New techniques create butanol -- biofuel superior to ethanol

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Lars Angenent WUSTL environmental engineer in his Urbauer Hall laboratory. Angenent is part of a team using new techniques to produce the biofuel butanol.
Lars Angenent, WUSTL environmental engineer, in his Urbauer Hall laboratory. Angenent is part of a team using new techniques to produce the biofuel butanol.

A team of researchers headed by an environmental engineer at Washington University in St. Louis is plying new techniques to produce a biofuel superior to ethanol.


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