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Kumar S, Agyeman-Duah E, Ujor VC. Whole-Genome Sequence and Fermentation Characteristics of Enterobacter hormaechei UW0SKVC1: A Promising Candidate for Detoxification of Lignocellulosic Biomass Hydrolysates and Production of Value-Added Chemicals. Bioengineering (Basel) 2023; 10:1090. [PMID: 37760192 PMCID: PMC10525534 DOI: 10.3390/bioengineering10091090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2023] [Revised: 09/11/2023] [Accepted: 09/14/2023] [Indexed: 09/29/2023] Open
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Enterobacter hormaechei is part of the Enterobacter cloacae complex (ECC), which is widespread in nature. It is a facultative Gram-negative bacterium of medical and industrial importance. We assessed the metabolic and genetic repertoires of a new Enterobacter isolate. Here, we report the whole-genome sequence of a furfural- and 5-hydroxymethyl furfural (HMF)-tolerant strain of E. hormaechei (UW0SKVC1), which uses glucose, glycerol, xylose, lactose and arabinose as sole carbon sources. This strain exhibits high tolerance to furfural (IC50 = 34.2 mM; ~3.3 g/L) relative to Escherichia coli DH5α (IC50 = 26.0 mM; ~2.5 g/L). Furfural and HMF are predominantly converted to their less-toxic alcohols. E. hormaechei UW0SKVC1 produces 2,3-butanediol, acetoin, and acetol, among other compounds of industrial importance. E. hormaechei UW0SKVC1 produces as high as ~42 g/L 2,3-butanediol on 60 g/L glucose or lactose. The assembled genome consists of a 4,833,490-bp chromosome, with a GC content of 55.35%. Annotation of the assembled genome revealed 4586 coding sequences and 4516 protein-coding genes (average length 937-bp) involved in central metabolism, energy generation, biodegradation of xenobiotic compounds, production of assorted organic compounds, and drug resistance. E. hormaechei UW0SKVC1 shows considerable promise as a biocatalyst and a genetic repository of genes whose protein products may be harnessed for the efficient bioconversion of lignocellulosic biomass, abundant glycerol and lactose-replete whey permeate to value-added chemicals.
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- Metabolic Engineering and Fermentation Science Group, Department of Food Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Babcock Hall, 1605 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706, USA; (S.K.); (E.A.-D.)
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Kumar Dh L, Choudhury B. Monomethyl branched-chain fatty acids enriched bacterial oil production by furan aldehydes tolerant halophile Lentibacillus salarius strain BPIITR using non-detoxified sugarcane bagasse. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2023; 374:128787. [PMID: 36822558 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2023.128787] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2023] [Revised: 02/18/2023] [Accepted: 02/20/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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The structural diversity of monomethyl branched-chain fatty acids (mBCFAs) expanded their application in biolubricants, biofuels for enhancing cold flow and thermo-oxidative properties. Current study focuses on mBCFAs production from sugarcane bagasse hydrolysate in biorefinery approach with halophilic Lentibacillus salarius BPIITR. Halophilic bacterium exhibited tolerance towards furan aldehydes up to 150 mM in minimal medium and produced 3.40 ± 0.13 and 2.47 ± 0.15 gL-1 lipid rich in mBCFAs, in xylose and glucose rich non-detoxified hydrolysate, respectively at bench-scale bioreactor. In addition, 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid and 2-furancarboxylic acids were co-produced as value-added products up to 41.34 ± 4.73 and 59.84 ± 5.17 mM, respectively. The biosynthesized bacterial oil exhibited onset oxidation temperature of 319.5 °C and low temperature viscosity ratio of 2.92. The accumulated lipid was rich in triacylglycerol content more than 67 % with 12-methyl tetradecanoic acid as major fatty acid.
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- Lohith Kumar Dh
- Bioprocess Engineering Laboratory, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian, Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee 247667, Haridwar, India
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- Bioprocess Engineering Laboratory, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian, Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee 247667, Haridwar, India.
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Valorization of Hemp-Based Packaging Waste with One-Pot Ionic Liquid Technology. Molecules 2023; 28:molecules28031427. [PMID: 36771097 PMCID: PMC9919018 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28031427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2022] [Revised: 01/30/2023] [Accepted: 01/30/2023] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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The range of applications for industrial hemp has consistently increased in various sectors over the years. For example, hemp hurd can be used as a resource to produce biodegradable packaging materials when incorporated into a fungal mycelium composite, a process that has been commercialized. Although these packaging materials can be composted after usage, they may present an opportunity for valorization in a biorefinery setting. Here, we demonstrate the potential of using this type of discarded packaging composite as a feedstock for biofuel production. A one-pot ionic liquid-based biomass deconstruction and conversion process was implemented, and the results from the packaging material were compared with those obtained from untreated hemp hurd. At a 120 °C reaction temperature, 7.5% ionic liquid loading, and 2 h reaction time, the packaging materials showed a higher lignocellulosic sugar yield and sugar concentrations than hemp hurd. Hydrolysates prepared from packaging materials also promoted production of higher titers (1400 mg/L) of the jet-fuel precursor bisabolene when used to cultivate an engineered strain of the yeast Rhodosporidium toruloides. Box-Behnken experiments revealed that pretreatment parameters affected the hemp hurd and packaging materials differently, evidencing different degrees of recalcitrance. This study demonstrated that a hemp hurd-based packaging material can be valorized a second time once it reaches the end of its primary use by supplying it as a feedstock to produce biofuels.
