From Methanol to Butanol

University of Delaware receives multimillion-dollar ARPA-E award for methane conversion research.

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University of Delaware receives multimillion-dollar ARPA-E award for methane conversion research.

10:05 a.m., Sept. 23, 2013--The University of Delaware has been awarded a three-year grant totaling more than $3 million from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E) to use an engineered microorganism to produce butanol, a useful transportation fuel, from methanol and carbon dioxide.

The project aims to use methanol as the starting chemical for butanol production.

The work will be led by Terry Papoutsakis at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute, with UD co-investigators Wilfred Chen, Gore Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Maciek Antoniewicz, DuPont Young Professor, along with professor Mattheos Koffas of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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