into Gasoline With Palladium
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process was inspired by an explosives making method What can't
palladium do? Named after the mythological statue erected by
Greek goddess Athena in honor of Pallas, the daughter of her
cousin whom she slew in a friendly fight, the platinum group
metal (PGM) is used in everything to explosives making. I. From
Explosives to Biofuel U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory (referred to as LBNL or Berkeley
Lab) -- located on the campus of the University of California,
Berkeley -- have devised a way to use palladium to catalyze the
production of gasoline, diesel, or jet fuel from fermented
biomass. fermented by genetically engineered bacterium ,
produces a slurry of low-carbon byproducts -- acetone and the
alcohols butanol and ethanol (known collectively as ABE). The
LBNL researchers were inspired to use palladium as a means of
producing higher-carbon byproducts based