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Ujor VC, Okonkwo CC. Microbial detoxification of lignocellulosic biomass hydrolysates: Biochemical and molecular aspects, challenges, exploits and future perspectives. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2022; 10:1061667. [PMID: 36483774 PMCID: PMC9723337 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2022.1061667] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2022] [Accepted: 10/31/2022] [Indexed: 08/26/2023] Open
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Valorization of lignocellulosic biomass (LB) has the potential to secure sustainable energy production without impacting food insecurity, whist relieving over reliance on finite fossil fuels. Agro-derived lignocellulosic residues such as wheat straw, switchgrass, rice bran, and miscanthus have gained relevance as feedstocks for the production of biofuels and chemicals. However, the microorganisms employed in fermentative conversion of carbohydrates to fuels and chemicals are unable to efficiently utilize the sugars derived from LB due to co-production of lignocellulose-derived microbial inhibitory compounds (LDMICs) during LB pretreatment. LDMICs impact microbial growth by inhibition of specific enzymes, cause DNA and cell membrane damage, and elicit cellular redox imbalance. Over the past decade, success has been achieved with the removal of LDMICs prior to fermentation. However, LDMICs removal by chemical processes is often accompanied by sugar losses, which negatively impacts the overall production cost. Hence, in situ removal of LDMICs by fermentative organisms during the fermentation process has garnered considerable attention as the "go-to" approach for economical LDMICs detoxification and bio-chemicals production. In situ removal of LDMICs has been pursued by either engineering more robust biocatalysts or isolating novel microbial strains with the inherent capacity to mineralize or detoxify LDMICs to less toxic compounds. While some success has been made along this line, efficient detoxification and robust production of target bio-chemicals in lignocellulosic hydrolysates (LHs) under largely anaerobic fermentative conditions remains a lingering challenge. Consequently, LB remains an underutilized substrate for bio-chemicals production. In this review, the impact of microbial LH detoxification on overall target molecule production is discussed. Further, the biochemical pathways and mechanisms employed for in situ microbial detoxification of furanic LDMICs [e.g., furfural and 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF)] and phenolic LDMICs (e.g., syringaldehyde, p-coumaric acid, 4-hydroxybenzaldehyde, vanillin, and ferulic acid) are discussed. More importantly, metabolic engineering strategies for the development of LDMIC-tolerant and bio-chemicals overproducing strains and processes are highlighted.
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- Victor C. Ujor
- Metabolic Engineering and Fermentation Science Group, Department of Food Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States
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- Biotechnology Program, College of Science, The Roux Institute, Northeastern University, Portland, ME, United States
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Olorunsogbon T, Adesanya Y, Atiyeh HK, Okonkwo CC, Ujor VC, Ezeji TC. Effects of Clostridium beijerinckii and Medium Modifications on Acetone–Butanol–Ethanol Production From Switchgrass. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2022; 10:942701. [PMID: 35992339 PMCID: PMC9382077 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2022.942701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2022] [Accepted: 06/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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The presence of lignocellulose-derived microbial inhibitory compounds (LDMICs) in lignocellulosic biomass (LB) hydrolysates is a barrier to efficient conversion of LB hydrolysates to fuels and chemicals by fermenting microorganisms. Results from this study provide convincing evidence regarding the effectiveness of metabolically engineered C. beijerinckii NCIMB 8052 for the fermentation of LB-derived hydrolysates to acetone–butanol–ethanol (ABE). The engineered microbial strain (C. beijerinckii_SDR) was produced by the integration of an additional copy of a short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase (SDR) gene (Cbei_3904) into the chromosome of C. beijerinckii NCIMB 8052 wildtype, where it is controlled by the constitutive thiolase promoter. The C. beijerinckii_SDR and C. beijerinckii NCIMB 8052 wildtype were used for comparative fermentation of non-detoxified and detoxified hydrothermolysis-pretreated switchgrass hydrolysates (SHs) with and without (NH4)2CO3 supplementation. In the absence of (NH4)2CO3, fermentation of non-detoxified SH with C. beijerinckii_SDR resulted in the production of 3.13- and 2.25-fold greater quantities of butanol (11.21 g/L) and total ABE (20.24 g/L), respectively, than the 3.58 g/L butanol and 8.98 g/L ABE produced by C. beijerinckii_wildtype. When the non-detoxified SH was supplemented with (NH4)2CO3, concentrations were similar for butanol (9.5 compared with 9.2 g/L) and ABE (14.2 compared with 13.5 g/L) produced by C. beijerinckii_SDR and C. beijerinckii_wildtype, respectively. Furthermore, when C. beijerinckii_SDR and C. beijerinckii_wildtype were cultured in detoxified SH medium, C. beijerinckii_SDR produced 1.11- and 1.18-fold greater quantities of butanol and ABE, respectively, than when there was culturing with C. beijerinckii_wildtype. When the combined results of the present study are considered, conclusions are that the microbial strain and medium modifications of the fermentation milieu resulted in greater production of fuels and chemicals from non-detoxified LB hydrolysates.
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- Tinuola Olorunsogbon
- Department of Animal Science, The Ohio State University, Wooster, OH, United States
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- Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, United States
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- Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, United States
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- Biotechnology Program, College of Science, The Roux Institute, Northeastern University, Portland, ME, United States
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- Department of Food Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Maddison, WI, United States
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- Department of Animal Science, The Ohio State University, Wooster, OH, United States
- *Correspondence: Thaddeus Chukwuemeka Ezeji,
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Guo Y, Liu Y, Guan M, Tang H, Wang Z, Lin L, Pang H. Production of butanol from lignocellulosic biomass: recent advances, challenges, and prospects. RSC Adv 2022; 12:18848-18863. [PMID: 35873330 PMCID: PMC9240921 DOI: 10.1039/d1ra09396g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2021] [Accepted: 05/27/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Due to energy and environmental concerns, biobutanol is gaining increasing attention as an alternative renewable fuel owing to its desirable fuel properties. Biobutanol production from lignocellulosic biomass through acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation has gained much interest globally due to its sustainable supply and non-competitiveness with food, but large-scale fermentative production suffers from low product titres and poor selectivity. This review presents recent developments in lignocellulosic butanol production, including pretreatment and hydrolysis of hemicellulose and cellulose during ABE fermentation. Challenges are discussed, including low concentrations of fermentation sugars, inhibitors, detoxification, and carbon catabolite repression. Some key process improvements are also summarised to guide further research and development towards more profitable and commercially viable butanol fermentation.
