Take the sweet sugar in your kitchen, and imagine turning this into something that could fuel your car. A team of chemical engineers at UW think they finally found a way to do just that.
“It has the same energy density as gasoline, so 40-percent more than ethanol,” said grad student and team member Yuriy Roman Leshkov.
“So we’re making a fuel that’s superior to ethanol and biodiesel,” said fellow researcher Chris Barrett. The two worked under the leadership of professor James Dumesic, who’s findings were reported earlier this month in the journal ‘Nature.’