LS9, Inc, the Renewable Petroleum Company™, has announced a major breakthrough in the ability to make cellulosic-derived advanced biofuels. A collaborative team of researchers from LS9, Inc, the University of California at Berkeley, and the US Department of Energy’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have developed a microbe that can produce an advanced biofuel directly from cellulosic biomass in a one-step process.
Using the power of synthetic biology, the team of researchers engineered a microbe that consolidates advanced biofuels production and cellulosic bioprocessing for the first time. This breakthrough enables the production of advanced hydrocarbon fuels and chemicals in a single fermentation process that does not require additional chemical transformations.
LS9 is a low-cost producer of renewable advanced diesel products. The company’s UltraClean™ Diesel is the only finished fuel directly produced by fermentation of renewable raw materials in a single step. Its proprietary one-step process has higher yields and removes additional production costs associated with the multi-step processes required by other renewable diesel technologies. A specialist in synthetic biology, LS9 genetically engineers microorganisms to precisely produce fuels to have desired properties such as cetane, volatility, oxidative stability and cold flow, while offering an 85 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions when compared to conventional diesel. The company’s published research demonstrates how the LS9 organisms can be further engineered to directly convert biomass to these advanced fuels and chemicals. The team of collaborators will now jointly work on optimising the efficiency by which their engineered microbe can convert cellulosic biomass into advanced biofuels.
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