E For Ethanol and Enzymes
Posted: June 21, 2008
The word “enzymes” was a key one at the CUTC this year and in fact, one whole session was devoted to it titled, “New developments and efficiencies in the world of enzymes.”
One of the speakers on that program was Elizabeth Hood, Arkansas State University. I spoke to her about her presentation. She’s a plant biotechnologist with a small start up company. They produce enzymes for biomass conversion. Her talk was about the work their doing that uses the corn kernel as the bio-factory for making enzymes. She’s hoping that this will be a co-product for ethanol production.
Elizabeth says it will be about 12 to 16 months until they have commercial products and that they’ve been working on the project for about 7 years.
You can listen to my interview with Elizabeth here: