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Arbor Fuel Presents at CURE/Yale BioHaven Series


 

     Continuing the 2009-2010 CURE/Yale BioHaven Entrepreneurship seminar series was a presentation February 25 by Arbor Fuel Inc.

Arbor Fuel, based in Farmington, is using biotechnology to generate cost effective, environmentally sensitive alternative fuels. 

Introduced by Paul Pescatello, president of CURE, the speaker was Steven Henck, president and CEO of Arbor Fuel. 

Arbor Fuel is developing proprietary microbial strains to produce fuels from cellulosic biomass feedstocks. 

That technology enables the production of transportation fuels that do not compete with the food chain, and brings the next generation of high performance renewable fuels to consumers and industry worldwide, the company says.  

Arbor Fuel has successfully developed yeasts to produce advanced renewable fuels and chemicals.

These yeast strains enable  cost-effective, capital-light, profitable production of renewable products, and the technology is proven at bench scale on experimental feedstocks, the company says.

Cellulosic experimental feedstock can be fermented to ethanol with 65% of the theoretical maximum yield in under 48 hours without the addition of external enzymes.  

Yeast strains have also been engineered with a butanol biosynthetic pathway, and proof of principle for this next-generation biofuel has been demonstrated. Butanol can substitute directly for gasoline, has similar energy density and MPGs, and requires no modification to existing engines. 

Butanol does not absorb moisture making it noncorrosive, meaning the existing infrastructure can be used for transportation and storage. Butanol is compatible with ethanol blending and can even improve blending of ethanol with gasoline. Additionally, butanol can be blended with diesel.  

Arbor Fuel was founded in 2007 and completed a Series A round in 2008 with private investors.

The company is currently in the process of seeking a Series B round to fund its ongoing development of industrial processes and a pilot scale plant to be used for both cellulosic ethanol and butanol.

The company website is at <http://arborfuel.com/>.

 
 
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