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.
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)