[Gasification] [Terrapreta] Catalysts for making Butanol

[Harmon Seaver]

   The only things I've ever seen about making butanol was through a
two-part fermentation, and needing a sterile environment.


Greg and April wrote:
> While the process for making methanol from syngas is well understood and
> well out of reach of the common person, what about the catalytic
> process for making butanol?
>  
> While internet searching, I have found many processes for using butanol
> with catalysts to make other things, I have found only one page, that
> refers to catalysts that are used to make butanol ( from what I think is
> using syngas ), does any one have any more information on the process?
>  
> The one webpage I found lists tin dioxide, cerium dioxide and rhodium
> oxide at 350* C, which while may be a little exotic, the temperature
> range is within what a backyard producer could manage, if I'm reading
> this right.   
>  
> http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6TF5-43439MD-C&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=8698fe8de34a842bff037a2a1df48057
> <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6TF5-43439MD-C&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=8698fe8de34a842bff037a2a1df48057>
>  
> Greg H.

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Harmon Seaver