Gevo, Inc

Technology: Biotechnology

Overview
Our team of biofuel experts is developing the next generation of biofuels that will provide a sustainable path to the replacement of petrochemicals like gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.

Advanced biofuels, which include butanol, isobutanol and other alcohol systems will:

Deliver the performance of gasoline without the environmental impact
Help to eliminate supply scarcity and reduce our dependency on foreign oil
Reduce greenhouse gases and dirty emissions duty."

Making Renewable Fuels An Affordable Reality
Advanced biofuels like isobutanol and butanol can also address many challenges that first-generation biofuels such as ethanol have faced on their path to market: energy efficiency, transport and the need to modify existing engines. In contrast, butanol:

Has a higher energy content per gallon than many first generation biofuels
Does not absorb water and can be transported through the existing oil and gas distribution infrastructure.
Can be used in gas-powered vehicles without modification or blending, which eliminates our dependency on fossil fuels.

Technology
To create advanced biofuels like butanol, our veteran team of research scientists has developed a proprietary process to convert agricultural waste products into renewable, alcohol-based, liquid fuels.

What separates us from other biofuel technology companies is three critical pieces of technology we have developed to efficiently and cost-effectively produce advanced biofuels on a large scale:

Protein Engineering of Biocatalysts
To create advanced biofuels like butanol, our veteran team of research scientists have developed a proprietary process to convert agricultural waste products into different types of renewable, alcohol-based, liquid fuels.

Metabolic Engineering of Suitable Host Organisms
We are engineering suitable host organisms that utilize carbon and energy efficiently for fuel production. These strains exhibit the increased yield and productivity sufficient to produce commodity chemicals and fuels on a large scale.

Process Engineering
We have developed a proprietary process technology to enhance productivity and lower product separation costs. Our process models predict that the economical production of butanol and other fuels is comparable in cost to current ethanol production.

Process Picture: http://www.gevo.com/our_technology.php

Who they are
Gevo is a biotechnology company based in Englewood, Colorado that is committed to becoming the world leader in biofuel technology, development and processing. Since 2005, our three co-founders, renowned researchers Frances Arnold, Matthew Peters and Peter Meinhold of the California Institute of Technology, have worked tirelessly to bring the best of the scientific and business worlds together to reach our goal of replacing fossil fuels with new, more environmentally sound alternatives. In doing so, they have comprised a team of the most creative, driven and experienced veterans of bioprocessing and the commercialization of bio-based systems.

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