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- Yuan Guo
- National Engineering Research Center for Non-Food Biorefinery, State Key Laboratory of Non-Food Biomass and Enzyme Technology, Guangxi Key Laboratory of Bio-refinery, Guangxi Academy of Sciences 98 Daling Road Nanning 530007 China +86-771-2503940 +86-771-2503973
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- National Engineering Research Center for Non-Food Biorefinery, State Key Laboratory of Non-Food Biomass and Enzyme Technology, Guangxi Key Laboratory of Bio-refinery, Guangxi Academy of Sciences 98 Daling Road Nanning 530007 China +86-771-2503940 +86-771-2503973
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- College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University Nanning 530004 China
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- National Engineering Research Center for Non-Food Biorefinery, State Key Laboratory of Non-Food Biomass and Enzyme Technology, Guangxi Key Laboratory of Bio-refinery, Guangxi Academy of Sciences 98 Daling Road Nanning 530007 China +86-771-2503940 +86-771-2503973
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- National Engineering Research Center for Non-Food Biorefinery, State Key Laboratory of Non-Food Biomass and Enzyme Technology, Guangxi Key Laboratory of Bio-refinery, Guangxi Academy of Sciences 98 Daling Road Nanning 530007 China +86-771-2503940 +86-771-2503973
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- National Engineering Research Center for Non-Food Biorefinery, State Key Laboratory of Non-Food Biomass and Enzyme Technology, Guangxi Key Laboratory of Bio-refinery, Guangxi Academy of Sciences 98 Daling Road Nanning 530007 China +86-771-2503940 +86-771-2503973
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- National Engineering Research Center for Non-Food Biorefinery, State Key Laboratory of Non-Food Biomass and Enzyme Technology, Guangxi Key Laboratory of Bio-refinery, Guangxi Academy of Sciences 98 Daling Road Nanning 530007 China +86-771-2503940 +86-771-2503973
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Adesanya Y, Atiyeh HK, Olorunsogbon T, Khanal A, Okonkwo CC, Ujor VC, Shah A, Ezeji TC. Viable strategies for enhancing acetone-butanol-ethanol production from non-detoxified switchgrass hydrolysates. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2022; 344:126167. [PMID: 34678446 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2021.126167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2021] [Revised: 10/13/2021] [Accepted: 10/17/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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A process engineering strategy was investigated towards developing a viable scheme for effective conversion of hydrothermolysis pretreated non-detoxified switchgrass hydrolysates (SH) to acetone butanol ethanol (ABE) using a metabolically engineered strain of Clostridium beijerinckii NCIMB 8052, C. beijerinckii_AKR. The engineered strain was modified by homologous integration into the chromosome and constitutive expression of Cbei_3974, which encodes an aldo-keto reductase. Intermittent feeding strategy was employed in which fermentation was initiated with 30% of the SH and the remaining 70% SH was added when the optical density (OD600nm) of C. beijerinckii attained 0.5. The ABE (14.9 g/L) produced from non-detoxified SH by the inhibitor-tolerant C. beijerinckii_AKR was comparable to the P2-glucose control medium (14.7 g/L). Using intermittent feeding, wildtype and C. beijerinckii_AKR produced similar amounts of ABE (about 17.5 g/L). This shows that intermittent feeding strategy and C. beijerinckii_AKR enhanced ABE fermentation and eliminated the need for SH detoxification prior to fermentation.
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- Yinka Adesanya
- Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA
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- Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA.
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- Department of Animal Science, The Ohio State University, and Ohio State Agricultural Research and Development Center, Wooster, OH, USA
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- Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, The Ohio State University, Wooster, OH, USA
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- Department of Animal Science, The Ohio State University, and Ohio State Agricultural Research and Development Center, Wooster, OH, USA
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- Department of Food Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Maddison, WI, USA
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- Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, The Ohio State University, Wooster, OH, USA
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- Department of Animal Science, The Ohio State University, and Ohio State Agricultural Research and Development Center, Wooster, OH, USA
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Pamula ASP, Lampert DJ, Atiyeh HK. Well-to-wake analysis of switchgrass to jet fuel via a novel co-fermentation of sugars and CO 2. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2021; 782:146770. [PMID: 33839671 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146770] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2020] [Revised: 03/19/2021] [Accepted: 03/22/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Lignocellulosic biomass such as switchgrass can be converted to n-butanol using fermentation, which can be further processed into jet fuel. Traditional acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation only converts sugars derived from switchgrass to ABE. Novel co-fermentation processes convert sugars and gas (CO2/H2) produced during fermentation into butanol, thus increasing ABE yields by 15.5% compared to traditional ABE fermentation. Herein, the environmental impact of a Switchgrass to Jet Fuel (STJ) pathway was assessed using life cycle assessment (LCA) from well-to-wake. LCAs were performed for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from jet fuel production via co-fermentation of sugars and gas for ideal and practical cases of ABE fermentation and seven other jet fuel pathways. The ideal case assumes 100% sugar recovery and 95% ABE yield. The practical case assumes 90% sugar recovery and an 80% ABE yield. Results are presented based on 100-year global warming potential (GWP) per MJ of jet fuel. Co-products were allocated using various methods. The increase in butanol yield via the co-fermentation technology reduced GWP-100 for the STJ pathway by 6.5% compared to traditional ABE fermentation. Similarly, the STJ pathway for the practical case with co-fermentation had 14.2%, 47.5%, 73.8%, and 44.4% less GWP-100 compared to HRJ, Fischer-Tropsch jet fuel from switchgrass, Fischer-Tropsch jet fuel from coal, and conventional petroleum jet fuel. The results demonstrate that the STJ pathway via co-fermentation has the potential to increase product yield while reducing GHG emissions compared to other jet fuel production pathways.
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- Civil Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA.
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- Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA
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Metabolic engineering for the production of butanol, a potential advanced biofuel, from renewable resources. Biochem Soc Trans 2021; 48:2283-2293. [PMID: 32897293 DOI: 10.1042/bst20200603] [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: 06/13/2020] [Revised: 08/14/2020] [Accepted: 08/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Butanol is an important chemical and potential fuel. For more than 100 years, acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation of Clostridium strains has been the most successful process for biological butanol production. In recent years, other microbes have been engineered to produce butanol as well, among which Escherichia coli was the best one. Considering the crude oil price fluctuation, minimizing the cost of butanol production is of highest priority for its industrial application. Therefore, using cheaper feedstocks instead of pure sugars is an important project. In this review, we summarized butanol production from different renewable resources, such as industrial and food waste, lignocellulosic biomass, syngas and other renewable resources. This review will present the current progress in this field and provide insights for further engineering efforts on renewable butanol production.
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Joseph RC, Kelley SQ, Kim NM, Sandoval NR. Metabolic Engineering and the Synthetic Biology Toolbox for
Clostridium. Metab Eng 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/9783527823468.ch16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Zhou ZY, Yang ST, Moore CD, Zhang QH, Peng SY, Li HG. Acetone, butanol, and ethanol production from puerariae slag hydrolysate through ultrasound-assisted dilute acid by Clostridium beijerinckii YBS3. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2020; 316:123899. [PMID: 32739577 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2020.123899] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2020] [Revised: 07/19/2020] [Accepted: 07/20/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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In this study, puerariae slag (PS) was evaluated as a renewable raw material for acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation. To accelerate the hydrolysis of PS, the method of ultrasound-assisted dilute acid hydrolysis (UAAH) was used. With this effort, 0.69 g reducing sugar was obtained from 1 g raw material under the optimal pretreatment condition. Subsequently, the butanol and total solvent production of 8.79 ± 0.16 g/L and 12.32 ± 0.26 g/L were obtained from the non-detoxified diluted hydrolysate, and the yield and productivity of butanol were 0.19 g/g and 0.12 g/L/h, respectively. Additionally, the changes in the structure of PS after different pretreatment methods were observed using SEM and FT-IR. UAAH resulted in more severe and distinct damage to the dense structure of PS. This study suggests that the UAAH is an attainable but effective pretreatment method, thereby is a promising technique for lignocellulose hydrolysis and improve butanol production.
