Biogasoline

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Biogasoline are biohydrocarbons with between 5 and 12 carbon atoms per molecule, mainly hexane.

These biogasolines can be used in pure state (100% biogasoline or BG100) in any conventional gasoline engine (as happens with biobutanol), and can be distributed in the same fueling infrastructure, as the properties match traditional gasoline from petroleum.^[1] Heptanone is not really biogasoline and requires a small percentage of octane booster to match gasoline. Ethanol fuel (E85) requires a special engine and has lower combustion energy and corresponding fuel economy. ^[2]

Biogasoline is different from biobutanol and Ethanol, as they are bioalcohols and not bio-hydrocarbons.

1 Properties of common fuels
2 See also
3 External links
- 3.1 Companies
- 3.2 Research institutes
4 References

[edit] Properties of common fuels

Fuel	Energy Density MJ/L	Air-fuel ratio	Specific Energy MJ/kg	Heat of Vaporization MJ/kg	RON	MON
Gasoline	34.6	14.6	46.9	0.36	91–99	81–89
Butanol fuel	29.2	11.2	36.6	0.43	96	78
Ethanol fuel	24.0	9.0	30.0	0.92	129	102
Methanol fuel	19.7	6.5	15.6	1.2	136	104

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biogasoline/

[edit] Companies

(Non-exhaustive list)

Amyris Biotechnologies (gasoline and diesel substitutes from feedstocks used in ethanol production)
BGT Biogasoline (hexane and heptanol from sugars)
Codexis (biofuels from non-food feedstocks via special catalysts)
Diversified Energy (Centia™ - high performance biofuels from renewable oil)
LS9 ("Renewable Petroleum™" - customized fuel from microbes)
Synthetic Genomics (oil from engineered microbes)
Virent Energy Systems ("BioForming" - biofuels from a variety of feedstocks via catalysts)
Sapphire Energy:(produced renewable 91 octane gasoline that conforms to ASTM certification)