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Wang XL, Sun YQ, Pan DT, Xiu ZL. Kinetics-based development of two-stage continuous fermentation of 1,3-propanediol from crude glycerol by Clostridium butyricum. BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS AND BIOPRODUCTS 2024; 17:38. [PMID: 38454489 PMCID: PMC10921705 DOI: 10.1186/s13068-024-02486-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2023] [Accepted: 03/01/2024] [Indexed: 03/09/2024]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Glycerol, as a by-product, mainly derives from the conversion of many crops to biodiesel, ethanol, and fatty ester. Its bioconversion to 1,3-propanediol (1,3-PDO) is an environmentally friendly method. Continuous fermentation has many striking merits over fed-batch and batch fermentation, such as high product concentration with easy feeding operation, long-term high productivity without frequent seed culture, and energy-intensive sterilization. However, it is usually difficult to harvest high product concentrations. RESULTS In this study, a three-stage continuous fermentation was firstly designed to produce 1,3-PDO from crude glycerol by Clostridium butyricum, in which the first stage fermentation was responsible for providing the excellent cells in a robust growth state, the second stage focused on promoting 1,3-PDO production, and the third stage aimed to further boost the 1,3-PDO concentration and reduce the residual glycerol concentration as much as possible. Through the three-stage continuous fermentation, 80.05 g/L 1,3-PDO as the maximum concentration was produced while maintaining residual glycerol of 5.87 g/L, achieving a yield of 0.48 g/g and a productivity of 3.67 g/(L·h). Based on the 14 sets of experimental data from the first stage, a kinetic model was developed to describe the intricate relationships among the concentrations of 1,3-PDO, substrate, biomass, and butyrate. Subsequently, this kinetic model was used to optimize and predict the highest 1,3-PDO productivity of 11.26 g/(L·h) in the first stage fermentation, while the glycerol feeding concentration and dilution rate were determined to be 92 g/L and 0.341 h-1, separately. Additionally, to achieve a target 1,3-PDO production of 80 g/L without the third stage fermentation, the predicted minimum volume ratio of the second fermenter to the first one was 11.9. The kinetics-based two-stage continuous fermentation was experimentally verified well with the predicted results. CONCLUSION A novel three-stage continuous fermentation and a kinetic model were reported. Then a simpler two-stage continuous fermentation was developed based on the optimization of the kinetic model. This kinetics-based development of two-stage continuous fermentation could achieve high-level production of 1,3-PDO. Meanwhile, it provides a reference for other bio-chemicals production by applying kinetics to optimize multi-stage continuous fermentation.
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- Xiao-Li Wang
- MOE Key Laboratory of Bio-Intelligent Manufacturing, School of Bioengineering, Dalian University of Technology, No. 2 Linggong Road, Ganjingzi District, Dalian, 116024, Liaoning, People's Republic of China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bio-Intelligent Manufacturing, School of Bioengineering, Dalian University of Technology, No. 2 Linggong Road, Ganjingzi District, Dalian, 116024, Liaoning, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Information and Engineering, Shenyang University of Chemical Technology, Shenyang, 110142, Liaoning, People's Republic of China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bio-Intelligent Manufacturing, School of Bioengineering, Dalian University of Technology, No. 2 Linggong Road, Ganjingzi District, Dalian, 116024, Liaoning, People's Republic of China.
