Download or read book Butanol Production from Lignocellulosic Feedstocks by Acetone butanol ethanol Fermentation with Integrated Product Recovery written by Congcong Lu and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: n-Butanol has been attracting research attention as a liquid biofuel recently, in addition to its current application as an industrial chemical and solvent. With the concerns of diminishing fossil reserves, environmental issues caused by greenhouse gas emission, and unstable supply and price spike of crude oil, renewed interest has returned to pursue biobutanol production through acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation as opposed to petrochemically-derived butanol. However, the conventional ABE fermentation suffers from many limitations, including low butanol titer, high cost of traditional food-based raw materials, end-product inhibition and high butanol recovery cost by distillation, which negatively impacts the process efficiency and economics. Fortunately, these hurdles are being overcome by technological advances on ABE fermentation in the past few decades. Research on genetic modifications and chemical mutation of solventogenic Clostridia has focused on obtaining mutant strains with enhanced butanol producing ability. Adequate research success in utilizing renewable and sustainable lignocellulosic biomass has identified a novel group of cost-effective feedstocks for ABE fermentation in replacement of the traditional costly starch and sugar-based substrates. Novel fed-batch and continuous fermentation processes with cell immobilization and cell recycle have been developed for more efficient substrate conversion and butanol production. When further integrated with alternative energy-efficient butanol recovery techniques, such as gas stripping and pervaporation, the integrated ABE fermentation process can achieve high overall butanol production, reactor productivity, sugar conversion, and simplified downstream separation. Therefore, the overall goal of this project was to develop a process to produce butanol through ABE fermentation by hyper-butanol-producing mutants using lignocellulosic biomass, and integrate online product recovery to achieve enhanced overall butanol production and process efficiency. Corn fiber, cassava bagasse, wood pulp and sugarcane bagasse were investigated as potential feedstocks for butanol production from ABE fermentation, and gas stripping as the online butanol recovery technique was evaluated and integrated with ABE fermentation. In batch fermentations, immobilized mutant strain C. beijerinckii JB 200 produced 12.7 g/L and 15.4 g/L ABE from corn fiber hydrolysate and cassava bagasse hydrolysate in a fibrous bed bioreactor, respectively. C. beijerinckii CC101 produced 11.35 g/L ABE from wood pulp hydrolysate, and its recombinant mutant CC101-SV6 produced 9.44 g/L ABE from sugarcane bagasse hydrolysate in free-cell batch fermentations. ABE production from wood pulp hydrolysate was further enhanced to 17.73 g/L in a gas stripping integrated ABE batch fermentation process, with a higher ABE yield of 0.44 g/g compared with 0.39 g/g from non-integrated batch process. Concentrated cassava bagasse hydrolysate containing 584.4 g/L glucose was utilized by C. beijerinckii JB 200 in an integrated fed-batch ABE fermentation process, and 90.3 g/L ABE were produced with a productivity of 0.53 g/L. h, which was further improved to 108.5 g/L with nutrient supplementation. This project demonstrated that butanol can be produced from various lignocellulosic feedstocks, from agricultural biowastes to woody biomass residues. By employing mutant strains of solventogenic Clostridia bacteria, different fermentation modes, and online product recovery, an integrated process was developed for the production of n-butanol that can potentially replace petroleum-based butanol.
