[Gasification] [Terrapreta] Catalysts for making Butanol

Dick Glick dglickd at pipeline.com
Mon Feb 11 11:16:07 CST 2008


 Hello Greg and April --

Interesting history -- Weizmann in WWI developed the anaerobic fermentation
process that led to providing fuel for their war effort.  A Texas A&M 
engineering
 type has done some work on the process claiming considerable improvement in
yield.

Chaim Weizmann (1874-1952), Zionist leader and later (1948-1952) first
 president of Israel, was in his "daytime" professional life a pioneering
bio-organic chemist (nowadays best remembered for the acetone-butanol
fermentation process)

Best, Dick
www.CorpFurRes.com




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