Biotech firm launches new fuel enzyme

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2010
• Weight: 76 KB
• Volume: 2010
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1351-4180
• DOI: 10.1016/s1351-4180(10)70123-9

✦ Synopsis

doubled to over 4 bn l/y. Also included in the jv are Iogen, a Canadian firm attempting to produce ethanol from straw, and Codexis, an enzyme producer. Because second-generation biofuels could take up to ten years to commercialize, in 2009 Shell sold its stake in Choren, a German producer of such biofuels. Shell and Cosan retail operations in Brazil will be combined and Shell will gain an additional source of ethanol for its global sales network.