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- Zhi-You Zhou
- College of Bioscience and Bioengineering, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Jiangxi Engineering Laboratory for the Development and Utilization of Agricultural Microbial Resources, Jiangxi Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Fungal Resources, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330045, China
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- College of Bioscience and Bioengineering, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Jiangxi Engineering Laboratory for the Development and Utilization of Agricultural Microbial Resources, Jiangxi Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Fungal Resources, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330045, China
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- College of Bioscience and Bioengineering, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Jiangxi Engineering Laboratory for the Development and Utilization of Agricultural Microbial Resources, Jiangxi Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Fungal Resources, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330045, China
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- College of Bioscience and Bioengineering, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Jiangxi Engineering Laboratory for the Development and Utilization of Agricultural Microbial Resources, Jiangxi Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Fungal Resources, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330045, China.
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Su Z, Wang F, Xie Y, Xie H, Mao G, Zhang H, Song A, Zhang Z. Reassessment of the role of CaCO 3 in n-butanol production from pretreated lignocellulosic biomass by Clostridium acetobutylicum. Sci Rep 2020; 10:17956. [PMID: 33087773 PMCID: PMC7578090 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-74899-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2019] [Accepted: 10/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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In this study, the role of CaCO3 in n-butanol production was further investigated using corn straw hydrolysate (CSH) media by Clostridium acetobutylicum CICC 8016. CaCO3 addition stimulated sugars utilization and butanol production. Further study showed that calcium salts addition to CSH media led to the increase in Ca2+ concentration both intracellularly and extracellularly. Interestingly, without calcium salts addition, intracellular Ca2+ concentration in the synthetic P2 medium was much higher than that in the CSH medium despite the lower extracellular Ca2+ concentrations in the P2 medium. These results indicated that without additional calcium salts, Ca2+ uptake by C. acetobutylicum CICC 8016 in the CSH medium may be inhibited by non-sugar biomass degradation compounds, such as furans, phenolics and organic acids. Comparative proteomics analysis results showed that most enzymes involved in glycolysis, redox balance and amino acids metabolism were up-regulated with CaCO3 addition. This study provides further insights into the role of CaCO3 in n-butanol production using real biomass hydrolysate.
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- Zengping Su
- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbial Enzyme Engineering (Ministry of Agriculture), College of Life Science, Henan Agricultural University, No. 63, Nongye Road, Jinshui District, Zhengzhou, 450002, Henan Province, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbial Enzyme Engineering (Ministry of Agriculture), College of Life Science, Henan Agricultural University, No. 63, Nongye Road, Jinshui District, Zhengzhou, 450002, Henan Province, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbial Enzyme Engineering (Ministry of Agriculture), College of Life Science, Henan Agricultural University, No. 63, Nongye Road, Jinshui District, Zhengzhou, 450002, Henan Province, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbial Enzyme Engineering (Ministry of Agriculture), College of Life Science, Henan Agricultural University, No. 63, Nongye Road, Jinshui District, Zhengzhou, 450002, Henan Province, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbial Enzyme Engineering (Ministry of Agriculture), College of Life Science, Henan Agricultural University, No. 63, Nongye Road, Jinshui District, Zhengzhou, 450002, Henan Province, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbial Enzyme Engineering (Ministry of Agriculture), College of Life Science, Henan Agricultural University, No. 63, Nongye Road, Jinshui District, Zhengzhou, 450002, Henan Province, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbial Enzyme Engineering (Ministry of Agriculture), College of Life Science, Henan Agricultural University, No. 63, Nongye Road, Jinshui District, Zhengzhou, 450002, Henan Province, China.
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- Centre for Agriculture and the Bioeconomy, Institute for Future Environments, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, 4000, Australia.,School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering, Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, 4000, Australia
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Recent advances in polyhydroxyalkanoate production: Feedstocks, strains and process developments. Int J Biol Macromol 2020; 156:691-703. [PMID: 32315680 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2020.04.082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2020] [Revised: 04/01/2020] [Accepted: 04/12/2020] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) have been actively studied in academia and industry for their properties comparable to petroleum-derived plastics and high biocompatibility. However, the major limitation for commercialization is their high cost. Feedstock costs, especially carbon costs, account for the majority of the final cost. Finding cheap feedstocks for PHA production and associated process development are critical for a cost-effective PHA production. In this study, waste materials from different sources, particularly lignocellulosic biomass, were proposed as suitable feedstocks for PHA production. Strains involved in the conversion of these feedstocks into PHA were reviewed. Newly isolated strains were emphasized. Related process development, including the factors that affect PHA production, fermentation modes and downstream processing, was elaborated upon.
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Sun X, Atiyeh HK, Adesanya Y, Okonkwo C, Zhang H, Huhnke RL, Ezeji T. Feasibility of using biochar as buffer and mineral nutrients replacement for acetone-butanol-ethanol production from non-detoxified switchgrass hydrolysate. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2020; 298:122569. [PMID: 31862676 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.122569] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2019] [Revised: 12/03/2019] [Accepted: 12/04/2019] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Biochar can be an inexpensive pH buffer and source of mineral and trace metal nutrients in acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation. This study evaluated the feasibility of replacing expensive 4-morpholineethanesulfonic acid (MES) P2 buffer and mineral nutrients with biochar made from switchgrass (SGBC), forage sorghum (FSBC), redcedar (RCBC) and poultry litter (PLBC) for ABE fermentation. Fermentations using Clostridium beijerinckii ATCC 51743 in glucose and non-detoxified switchgrass hydrolysate media were performed at 35 °C in 250 mL bottles for 72 h. Medium containing buffer and minerals without biochar was the control. Similar ABE production (about 18.0 g/L) in glucose media with SGBC, FSBC and RCBC and control was measured. However in non-detoxified switchgrass hydrolysate medium, SGBC, RCBC and PLBC produced more ABE (about 18.5 g/L) than the control (10.1 g/L). This demonstrates that biochar is an effective buffer and mineral supplement for ABE production from lignocellulosic biomass without costly detoxification process.
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- Xiao Sun
- Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA
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- Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA.