Download or read book Techno economic Analysis of Butanol Production Through Acetone butanol ethanol Fermentation written by Nawa Raj Baral and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Butanol is a next generation liquid biofuel, which can be produced through acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation using lignocelluloses including agricultural residues, forest residues, and energy crops. While butanol is superior to ethanol in terms of fuel properties, its commercial production is still encumbering due to low product yield, energy intensive recovery method and butanol toxicity to microbes. However, recent developments of simultaneous saccharification, fermentation and recovery techniques have potential to reduce these problems and improve butanol yield. Before commercial deployment, these recent developments on ABE fermentation technology require a thorough assessment of techno-economic feasibilities and bottlenecks. Thus, the main objective of this research was to assess the techno-economic feasibility of a biorefinery producing 113.5 million liters per year (30 million gallons per year) butanol through ABE fermentation. This study compared different components of butanol production system including feedstock supply logistics, pretreatment, fermentation and recovery, and stillage utilization methods. All the techno-economic models were developed in modeling software-SuperPro Designer. Different process and operating parameters for different components were gathered from existing literature and used as the main input to the models. Corn stover feedstock supply logistics cost ($/metric ton, dry) was estimated to be 112.1 when corn stover feedstock was assumed to be directly transported from field edge to biorefinery. This mode of feedstock transportation was found to be feasible for the biorefinery capacity considered in this study. Sulfuric acid pretreatment was found to be the most economic process with sugar production cost ($/kg) of 0.42 when compared to other most common pretreatment processes considered in this study such as steam explosion, ammonia fiber explosion, ionic liquid and biological. Based on current state of these different recovery methods, such as conventional distillation, vacuum recovery, gas stripping and liquid-liquid extraction, the lower butanol production cost ($/L) of 1.27 ($1.54/L-gasoline equivalent) was found under gas stripping recovery method. Other recovery methods require further research and development efforts to be competitive with gas stripping. Moreover, estimated stillage processing cost ($/L-butanol produced) of direct combustion system and fast pyrolysis system were found to be 0.15 and 0.17, respectively. Based on current state of technology, stillage utilization with direct combustion was found to be an economic stillage utilization method due to the lower stillage utilization cost. Integrating the most economic options discussed so far, the butanol production cost ($/L) at 95 % confidence interval was found to be 0.69-1.57 and 1.34-2.53 with and without considering byproducts’ credit, respectively. Energy conversion efficiency for the overall butanol production process was about 53.83 %. With further improvement in butanol yield of 30 g/100 g fermentable sugars, 98 wt% butanol recovery, glucose and xylose yield of 90 g/100 g initial glucan and xylan, feedstock supply cost of $64/metric ton (dry) and commercial selling value for acetone of $0.79/L, butanol production cost through ABE fermentation could be reduced to $0.47/L-butanol ($0.57/L-gasoline equivalent). This cost is very optimistic at present state of technology, which requires further research and development efforts to be economically competitive with last two years average corn ethanol cost of $0.37/L ($0.55/L-gasoline equivalent) and last 15 years average gasoline price of $0.65/L.
Download or read book Integrated Process for Microbial Solvent Production from Whey Permeate Final Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acetone and butanol were historically produced through fermentation of carbohydrate raw materials. Conventional feedstocks such as grain and molasses, and the energy required to recover products by distillation, are too costly for traditional batch fermentation to compete with petrochemical synthesis. The authors proposed to evaluate an acetone-butanol-ethanol fermentation of acid whey permeate, a cheap carbohydrate source, using up-to-date bioreactor technology continuous fermentation with cell recycle and in-situ butanol recovery by gas stripping. Clostridium acetobutylicum P262 was the strain chosen, as it assimilates both the lactose and lactic acid in acid whey. Single-stage continuous culture proved unsuitable for butanol production, since productivity is low and cultures degenerated quickly. Two-stage culture improved productivity by a factor of two over batch runs. All continuous cultures showed major oscillations in cell density, substrate concentration and products formed. Under these conditions, cell recycle did not affect productivity in two-stage culture. Gas stripping with fermentor off-gases recovered a clean condensate of butanol and acetone at 70--90% yield and with purification factors of 14 to 35. Stripping maintained solvent concentrations in the range of 2--4 g/l even at the peak of solventogenesis, eliminating product inhibition. Gas stripping produced a 50% improvement in substrate uptake and a 10--20% improvement in solvent productivity.