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Agrawal D, Budakoti M, Kumar V. Strategies and tools for the biotechnological valorization of glycerol to 1, 3-propanediol: Challenges, recent advancements and future outlook. Biotechnol Adv 2023; 66:108177. [PMID: 37209955 DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2023.108177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2023] [Revised: 05/10/2023] [Accepted: 05/17/2023] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
Abstract
Global efforts towards decarbonization, environmental sustainability, and a growing impetus for exploiting renewable resources such as biomass have spurred the growth and usage of bio-based chemicals and fuels. In light of such developments, the biodiesel industry will likely flourish, as the transport sector is taking several initiatives to attain carbon-neutral mobility. However, this industry would inevitably generate glycerol as an abundant waste by-product. Despite being a renewable organic carbon source and assimilated by several prokaryotes, presently realizing glycerol-based biorefinery is a distant reality. Among several platform chemicals such as ethanol, lactic acid, succinic acid, 2, 3-butanediol etc. 1, 3-propanediol (1, 3-PDO) is the only chemical naturally produced by fermentation with glycerol as a native substrate. The recent commercialization of glycerol-based 1, 3-PDO by Metabolic Explorer, France, has revived research interests in developing alternate cost-competitive, scalable and marketable bioprocesses. The current review outlines natural glycerol assimilating and 1, 3-PDO-producing microbes, their metabolic pathways, and associated genes. Later, technical barriers are carefully examined, such as the direct use of industrial glycerol as input material and genetic and metabolic issues related to microbes alleviating their industrial use. Biotechnological interventions exploited in the past five years, which can substantially circumvent these challenges, such as microbial bioprospecting, mutagenesis, metabolic, evolutionary and bioprocess engineering, including their combinations, are discussed in detail. The concluding section sheds light on some of the emerging and most promising breakthroughs which have resulted in evolving new, efficient, and robust microbial cell factories and/or bioprocesses for glycerol-based 1, 3-PDO production.
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- Deepti Agrawal
- Biochemistry and Biotechnology Area, Material Resource Efficiency Division, CSIR- Indian Institute of Petroleum, Mohkampur, Dehradun 248005, India; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR-HRDG Campus, Postal Staff College Area, Sector 19, Kamla Nehru Nagar, Ghaziabad 201002, India.
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- Biochemistry and Biotechnology Area, Material Resource Efficiency Division, CSIR- Indian Institute of Petroleum, Mohkampur, Dehradun 248005, India; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR-HRDG Campus, Postal Staff College Area, Sector 19, Kamla Nehru Nagar, Ghaziabad 201002, India
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- Centre for Climate and Environmental Protection, School of Water, Energy and Environment, Cranfield University, Cranfield MK43 0AL, UK
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Sun Y, Liang L, Zheng Y, Han J, Xiu Z. Improvement of 1,3-propanediol production from crude glycerol by co-cultivation of anaerobic and facultative microbes under non-strictly anaerobic conditions. BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS AND BIOPRODUCTS 2022; 15:40. [PMID: 35490247 PMCID: PMC9055712 DOI: 10.1186/s13068-022-02143-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2021] [Accepted: 04/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Abstract
Background
Natural microbial consortia could efficiently produce 1,3-propanediol (1,3-PDO), a most promising bulk biochemical derived from glycerol that can be used as a monomer in the synthesis of polytrimethylene terephthalate (PTT). While natural microbial communities are made up of a diverse range of microbes with frequently unknown functions, the construction of synthetic microbial consortia allows for the creation of more defined systems with lower complexity.
Results
In this study, the synthetic microbial consortia were constructed by combining facultative microbes of Klebsiella pneumoniae DUT2 (KP) and/or Escherichia coli DUT3 (EC) cultures with the strictly anaerobic microbe of Clostridium butyricum DUT1 (CB) cultures under micro-aerobic conditions. The function of EC and KP during the fermentation process was to deplete oxygen and create an anaerobic environment for CB. Furthermore, KP competes with CB for the consumption of crude glycerol and the production of 1,3-PDO. The interaction of commensalism and competition resulted in the construction of synthetic microbial consortia capable of efficiently converting crude glycerol to 1,3-PDO even under micro-aerobic conditions. In a batch fermentation, the synthetic CB:KP co-culture at an initial abundance ratio of 92.5:7.5, yielded a maximum 1,3-PDO concentration of 52.08 g/L, with a yield of 0.49 g/g and a productivity of 1.80 g/(L.h), which increased by 10%, 9%, and 12%, respectively, when compared to the CB mono-culture under strictly anaerobic conditions. The final 1,3-PDO concentration, yield, and productivity by the synthetic CB:KP consortia increased by 16%, 19%, and 84%, respectively, when compared to the KP mono-culture. At an initial abundance ratio of 85:7.5:7.5, the synthetic CB:KP:EC co-culture achieved the highest 1,3-PDO flux of 49.17%, while 7.43%, 5.77%, 3.15% 4.24%, and 2.13% of flux was distributed to butyric acid, acetic acid, lactic acid, ethanol, and succinic acid pathways. In a fed-batch fermentation, the synthetic CB:KP:EC co-culture demonstrated a maximum 1,3-PDO concentration of 77.68 g/L with a yield of 0.51 g/g which is 30% and 13% higher than the production by the CB mono-culture at 0.02 vvm (nitrogen volume/culture volume/min) N2 supply. The initial abundance of CB, which is guaranteed to be at least 85%, enables efficient 1,3-PDO production from crude glycerol via the development of synthetic microbial consortia.