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- Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA
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- Department of Animal Science, The Ohio State University, and Ohio State Agricultural Research and Development Center, Wooster, OH, USA
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- Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA
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- Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA
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- Department of Animal Science, The Ohio State University, and Ohio State Agricultural Research and Development Center, Wooster, OH, USA
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Wang F, Dong Y, Cheng X, Xie H, Song A, Zhang Z. Effect of detoxification methods on ABE production from corn stover hydrolysate by Clostridium acetobutylicum CICC 8016. Biotechnol Appl Biochem 2020; 67:790-798. [PMID: 31903642 DOI: 10.1002/bab.1881] [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] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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In this study, effects of different single biomass derived inhibitors on acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) production by Clostridium acetobutylicum CICC 8016 were first investigated. The results showed that formic acid, coumaric acid, and furfural at 0.5 g/L (sodium formate equivalent) inhibited ABE production. Furthermore, corn stover hydrolysate media were prepared following dilute acid pretreatment, enzymatic hydrolysis, and detoxification with different methods. Among overliming, steam stripping, acetone-ethyl ether extraction, and ion exchange with five anion resins, adsorption with resin D301 showed the highest efficiency for inhibitor removal (99-100% of phenolics and 87-99% of sugar degradation products). Without detoxification, ABE production was lower than 1.0 g/L from 28.1 g/L sugars whereas ABE production with medium detoxified by D301 resin achieved higher ABE concentrations and yields than control with synthetic medium. Correlation analysis further revealed that formic acid, coumaric acid, and total phenolics were the major compounds inhibiting ABE production. The results also showed that the single detoxification method was sufficient to detoxify the hydrolysate for ABE production at the pretreatment conditions used in this study.
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- Fengqin Wang
- College of Life Science, Henan Agricultural University, Key Laboratory of Enzyme Engineering of Agricultural Microbiology, Ministry of Agriculture, Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China
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- College of Life Science, Henan Agricultural University, Key Laboratory of Enzyme Engineering of Agricultural Microbiology, Ministry of Agriculture, Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China
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- College of Life Science, Henan Agricultural University, Key Laboratory of Enzyme Engineering of Agricultural Microbiology, Ministry of Agriculture, Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China
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- College of Life Science, Henan Agricultural University, Key Laboratory of Enzyme Engineering of Agricultural Microbiology, Ministry of Agriculture, Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China
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- College of Life Science, Henan Agricultural University, Key Laboratory of Enzyme Engineering of Agricultural Microbiology, Ministry of Agriculture, Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China
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- Centre for Tropical Crops and Biocommodities, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
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Sun X, Atiyeh HK, Li M, Chen Y. Biochar facilitated bioprocessing and biorefinery for productions of biofuel and chemicals: A review. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2020; 295:122252. [PMID: 31669180 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.122252] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2019] [Revised: 10/04/2019] [Accepted: 10/05/2019] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Biochar is traditionally used to improve soil properties in arable land and as adsorbent or precursor of activated carbon in wastewater treatment. Recent advances have shown biochar potentials in enhancing productions of biofuels and chemicals such as bio-ethanol, butanol, methane, hydrogen, bio-diesel, hydrocarbons and carboxylic acids. The properties of biochar such as high levels of porosity, functional groups, cation exchange capacity, pH buffering capacity, electron conductivity, and macro-/micro- nutrients (Na, K, Ca, Mg, P, S, Fe, etc.) provide appropriate conditions to relieve physicochemical stresses on microorganisms through pH buffering, detoxification, nutrients supply, serving as electron carrier and supportive microbial habitats. This paper critically reviewed biochar production and characteristics, biochar utilization in anaerobic digestion, composting, microbial fermentation, hydrolysate detoxification, catalysis in biomass refinery and biodiesel synthesis. This review provides novel vision of biochar application, which could guide future research towards cleaner and more economic production of renewable fuels and bio-based chemicals.
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- Xiao Sun
- Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul 55108, MN, USA.
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- Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater 74078, OK, USA
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- Department of Biological Systems Engineering, University of Nebraska, Lincoln 68583, NE, USA
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- School of Bioengineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, Liaoning, China
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Li M, Wilkins M. Flow cytometry for quantitation of polyhydroxybutyrate production by Cupriavidus necator using alkaline pretreated liquor from corn stover. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2020; 295:122254. [PMID: 31629285 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.122254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2019] [Revised: 10/07/2019] [Accepted: 10/08/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Alkaline pretreated liquor (APL) from lignocellulosic feedstock pretreatment is a lignin-rich stream. Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB), a biodegradable polymer, has been previously synthesized from APL. It is of interest to monitor PHB production and cell number from APL rapidly for process control. However, APL has insoluble substances and is dark, which makes quantitation of cells by visible light absorbance difficult. A sample preparation method was developed using Nile Red staining and flow cytometry to quantify bacterial cells and PHB concentration. A linear model with good fitness (R2 = 0.9939) was constructed to predict PHB concentration (0.2-2.1 g/L) based on fluorescence intensity acquired from a flow cytometer. A linear model (R2 = 0.8614) to predict cell number based on fluorescence intensity was also established. The good correlation between PHB concentration and fluorescence intensity indicates the potential of applying flow cytometry for quantitation of PHB from APL and other media that is dark and/or contains insoluble particles.
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- Mengxing Li
- Department of Biological Systems Engineering, The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68583, USA; Department of Statistics, The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68583, USA
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- Department of Biological Systems Engineering, The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68583, USA; Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA; Industrial Agricultural Products Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68583, USA.
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Acetone–butanol–ethanol fermentation from sugarcane bagasse hydrolysates: Utilization of C5 and C6 sugars. ELECTRON J BIOTECHN 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejbt.2019.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Sun X, Atiyeh HK, Huhnke RL, Tanner RS. Syngas fermentation process development for production of biofuels and chemicals: A review. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biteb.2019.100279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Jiang Y, Lv Y, Wu R, Sui Y, Chen C, Xin F, Zhou J, Dong W, Jiang M. Current status and perspectives on biobutanol production using lignocellulosic feedstocks. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biteb.2019.100245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Investigation and Modeling of Gas-Liquid Mass Transfer in a Sparged and Non-Sparged Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor with Potential Application in Syngas Fermentation. FERMENTATION-BASEL 2019. [DOI: 10.3390/fermentation5030075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Syngas (mixture of CO, H2 and CO2) fermentation suffers from mass transfer limitation due to low solubility of CO and H2 in the liquid medium. Therefore, it is critical to characterize the mass transfer in syngas fermentation reactors to guide in delivery of syngas to the microorganisms. The objective of this study is to measure and predict the overall volumetric mass transfer coefficient, kLa for O2 at various operating conditions in a 7-L sparged and non-sparged continuous stirred-tank reactor (CSTR). Measurements indicated that the kLa for O2 increased with an increase in air flow rate and agitation speed. However, kLa for O2 decreased with the increase in the headspace pressure. The highest kLa for O2 with air sparged in the CSTR was 116 h−1 at 600 sccm, 900 rpm, 101 kPa, and 3 L working volume. Backmixing of the headspace N2 in the sparged CSTR reduced the observed kLa. The mass transfer model predicted the kLa for O2 within 10% of the experimental values. The model was extended to predict the kLa for syngas components CO, CO2 and H2, which will guide in selecting operating conditions that minimize power input to the bioreactor and maximize the syngas conversion efficiency.
