We have published a new paper in Energy & Environmental Science on an integrated process for producing biofuels using bio-compatible ionic liquid pretreatment and reversible pH-adjustment with CO2.

Paper: http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2016/ee/c6ee00913a

LBNL press release – http://newscenter.lbl.gov/2016/07/21/co2-ionic-liquid-biofuel-pretreatment/

Researchers at JBEI are studying the use of CO2 to streamline the production of biofuel. From left, Feng Xu, Corinne Scown, Tanmoy Dutta, Seema Singh, Jian ‘James’ Sun, Blake Simmons and Murthy Konda. (Credit: Arthur H. Panganiban/JBEI at Berkeley Lab)