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URL:/engineering/events/distinguished-speaker-seminar-s
 eries-featuring-dr-gregory
SUMMARY:Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series featuring Dr. Gregory\nStephan
 opoulos\, W.H. Dow Professor MIT: Can biotechnology deliver cost\neffectiv
 e liquid fuels from renewable feedstocks?
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DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nThe importance of liquid fuels in transportation is
  well established\,\nyet\, there are presently no viable options for their
  cost-effective\nproduction from renewable feedstocks.  During the past 1
 5 years we\nhave been developing in my lab a system for the conversion of 
 gas\nmixtures of hydrogen (or CO) and CO2 to oils or alkanes. The two-stag
 e\nsystem comprises anaerobic fixation of CO2 and conversion of the CO2\nf
 ixation product (for example\, acetate) to lipids\, from which\nbiodiesel 
 can be produced. In another application\, the CO2 fixation\nproduct is con
 verted to alkanes. Our work includes both the\nengineering of the microbes
  and development of a process to achieve\ngas to liquid conversion in prot
 otype systems. These systems are\nscalable\, make no use of land (beyond w
 hat is needed for generating\nrenewable electricity for hydrogen productio
 n)\, do not compete with\nfood and are cost competitive based on high leve
 l cost analysis. I\nwill present the essential features of this process in
  my talk\; full\ndetails can be found in the 5 papers cited.\n 
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