Conclusion
The synthetic microbial consortia demonstrated excellent performance on 1,3-propanediol production under micro-aerobic conditions through the interaction of commensalism and competition. The experimental results demonstrated the potential benefit of using synthetic microbial consortia to produce 1,3-propanediol from crude glycerol.
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Zhang C, Sharma S, Ma C, Zeng AP. Strain evolution and novel downstream processing with integrated catalysis enable highly efficient co-production of 1,3-Propanediol and organic acid esters from crude glycerol. Biotechnol Bioeng 2022; 119:1450-1466. [PMID: 35234295 DOI: 10.1002/bit.28070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2021] [Revised: 01/05/2022] [Accepted: 02/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Bioconversion of natural microorganisms generally results in a mixture of various compounds. Downstream processing (DSP) which only targets a single product often lacks economic competitiveness due to incomplete use of raw material and high cost of waste treatment for by-products. Here, we show with the efficient microbial conversion of crude glycerol by an artificially evolved strain and how a catalytic conversion strategy can improve the total products yield and process economy of the DSP. Specifically, Clostridium pasteurianum was first adapted to increased concentration of crude glycerol in a novel automatic laboratory evolution system. At m3 scale bioreactor the strain achieved a simultaneous production of 1,3-propanediol (PDO), acetic and butyric acids at 81.21, 18.72 and 11.09 g/L within only 19 h, respectively, representing the most efficient fermentation of crude glycerol to targeted products. A heterogeneous catalytic step was developed and integrated into the DSP process to obtain high-value methyl esters from acetic and butyric acids at high yields. The co-production of the esters also greatly simplified the recovery of PDO. For example, a cosmetic grade PDO (96% PDO) was easily obtained by a simple single-stage distillation process (with an overall yield more than 77%). This integrated approach provides an industrially attractive route for the simultaneous production of three appealing products from the crude glycerol fermentation broth, which greatly improve the process economy and ecology. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
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- Chijian Zhang
- Institute of Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering, Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany.,Hua An Tang Biotech Group Co., Ltd, Guangzhou, China
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- Institute of Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering, Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute of Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering, Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute of Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering, Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany
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Isolation and characterization of a newly identified Clostridium butyricum strain SCUT343-4 for 1,3-propanediol production. Bioprocess Biosyst Eng 2021; 44:2375-2385. [PMID: 34231034 DOI: 10.1007/s00449-021-02610-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2021] [Accepted: 07/01/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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A novel 1,3-propanediol (1,3-PDO) producing strain was isolated and identified as Clostridium butyricum with respect to its morphological and physiological characteristics, as well as 16S rDNA. The results of substrates test and stress tolerance indicated that C. butyricum SCUT343-4 could produce 1,3-PDO efficiently from glycerol. The optimal fermentation conditions were determined to be 5 g/L yeast extract at 37 °C and pH 6.5. To fully evaluate its 1,3-PDO production capacity, different cultivation strategies have been implemented. The highest 1,3-PDO concentration obtained for batch and fed-batch fermentation were 51.64 and 61.30 g/L, respectively. Immobilized cell fermentation in fibrous-bed bioreactor was also performed, and the concentration of 1,3-PDO further increased to 86 g/L with a yield of 0.52 g/g. In addition, the 1,3-PDO productivity reached 4.20 g/L h, which is the highest level reported for C. butyricum, demonstrating the potential of C. butyricum SCUT343-4 for 1,3-PDO production from glycerol.
