What is Renewable Petroleum technology?
LS9 has developed Renewable Petroleum technology to efficiently and economically produce DesignerBiofuels products by fermentation of renewable feedstocks. LS9 has engineered well-characterized industrial microorganisms to express previously undiscovered metabolic pathways that convert fatty acid intermediates to a diversity of petroleum products with >90% energetic efficiency – the highest efficiency of known biological routes to these compounds. This translates into efficient land and feedstock use and directly addresses tensions between food versus fuel production. From a production standpoint, LS9 products can be produced by processes similar to ethanol fermentations but with approximately 65% less energy input.
