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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2011
James C. Liao, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Kwang Myung Cho, Los Angeles, CA (US);
James C. Liao, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Kwang Myung Cho, Los Angeles, CA (US);
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosure provides a process that converts COto higher alcohols (e.g. isobutanol) using electricity as the energy source. This process stores electricity (e.g. from solar energy, nuclear energy, and the like) in liquid fuels that can be used as high octane number gasoline substitutes. Instead of deriving reducing power from photosynthesis, this process derives reducing power from electrically generated mediators, either Hor formate. Hcan be derived from electrolysis of water. Formate can be generated by electrochemical reduction of CO. After delivering the reducing power in the cell, formate becomes COand recycles back. Therefore, the biological COfixation process can occur in the dark.