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Run your car on whisky leftovers


Greenpages reports that Scottish researchers have found a new source of biofuel without needing to grow dedicated crops. The £4bn whisky industry (almost $7bn AUD) is a ripe resource for developing biobutanol – the next generation of biofuel that gives 30% more output power than ethanol.
 
They are using the two main by-products of the whisky production process: ‘pot ale’, the liquid from the copper stills, and ‘draff’, the spent grains, as the basis for producing the butanol that can then be used as fuel. With 1,600 million litres of pot ale and 187,000 tonnes of draff produced by the malt whisky industry annually, there is real potential for bio-fuel to be available at local garages alongside traditional fuels.
 
Unlike ethanol, the nature of the innovative biofuel means that ordinary cars could use the more powerful fuel instead of traditional petrol. The product can also be used to make other green renewable biochemicals, such as acetone.
 
Professor Martin Tangney, director of the Biofuel Research Centre at Edinburgh Napier University, is leading the ground-breaking research. He says that “The EU has declared that biofuels should account for 10% of total fuel sales by 2020. We’re committed to finding new, innovative renewable energy sources. While some energy companies are growing crops specifically to generate biofuel, we are investigating excess materials such as whisky by-products to develop them. This is a more environmentally sustainable option and potentially offers new revenue on the back of one Scotland’s biggest industries. We’ve worked with some of the country’s leading whisky producers to develop the process.”
 
The technology for developing biofuel from whisky was inspired from a 100-year-old process, created by Chaim Weizmann, a Jewish refugee chemist in Manchester who studied the butanol fermentation initially as part of a programme to produce rubber synthetically.

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