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Birgen C, Dürre P, Preisig HA, Wentzel A. Butanol production from lignocellulosic biomass: revisiting fermentation performance indicators with exploratory data analysis. BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS 2019; 12:167. [PMID: 31297155 PMCID: PMC6598312 DOI: 10.1186/s13068-019-1508-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2019] [Accepted: 06/19/2019] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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After just more than 100 years of history of industrial acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation, patented by Weizmann in the UK in 1915, butanol is again today considered a promising biofuel alternative based on several advantages compared to the more established biofuels ethanol and methanol. Large-scale fermentative production of butanol, however, still suffers from high substrate cost and low product titers and selectivity. There have been great advances the last decades to tackle these problems. However, understanding the fermentation process variables and their interconnectedness with a holistic view of the current scientific state-of-the-art is lacking to a great extent. To illustrate the benefits of such a comprehensive approach, we have developed a dataset by collecting data from 175 fermentations of lignocellulosic biomass and mixed sugars to produce butanol that reported during the past three decades of scientific literature and performed an exploratory data analysis to map current trends and bottlenecks. This review presents the results of this exploratory data analysis as well as main features of fermentative butanol production from lignocellulosic biomass with a focus on performance indicators as a useful tool to guide further research and development in the field towards more profitable butanol manufacturing for biofuel applications in the future.
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- Cansu Birgen
- Department of Chemical Engineering, NTNU, 7491 Trondheim, Norway
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- Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Ulm University, 89069 Ulm, Germany
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, NTNU, 7491 Trondheim, Norway
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Li M, Eskridge K, Liu E, Wilkins M. Enhancement of polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) production by 10-fold from alkaline pretreatment liquor with an oxidative enzyme-mediator-surfactant system under Plackett-Burman and central composite designs. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2019; 281:99-106. [PMID: 30807996 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.02.045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2019] [Revised: 02/06/2019] [Accepted: 02/08/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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In this study, Plackett-Burman and central composite designs were applied to improve polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) production from alkaline pretreatment liquor (APL) by Cupriavidus necator DSM 545 using a supplement system consisting of oxidative enzymes (laccase, aryl alcohol oxidase (AAO)), mediators (ABTS, HOBT), DMSO, silica nanoparticle Aerosol R816 and surfactant Tween 80. First, screening experiments under Plackett-Burman design showed R816, ABTS and Tween 80 could significantly enhance PHB production. Additional experiments showed that HOBT and DMSO could be removed, and laccase and AAO were needed to remain in the system. Second, a central composite design was applied to obtain the optimum supplemental levels of R816, ABTS and Tween 80. Under optimum conditions, theoretical maximum PHB production (1.9 g/L) was close to experimental PHB production (2.1 g/L). With the supplement system, a 10-fold increase was achieved compared to PHB production (0.2 g/L) without any supplements.
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- Mengxing Li
- Department of Biological Systems Engineering, The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln 68583, USA; Department of Statistics, The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln 68583, USA
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- Department of Statistics, The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln 68583, USA
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- Department of Biological Systems Engineering, The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln 68583, USA
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- Department of Biological Systems Engineering, The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln 68583, USA; Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln 68588, USA; Industrial Agricultural Products Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln 68583, USA.
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Li M, Eskridge KM, Wilkins MR. Optimization of polyhydroxybutyrate production by experimental design of combined ternary mixture (glucose, xylose and arabinose) and process variables (sugar concentration, molar C:N ratio). Bioprocess Biosyst Eng 2019; 42:1495-1506. [DOI: 10.1007/s00449-019-02146-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2018] [Accepted: 05/06/2019] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Continuous Butanol Fermentation of Dilute Acid-Pretreated De-oiled Rice Bran by Clostridium acetobutylicum YM1. Sci Rep 2019; 9:4622. [PMID: 30874578 PMCID: PMC6420626 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-40840-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2018] [Accepted: 12/10/2018] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Continuous fermentation of dilute acid-pretreated de-oiled rice bran (DRB) to butanol by the Clostridium acetobutylicum YM1 strain was investigated. Pretreatment of DRB with dilute sulfuric acid (1%) resulted in the production of 42.12 g/L total sugars, including 25.57 g/L glucose, 15.1 g/L xylose and 1.46 g/L cellobiose. Pretreated-DRB (SADRB) was used as a fermentation medium at various dilution rates, and a dilution rate of 0.02 h-1 was optimal for solvent production, in which 11.18 g/L of total solvent was produced (acetone 4.37 g/L, butanol 5.89 g/L and ethanol 0.92 g/L). Detoxification of SADRB with activated charcoal resulted in the high removal of fermentation inhibitory compounds. Fermentation of detoxified-SADRB in continuous fermentation with a dilution rate of 0.02 h-1 achieved higher concentrations of solvent (12.42 g/L) and butanol (6.87 g/L), respectively, with a solvent productivity of 0.248 g/L.h. This study showed that the solvent concentration and productivity in continuous fermentation from SADRB was higher than that obtained from batch culture fermentation. This study also provides an economic assessment for butanol production in continuous fermentation process from DRB to validate the commercial viability of this process.
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Current situation of biofuel production and its enhancement by CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome engineering of microbial cells. Microbiol Res 2019; 219:1-11. [DOI: 10.1016/j.micres.2018.10.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2018] [Revised: 10/10/2018] [Accepted: 10/30/2018] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Liao Z, Guo X, Hu J, Suo Y, Fu H, Wang J. The significance of proline on lignocellulose-derived inhibitors tolerance in Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2019; 272:561-569. [PMID: 30396113 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2018.10.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2018] [Revised: 10/15/2018] [Accepted: 10/16/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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When lignocellulosic biomass was used for acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation, several lignocellulose-derived inhibitors, which are toxic to Clostridium acetobutylicum, were generated during acid hydrolysis process and seriously hindered the industrialization of lignocellulosic butanol. In this study, an engineered strain 824(proABC) with significantly improved tolerance to multiple lignocellulose-derived inhibitors (formic acid and phenolic compounds) was constructed by strengthening the proline biosynthesis. The engineered strain exhibited more effective synthesis ability of proline and scavenging ability of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Consequently, the butanol produced by 824(proABC) was 1-, 2.4- or 3.4-fold higher than that of the wild type strain when using the undetoxified hydrolysate of soybean straw, rice straw or corn straw as the substrate, respectively. Therefore, enhancing the proline biosynthesis can be used as an effective strategy to improve the tolerance of C. acetobutylicum to multiple lignocellulose-derived inhibitors, and 824(proABC) has great potential to produce butanol from undetoxified lignocellulosic hydrolysates.
