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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/engineering/events/distinguished-speaker-seminar-s
 eries-featuring-dr-gregory
LOCATION:QNC-0101 200 University Avenue West Online Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Can
 ada
SUMMARY:Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series featuring Dr. Gregory\nStephan
 opoulos\, W.H. Dow Professor MIT: Can biotechnology deliver cost\neffectiv
 e liquid fuels from renewable feedstocks?
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DESCRIPTION:The importance of liquid fuels in transportation is well establ
 ished\,\nyet\, there are presently no viable options for their cost-effect
 ive\nproduction from renewable feedstocks.  During the past 15 years we\n
 have been developing in my lab a system for the conversion of gas\nmixture
 s of hydrogen (or CO) and CO2 to oils or alkanes. The two-stage\nsystem co
 mprises anaerobic fixation of CO2 and conversion of the CO2\nfixation prod
 uct (for example\, acetate) to lipids\, from which\nbiodiesel can be produ
 ced. In another application\, the CO2 fixation\nproduct is converted to al
 kanes. Our work includes both the\nengineering of the microbes and develop
 ment of a process to achieve\ngas to liquid conversion in prototype system
 s. These systems are\nscalable\, make no use of land (beyond what is neede
 d for generating\nrenewable electricity for hydrogen production)\, do not 
 compete with\nfood and are cost competitive based on high level cost analy
 sis. I\nwill present the essential features of this process in my talk\; f
 ull\ndetails can be found in the 5 papers cited.
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