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Wang W, Yu X, Wei Y, Ledesma-Amaro R, Ji XJ. Reprogramming the metabolism of Klebsiella pneumoniae for efficient 1,3-propanediol production. Chem Eng Sci 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2021.116539] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Zhang Y, Li Z, Liu Y, Cen X, Liu D, Chen Z. Systems metabolic engineering of Vibrio natriegens for the production of 1,3-propanediol. Metab Eng 2021; 65:52-65. [PMID: 33722653 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2021.03.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2020] [Revised: 02/28/2021] [Accepted: 03/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
Abstract
The economic viability of current bio-production systems is often limited by its low productivity due to slow cell growth and low substrate uptake rate. The fastest-growing bacterium Vibrio natriegens is a highly promising next-generation workhorse of the biotechnology industry which can utilize various industrially relevant carbon sources with high substrate uptake rates. Here, we demonstrate the first systematic engineering example of V. natriegens for the heterologous production of 1,3-propanediol (1,3-PDO) from glycerol. Systems metabolic engineering strategies have been applied in this study to develop a superior 1,3-PDO producer, including: (1) heterologous pathway construction and optimization; (2) engineering cellular transcriptional regulators and global transcriptomic analysis; (3) enhancing intracellular reducing power by cofactor engineering; (4) reducing the accumulation of toxic intermediate by pathway engineering; (5) systematic engineering of glycerol oxidation pathway to eliminate byproduct formation. A final engineered strain can efficiently produce 1,3-PDO with a titer of 56.2 g/L, a yield of 0.61 mol/mol, and an average productivity of 2.36 g/L/h. The strategies described in this study would be useful for engineering V. natriegens as a potential chassis for the production of other useful chemicals and biofuels.
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- Ye Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Industrial Biocatalysis (Ministry of Education), Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Biocatalysis (Ministry of Education), Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Biocatalysis (Ministry of Education), Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Biocatalysis (Ministry of Education), Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Biocatalysis (Ministry of Education), Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China; Tsinghua Innovation Center in Dongguan, Dongguan, 523808, China; Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Biocatalysis (Ministry of Education), Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China; Tsinghua Innovation Center in Dongguan, Dongguan, 523808, China; Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.
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Zhang AH, Zhu KY, Zhuang XY, Liao LX, Huang SY, Yao CY, Fang BS. A robust soft sensor to monitor 1,3-propanediol fermentation process by Clostridium butyricum based on artificial neural network. Biotechnol Bioeng 2020; 117:3345-3355. [PMID: 32678455 DOI: 10.1002/bit.27507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2020] [Accepted: 07/15/2020] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
Abstract
With the aggravation of environmental pollution and energy crisis, the sustainable microbial fermentation process of converting glycerol to 1,3-propanediol (1,3-PDO) has become an attractive alternative. However, the difficulty in the online measurement of glycerol and 1,3-PDO creates a barrier to the fermentation process and then leads to the residual glycerol and therefore, its wastage. Thus, in the present study, the four-input artificial neural network (ANN) model was developed successfully to predict the concentration of glycerol, 1,3-PDO, and biomass with high accuracy. Moreover, an ANN model combined with a kinetic model was also successfully developed to simulate the fed-batch fermentation process accurately. Hence, a soft sensor from the ANN model based on NaOH-related parameters has been successfully developed which cannot only be applied in software to solve the difficulty of glycerol and 1,3-PDO online measurement during the industrialization process, but also offer insight and reference for similar fermentation processes.
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- Ai-Hui Zhang
- Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China
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- Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China
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- Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China
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- Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China
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- Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China
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- Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China.,The Key Lab for Synthetic Biotechnology of Xiamen City, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China
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- Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China.,The Key Lab for Synthetic Biotechnology of Xiamen City, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China.,The Key Laboratory for Chemical Biology of Fujian Province, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China.,The National Engineering Laboratory for Green Chemical Productions of Alcohols-Ethers-Esters, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China
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Zhang A, Huang S, Zhuang X, Wang K, Yao C, Fang B. A novel kinetic model to describe 1,3‐propanediol production fermentation by
Clostridium butyricum. AIChE J 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/aic.16587] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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- Ai‐Hui Zhang
- Dept. of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Xiamen University Xiamen China
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- Dept. of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Xiamen University Xiamen China
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- Dept. of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Xiamen University Xiamen China
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- Dept. of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Xiamen University Xiamen China
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- Dept. of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Xiamen University Xiamen China
- The Key Lab for Synthetic Biotechnology of Xiamen City Xiamen University Xiamen Fujian China
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- Dept. of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Xiamen University Xiamen China
- The Key Lab for Synthetic Biotechnology of Xiamen City Xiamen University Xiamen Fujian China
- The National Engineering Laboratory for Green Chemical Productions of Alcohols‐Ethers‐Esters Xiamen University Xiamen Fujian China
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