Download or read book Engineering Microbial Fermentations written by Zachary Cardwell Baer and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The batch fermentation of simple sugars to ethanol has thus far been the most successful process to displace transportation fuel consumption worldwide. However, the physical properities of ethanol limit its application in most of the world beyond 10-15 vol% blends with conventional gasoline. Additionally, ethanol is too volatile to be blended at an appreciable level with jet and diesel fuels. Alternative technologies are necessary to produce compounds that can be blended in all forms of transportation fuel and to higher levels. The biological production of longer chain oxygenates or hydrocarbons has been purposed to address this challenge. However, the increased toxicity of these molecules has limited their usefulness to-date. Alternatively, chemocatalytic routes to produce these fuel molecules do not suffer from toxicity issues but the highly functional saccharide-based feedstocks result in undesirable by-product formation and yield losses. We propose that by effectively combining these biological and chemocatalytic approaches efficient production of all classes of transportation fuels can be achieved. Clostridium acetobutylicum is a well-studied industrial bacterium capable of fermenting a wide-variety of saccharides into a mixture of acetone, butanol, and ethanol (ABE). These mixed products contain functionalities that are amenable to C-C bond formation through transition-metal catalysis. Thus enabling the production of a suite of long-chain oxygenates from a variety of sugar substrates. This dissertation describes three major topics associated with the integration biological and chemocatalytic processes for fuel production: (1) the initial discovery and evaluation of such a combined process, (2) tailoring the fermentation products and catalyst to favor diesel production, and (3) engineering tunable ethanol and acetone co-production in Escherichia coli. Additionally, a thorough and reproducible protocol describing both biological and chemocatalytic procedures are provided. Acetone, a product of the acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation, harbors a nucleophilic [alpha]-carbon, which is amenable to C-C bond formation with the electrophilic alcohols (ethanol and n-butanol) produced in ABE fermentation. This functionality enables the formation of higher molecular weight hydrocarbons similar to those found in current gasoline, jet, and diesel fuels. Using a palladium-catalyzed alkylation reaction efficient conversion of ABE fermentation products into ketones, ranging from 2-pentanone to 6-undecanone was achieved. Tuning of the reaction conditions permits production of either predominately gasoline or jet and diesel precursors. Glyceryl tributyrate was identified as a suitable extractant for selective in situ removal of both acetone and alcohols. Enabling simple integration of ABE fermentation and water sensitive chemical catalysis, while reducing the energy demand of the overall process. Additionally, extractive fermentation with glyceryl tributyrate removed several lignocellulosic-derived pretreatment inhibitors completely restoring solvent production titers. Tailoring both the biological fermentation and chemocatalytic reaction conditions predictably increased the production of sustainable diesel blendstocks from lignocellulosic sugar. More specifically, engineering the metabolism of C. acetobutylicum to produce isopropanol-butanol-ethanol (IBE) as opposed to ABE by expression of the secondary alcohol dehydrogenase (sadh) from C. beijerinckii strain B593. Coupled with the optimization of a more water-resistant alkylation catalyst, hydrotalcite-supported copper(II) or palladium (0). Furthermore, in silco predictions of extraction efficiency using COSMO-RS were employed to identify oleyl alcohol as a superior extractant for in situ removal of IBE. To achieve highly controllable acetone and ethanol production both metabolic and fermentation engineering approaches were employed. Strains capable of producing acetone without carboxylic acid reassimilation through a newly described pathway were developed. Furthermore, a more oxidized sugar-acid (gluconic acid) was used to drive production of acetone through redox balancing of NADH, predicatively reducing the molar ethanol:acetone ratio. Increases in the molar ethanol:acetone ratio were also described by the co-expression of either the aldehyde/alcohol dehydrogenase (adhE) from E. coli MG1655 or pyruvate decarboxylase (pdc) and alcohol dehydrogenase (adhB) from Z. mobilis. Acetone titers reached wild-type C. acetobutylicum levels by controlling the fermentation sparge rate and pH in a bioreactor. Finally, catalytic strategies to upgrade the co-produced ethanol and acetone at both low and high molar ratios are described. By leveraging the advantages of both biological fermentation and chemocatalytic reactions of fermentation products with well-defined functionality we are able to efficiently convert a variety of saccharides into long-chain oxygenates. These long-chain oxygenates can be blended with all forms of transportation fuels. Additionally, tuning the microorganism's metabolism, fermentation conditions, catalysis reaction, or all of the above can optimize the production for a specific class of fuel. The integration of mixed-product fermentation with chemical catalysis is thus a novel and potentially enabling route for the economical conversion of biomass into liquid transportation fuels.
Download or read book In Situ Product Recovery of Butanol from the Acetone Butanol Ethanol Fermentation written by Victoria Outram and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Product Recovery Optimization in the Acetone butanol ethanol Fermentation written by David Lee Vrana and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Second and Third Generation of Feedstocks written by Angelo Basile and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2019-03-23 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second and Third Generation of Feedstocks: The Evolution of Biofuels presents a critical analysis of both the applications and potential of bioenergy production from second and third generation feedstocks. The book illustrates different aspects of the processes used for the production of biofuels, dealing specifically with second and third generation feedstocks from biomass and algae. The pretreatment of feedstocks and optimization of various forms of bioenergy are considered, along with the economic aspects of the various processes. In the last few years, industrial research efforts have focused on low cost, large-scale processing for lignocellulosic feedstocks originating from agricultural residues and municipal wastes for bioenergy production. This book shares an insight into the recent developments taking place in this industry, exploring transformation processes as well as biomass and algae conversions. Reviews existing lignocellulosic biomass feedstocks and their sources Includes processes for the conversion of various feedstocks to biofuels Discusses current research findings on second and third generation feedstocks Describes processes involved in the transformation of algal biomass into biofuels
Download or read book Liquid Biofuels written by Krushna Prasad Shadangi and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled by a well-known expert in the field, Liquid Biofuels provides a profound knowledge to researchers about biofuel technologies, selection of raw materials, conversion of various biomass to biofuel pathways, selection of suitable methods of conversion, design of equipment, selection of operating parameters, determination of chemical kinetics, reaction mechanism, preparation of bio-catalyst: its application in bio-fuel industry and characterization techniques, use of nanotechnology in the production of biofuels from the root level to its application and many other exclusive topics for conducting research in this area. Written with the objective of offering both theoretical concepts and practical applications of those concepts, Liquid Biofuels can be both a first-time learning experience for the student facing these issues in a classroom and a valuable reference work for the veteran engineer or scientist. The description of the detailed characterization methodologies along with the precautions required during analysis are extremely important, as are the detailed description about the ultrasound assisted biodiesel production techniques, aviation biofuels and its characterization techniques, advance in algal biofuel techniques, pre-treatment of biomass for biofuel production, preparation and characterization of bio-catalyst, and various methods of optimization. The book offers a comparative study between the various liquid biofuels obtained from different methods of production and its engine performance and emission analysis so that one can get the utmost idea to find the better biofuel as an alternative fuel. Since the book covers almost all the field of liquid biofuel production techniques, it will provide advanced knowledge to the researcher for practical applications across the energy sector. A valuable reference for engineers, scientists, chemists, and students, this volume is applicable to many different fields, across many different industries, at all levels. It is a must-have for any library.
Download or read book Advances and Developments in Biobutanol Production written by Juan Gabriel Segovia-Hernandez and published by Woodhead Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-19 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances and Developments in Biobutanol Production is a comprehensive reference on the production and purification of biobutanol, from the fundamentals to the latest advances. Focusing on selection of biomass, choice of pretreatments, biochemistry and design of fermentation, purification and biofuel application, the book also provides details on biorefinery design, lifecycle analysis, and offers perspectives on future developments. Through detailed analysis, chapters show readers how to overcome the challenges associated with the correct selection of raw material and adequate biomass pretreatment, the selection of microorganisms for fermenting biomass sugars, the purification of effluent coming from fermentation, and the high energy demands of production. Solutions are supported by step-by-step guidance on methodologies and processes, with lab and industry-scale case studies providing real-world examples of their implementation. This book provides readers with a unique and comprehensive reference on the production of biobutanol for biofuel that will be of interest to graduates, researchers and professionals involved in bioenergy and renewable energy. Presents a holistic approach to the production and purification of biobutanol and its use as the high-value bioproduct Provides solutions to the major challenges and bottlenecks in biobutanol production, including feedstock, pretreatment, purification, fermentation, high energy demand and recover costs Offers step-by-step guidance on processes and procedures and describes their applications alongside real-world case studies
Download or read book Extremophilic Microbial Processing of Lignocellulosic Feedstocks to Biofuels Value Added Products and Usable Power written by Rajesh K. Sani and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-02 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a review and in-depth analyses of improved biotechnological processes emphasizing critical aspects and challenges of lignocellulosic biomass conversion into biofuels and value-added products especially using extremophiles and recombinant microorganisms. The book specifically comprises extremophilic production of liquid and gaseous biofuels (bioethanol, biobutanol, biodiesel, biohydrogen, and biogas) as well as value added products (e.g. single cell protein, hydrocarbons, lipids, exopolysaccharides, and polyhydroxyalkanoates). The book also provides the knowledge on how to develop safe, more efficient, sustainable, and economical integrated processes for enhanced conversion of lignocellulosic feedstocks to liquid and gaseous biofuels. Finally the book describes how to perform the techno-economical and life-cycle assessments of new integrated processes involving extremophiles. These modeling exercises are critical in addressing any deficiencies associated with the demonstration of an integrated biofuels and value-added products production process at pilot scale as well as demonstration on the commercialization scale.
Download or read book High yield and High titer N Butanol Production from Lignocellulosic Feedstocks by Metabolically Engineered Clostridium Tyrobutyricum written by Yinming Du and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Due to growing concerns over global warming issues, rapid depletion of fossil fuels, and increasing demand for domestic energy security, the development of advanced liquid fuels from abundant, renewable, and inexpensive raw materials has become more and more attractive. Butanol, a four-carbon alcohol, is now considered as a superior alternative transportation fuel to replace petroleum-based gasoline because its properties are very similar to gasoline. Traditionally, butanol is produced via acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation by solventogenic clostridia, which usually suffers from low butanol titer due to low butanol tolerance, low butanol yield due to acetone generation, as well as high substrate cost due to expensive raw materials. In this study, adhE2 over-expressing Clostridium tyrobutyricum mutants were used for high-yield, high-titer, and cost-effective butanol production from lignocellulosic feedstocks.
Download or read book Process Intensification and Integration for Sustainable Design written by Dominic C. Y. Foo and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents comprehensive coverage of process intensification and integration for sustainable design, along with fundamental techniques and experiences from the industry Drawing from fundamental techniques and recent industrial experiences, this book discusses the many developments in process intensification and integration and focuses on increasing sustainability via several overarching topics such as Sustainable Manufacturing, Energy Saving Technologies, and Resource Conservation and Pollution Prevention Techniques. Process Intensification and Integration for Sustainable Design starts discussions on: shale gas as an option for the production of chemicals and challenges for process intensification; the design and techno-economic analysis of separation units to handle feedstock variability in shale gas treatment; RO-PRO desalination; and techno-economic and environmental assessment of ultrathin polysulfone membranes for oxygen-enriched combustion. Next, it looks at process intensification of membrane-based systems for water, energy, and environment applications; the design of internally heat-integrated distillation column (HIDiC); and graphical analysis and integration of heat exchanger networks with heat pumps. Decomposition and implementation of large-scale interplant heat integration is covered, as is the synthesis of combined heat and mass exchange networks (CHAMENs) with renewables. The book also covers optimization strategies for integrating and intensifying housing complexes; a sustainable biomass conversion process assessment; and more. Covers the many advances and changes in process intensification and integration Provides side-by-side discussions of fundamental techniques and recent industrial experiences to guide practitioners in their own processes Presents comprehensive coverage of topics relevant, among others, to the process industry, biorefineries, and plant energy management Offers insightful analysis and integration of reactor and heat exchanger network Looks at optimization of integrated water and multi-regenerator membrane systems involving multi-contaminants Process Intensification and Integration for Sustainable Design is an ideal book for process engineers, chemical engineers, engineering scientists, engineering consultants, and chemists.
