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Lidstrom, Beck Team awarded ARPA-E Award

LidstromThe Department of Energy's ARPA-E program announced November 28 that a team led by Chemical Engineering's Jungers Professor Mary Lidstrom, and including Research Assistant Professor David Beck, will develop microbes that convert methane found in natural gas into liquid diesel fuel. These microbes enable small-scale gas-to-liquid conversion at lower cost than current methods, which require infrastructure that is too expensive to deploy at smaller scales. Small-scale conversion would leverage abundant, domestic natural gas resources and reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil. The project is entitled "Biocatalyst for Small-Scale Conversion of Natural Gas into Diesel Fuel".