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- Zhengping Liao
- School of Biology and Biological Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- School of Biology and Biological Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- School of Biology and Biological Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- School of Biology and Biological Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- School of Biology and Biological Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China.
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- School of Biology and Biological Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China; State Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China.
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Amiri H, Karimi K. Pretreatment and hydrolysis of lignocellulosic wastes for butanol production: Challenges and perspectives. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2018; 270:702-721. [PMID: 30195696 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2018.08.117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2018] [Revised: 08/27/2018] [Accepted: 08/29/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Butanol is acknowledged as a drop-in biofuel that can be used in the existing transportation infrastructure, addressing the needs for sustainable liquid fuel. However, before becoming a thoughtful alternative for fossil fuel, butanol should be produced efficiently from a widely-available, renewable, and cost-effective source. In this regard, lignocellulosic materials, the main component of organic wastes from agriculture, forestry, municipalities, and even industries seems to be the most promising source. The butanol-producing bacteria, i.e., Clostridia sp., can uptake a wide range of hexoses, pentoses, and oligomers obtained from hydrolysis of cellulose and hemicellulose content of lignocelluloses. The present work is dedicated to reviewing different processes containing pretreatment and hydrolysis of hemicellulose and cellulose developed for preparing fermentable hydrolysates for biobutanol production.
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- Hamid Amiri
- Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Advanced Sciences and Technologies, University of Isfahan, Isfahan 81746-73441, Iran; Environmental Research Institute, University of Isfahan, Isfahan 81746-73441, Iran.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan 84156-83111, Iran; Industrial Biotechnology Group, Research Institute for Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan 84156-83111, Iran
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Naresh Kumar M, Ravikumar R, Kirupa Sankar M, Thenmozhi S. New insight into the effect of fungal mycelia present in the bio-pretreated paddy straw on their enzymatic saccharification and optimization of process parameters. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2018; 267:291-302. [PMID: 30029174 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2018.07.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2018] [Revised: 06/30/2018] [Accepted: 07/02/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Assessment of Pleurotus florida efficiency on paddy straw pretreatment and optimization of saccharification parameters were studied. P. florida growth was monitored by the estimation of fungal cell wall component (glucosamine). The control bio-pretreatment sample showed high glucosamine content by 397 mg/g in 28 days of incubation. But, the Inhibitor Mediated Biological (IMB) Pretreatment showed 29% lower result due to the inhibition of cellulase enzyme limits mycelial penetration rate inside the paddy straw. Fungal components present inside the pretreated straw renders nonspecific interactions with the hydrolytic enzymes during saccharification process and reducing the hydrolysis efficiency. IMB pretreated paddy straw showed maximum saccharification efficiency up to 75.3% with optimized condition (Biomass loading- 10% (w/v), Enzyme loading- 20 FPU/g and saccharification time - 72 h) than control pretreatment sample. Thus, the study brings out new insight into the effect of fungal residues inside the bio-pretreated paddy straw during enzymatic saccharification to improve the efficiency.
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- Manickam Naresh Kumar
- Bioenergy Research Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam, Erode 638401, TN, India
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- Bioenergy Research Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam, Erode 638401, TN, India.
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- Bioenergy Research Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam, Erode 638401, TN, India
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- Bioenergy Research Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam, Erode 638401, TN, India
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Sun X, Atiyeh HK, Kumar A, Zhang H, Tanner RS. Biochar enhanced ethanol and butanol production by Clostridium carboxidivorans from syngas. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2018; 265:128-138. [PMID: 29886351 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2018.05.106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2018] [Revised: 05/29/2018] [Accepted: 05/30/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Biochar has functional groups, pH buffering capacity and cation exchange capacity (CEC) that can be beneficial in syngas fermentation. This study examined the properties of biochar made from switchgrass (SGBC), forage sorghum (FSBC), red cedar (RCBC) and poultry litter (PLBC), and their effects on ethanol and butanol production from syngas using Clostridium carboxidivorans. Experiments were performed in 250 mL bottle reactors with a 50 mL working volume at 37 °C fed syngas containing CO:H2:CO2 (40:30:30 by volume). Results showed that PLBC and SGBC enhanced ethanol production by 90% and 73%, respectively, and butanol production by fourfold compared to standard yeast extract medium without biochar (control). CO and H2 utilization in PLBC and SGBC media increased compared to control. PLBC had the highest pH buffering capacity, CEC and total amount of cations compared with SGBC, FSBC and RCBC, which could have contributed to its highest enhancement of ethanol and butanol production.
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- Xiao Sun
- Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA
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- Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA.
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- Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA
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- Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
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Ibrahim MF, Kim SW, Abd-Aziz S. Advanced bioprocessing strategies for biobutanol production from biomass. RENEWABLE AND SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS 2018; 91:1192-1204. [DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2018.04.060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/02/2023]
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Chen WH, Zeng YR. Mathematical model to appraise the inhibitory effect of phenolic compounds derived from lignin for biobutanol production. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2018; 261:44-51. [PMID: 29653333 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2018.04.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2018] [Revised: 03/30/2018] [Accepted: 04/02/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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This study aimed to establish a mathematical modeling to evaluate the inhibitory effect of phenolic derivatives on acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation by Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum N1-4. Vanillin, 4-hydroxybenzoic acid, and syringaldehyde were selected to represent guaiacyl, hydroxyphenyl, and syringyl phenols, respectively, to be examined in a series of fed-batch experiments. Results show the presence of phenolic derivatives blocked the pathway of the assimilation of organic acids and reduced cell growth and glucose utilization. The inhibition model projected that the levels of 0.13, 0.14, and 0.04 g L-1 for vanillin, 4-hydroxybenzoic acid, and syringaldehyde, respectively, resulted in 25% inhibition of butanol production, whereas 100% inhibition was predicted at the levels of 4.94, 4.37, and 4.20 g L-1 for vanillin, 4-hydroxybenzoic acid, and syringaldehyde, respectively. Syringaldehyde was more toxic than the other two compounds. The established model described that the phenolic compounds derived from different phenyl propane monomers of lignin severely obstructed biobutanol production.