Download or read book Extractive Fermentation lactic Acid and Acetone butanol Production written by Steve Ronald Roffler and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Multi objective Optimization of Butanol Production During ABE Fermentation written by Aida Sharif Rohani and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liquid biofuels produced from biomass have the potential to partly replace gasoline. One of the most promising biofuels is butanol which is produced in acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation. The ABE fermentation is characterized by its low butanol concentration in the final fermentation broth. In this research, the simulation of three in situ recovery methods, namely, vacuum fermentation, gas stripping and pervaporation, were performed in order to increase the efficiency of the continuous ABE fermentation by decreasing the effect of butanol toxicity. The non-integrated and integrated butanol production systems were simulated and optimized based on a number of objectives such as maximizing the butanol productivity, butanol concentration, and butanol yield. In the optimization of complex industrial processes, where objectives are often conflicting, there exist numerous potentially-optimal solutions which are best obtained using multi-objective optimization (MOO). In this investigation, MOO was used to generate a set of alternative solutions, known as the Pareto domain. The Pareto domain allows to view very clearly the trade-offs existing between the various objective functions. In general, an increase in the butanol productivity resulted in a decrease of butanol yield and sugar conversion. To find the best solution within the Pareto domain, a ranking algorithm (Net Flow Method) was used to rank the solutions based on a set of relative weights and three preference thresholds. Comparing the best optimal solutions in each case study, it was clearly shown that integrating a recovery method with the ABE fermentation significantly increases the overall butanol concentration, butanol productivity, and sugar conversion, whereas butanol yield being microorganism-dependent, remains relatively constant.
Download or read book Recent Advancements in Biofuels and Bioenergy Utilization written by Prakash Kumar Sarangi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-29 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concerns relating to global warming, climate change, and increasing energy demands have led to significant research towards the development of alternative energy to substitute the fossil energy sources. Biomass-based energy or biofuels are highly promising due to many perceptible environmental and socio-economic advantages. Cutting-edge academic research and advanced industrial product development have created tremendous scope for the implementation of biofuels at a global scale to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions and supplement the escalating energy demands. The prime focus of this book is to provide an overview of the different technologies utilized to harness the chemical energy from plant-based non-edible biomass and other organic wastes in the form of solid, liquid, and gaseous biofuels. The opportunities and challenges of different biomass conversion technologies, especially biomass-to-liquid, biomass-to-gas and gas-to-liquid routes, as well as biomass pretreatments, densification, anaerobic digestion, reforming, transesterification, supercritical fluid extraction, microalgal carbon sequestration, life-cycle assessment and techno-economic analysis have been comprehensively discussed in this book. This book is an amalgamation of fifteen different chapters each with distinctive investigations and a collective focus relating to the transition from fossil fuels towards carbon-neutral biofuels. This book serves as a benchmark for academic and industrial researchers involved in exploring the true potentials of plant residues and waste organic matter to produce alternative renewable fuels. To realize the real promises of bioenergy, this book attempts to assess the biorefining approaches, biofuel production and application, and environmental sustainability.
Download or read book N butanol Fermentation and Integrated Recovery Process written by Fanfang Liu and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This project demonstrated efficient butanol recovery by adsorption, gas stripping and pervaporation from both model solution and fermentation broth. In situ product recovery largely improved fermentative butanol production.
Download or read book Advanced Bioprocessing for Alternative Fuels Biobased Chemicals and Bioproducts written by Majid Hosseini and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2019-02-23 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advanced Bioprocessing for Alternative Fuels, Bio-based Chemicals, and Bioproducts: Technologies and Approaches for Scale-Up and Commercialization demonstrates novel systems that apply advanced bioprocessing technologies to produce biofuels, bio-based chemicals, and value-added bioproducts from renewable sources. The book presents the use of novel oleaginous microorganisms and utilization strategies for applications of advanced bioprocessing technology in biofuels production and thoroughly depicts the technological breakthroughs of value added bioproducts. It also aides in the design, evaluation and production of biofuels by describing metabolic engineering and genetic manipulation of biofuels feedstocks. Users will find a thorough overview of the most recent discoveries in biofuels research and the inherent challenges associated with scale up. Emphasis is placed on technological milestones and breakthroughs in applications of new bioprocessing technologies for biofuels production. Its essential information can be used to understand how to incorporate advanced bioprocessing technologies into the scaling up of laboratory technologies to industrial applications while complying with biofuels policies and regulations. Presents the use of novel oleaginous microorganisms and utilization strategies for the applications of advanced technologies in biofuels production Provides a basis for technology assessments, progress and advances, as well as the challenges associated with biofuels at industrial scale Describes, in detail, technologies for metabolic engineering and genetic manipulation of biofuels feedstocks, thus aiding in the design, evaluation and production of advanced biofuels
