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August 11, 2008 | Jim Lane | Comments 0

California researchers develop higher-efficiency cellulosic conversion into furfural biofuel

californiaIn California, researchers at the University of California at Davis have discovered a process to convert cellulose into furfural, an alternative biofuel, that they say is a more efficient conversion process than fermentation. The researchers say that their process yields 5-methylfurfural, a biofuel, in a single step process.

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