Biocatalysts for Green Fuel
Arizona State receives a five million dollar grant through the DOE's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy program to fund its research into modified-cyanobacteria. The project will create bacteria as a bio-catalyst to produce fatty acids for biofuel production. ...
... "The project essentially uses the cyanobacteria as biocatalysts for generating the fatty acids which, in turn, are secreted by the cyanobacteria. Fatty acids, a biofuel feedstock, then are used for producing jet fuel, gasoline, even green diesel fuel, said lead researcher Wim Vermaas, a professor in ASU’s School of Life Sciences and the Center for Bioenergy and Photosynthesis. The advantage of the new process is getting the cyanobacteria to secrete the fatty acids, Vermaas said. " ...Via Arizona State: Renewable Energy Grants