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- Wen-Hsing Chen
- Department of Environmental Engineering, National Ilan University, Yilan 260, Taiwan.
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- Department of Environmental Engineering, National Ilan University, Yilan 260, Taiwan
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Guan W, Shi S, Blersch D. Effects of Tween 80 on fermentative butanol production from alkali-pretreated switchgrass. Biochem Eng J 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bej.2018.03.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Detoxification of Organosolv-Pretreated Pine Prehydrolysates with Anion Resin and Cysteine for Butanol Fermentation. Appl Biochem Biotechnol 2018; 186:662-680. [PMID: 29717408 DOI: 10.1007/s12010-018-2769-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2018] [Accepted: 04/23/2018] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Bioconversion of lignocellulose to biofuels suffers from the degradation compounds formed during pretreatment and acid hydrolysis. In order to achieve an efficient biomass to biofuel conversion, detoxification is often required before enzymatic hydrolysis and microbial fermentation. Prehydrolysates from ethanol organosolv-pretreated pine wood were used as substrates in butanol fermentation in this study. Six detoxification approaches were studied and compared, including overliming, anion exchange resin, nonionic resin, laccase, activated carbon, and cysteine. It was observed that detoxification by anion exchange resin was the most effective method. The final butanol yield after anion exchange resin treatment was comparable to the control group, but the fermentation was delayed for 72 h. The addition of Ca(OH)2 was found to alleviate this delay and improve the fermentation efficiency. The combination of Ca(OH)2 and anion exchange resin resulted in completion of fermentation within 72 h and acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) production of 11.11 g/L, corresponding to a yield of 0.21 g/g sugar. The cysteine detoxification also resulted in good detoxification performance, but promoted fermentation towards acid production (8.90 g/L). The effect of salt on ABE fermentation was assessed and the possible role of Ca(OH)2 was to remove the salts in the prehydrolysates by precipitation.
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Kushwaha D, Srivastava N, Mishra I, Upadhyay SN, Mishra PK. Recent trends in biobutanol production. REV CHEM ENG 2018. [DOI: 10.1515/revce-2017-0041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Finite availability of conventional fossil carbonaceous fuels coupled with increasing pollution due to their overexploitation has necessitated the quest for renewable fuels. Consequently, biomass-derived fuels are gaining importance due to their economic viability and environment-friendly nature. Among various liquid biofuels, biobutanol is being considered as a suitable and sustainable alternative to gasoline. This paper reviews the present state of the preprocessing of the feedstock, biobutanol production through fermentation and separation processes. Low butanol yield and its toxicity are the major bottlenecks. The use of metabolic engineering and integrated fermentation and product recovery techniques has the potential to overcome these challenges. The application of different nanocatalysts to overcome the existing challenges in the biobutanol field is gaining much interest. For the sustainable production of biobutanol, algae, a third-generation feedstock has also been evaluated.
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- Deepika Kushwaha
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) , Varanasi 221005 , India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) , Varanasi 221005 , India
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- Green Brick Eco Solutions, Okha Industrial Area , New Delhi 110020 , India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) , Varanasi 221005 , India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) , Varanasi 221005 , India
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Joseph RC, Kim NM, Sandoval NR. Recent Developments of the Synthetic Biology Toolkit for Clostridium. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:154. [PMID: 29483900 PMCID: PMC5816073 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2017] [Accepted: 01/23/2018] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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The Clostridium genus is a large, diverse group consisting of Gram-positive, spore-forming, obligate anaerobic firmicutes. Among this group are historically notorious pathogens as well as several industrially relevant species with the ability to produce chemical commodities, particularly biofuels, from renewable biomass. Additionally, other species are studied for their potential use as therapeutics. Although metabolic engineering and synthetic biology have been instrumental in improving product tolerance, titer, yields, and feed stock consumption capabilities in several organisms, low transformation efficiencies and lack of synthetic biology tools and genetic parts make metabolic engineering within the Clostridium genus difficult. Progress has recently been made to overcome challenges associated with engineering various Clostridium spp. For example, developments in CRISPR tools in multiple species and strains allow greater capability to produce edits with greater precision, faster, and with higher efficiencies. In this mini-review, we will highlight these recent advances and compare them to established methods for genetic engineering in Clostridium. In addition, we discuss the current state and development of Clostridium-based promoters (constitutive and inducible) and reporters. Future progress in this area will enable more rapid development of strain engineering, which would allow for the industrial exploitation of Clostridium for several applications including bioproduction of several commodity products.
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- Rochelle C. Joseph
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, United States
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- Interdisciplinary Bioinnovation PhD Program, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, United States
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Maiti S, Gallastegui G, Suresh G, Sarma SJ, Brar SK, Drogui P, LeBihan Y, Buelna G, Verma M, Soccol CR. Hydrolytic pre-treatment methods for enhanced biobutanol production from agro-industrial wastes. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2018; 249:673-683. [PMID: 29091853 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2017.09.132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2017] [Revised: 09/18/2017] [Accepted: 09/19/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Brewery industry liquid waste (BLW), brewery spent grain (BSG), apple pomace solid wastes (APS), apple pomace ultrafiltration sludge (APUS) and starch industry wastewater (SIW) have been considered as substrates to produce biobutanol. Efficiency of hydrolysis techniques tested to produce fermentable sugars depended on nature of agro-industrial wastes and process conditions. Acid-catalysed hydrolysis of BLW and BSG gave a total reducing sugar yield of 0.433 g/g and 0.468 g/g respectively. Reducing sugar yield from microwave assisted hydrothermal method was 0.404 g/g from APS and 0.631 g/g from APUS, and, 0.359 g/g from microwave assisted acid-catalysed SIW dry mass. Parameter optimization (time, pH and substrate concentration) for acid-catalysed BLW hydrolysate utilization using central composite model technique produced 307.9 g/kg glucose with generation of inhibitors (5-hydroxymethyl furfural (20 g/kg), furfural (1.6 g/kg), levulinic acid (9.3 g/kg) and total phenolic compound (0.567 g/kg)). 10.62 g/L of acetone-butanol-ethanol was produced by subsequent clostridial fermentation of the substrate.
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- Sampa Maiti
- Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Centre - Eau Terre Environnement, 490, Rue de la Couronne, Québec G1K 9A9 Canada
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- Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Centre - Eau Terre Environnement, 490, Rue de la Couronne, Québec G1K 9A9 Canada; University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University College of Engineering of Vitoria/Gasteiz, Nieves Cano 12, 01006 Vitoria/Gasteiz, Spain
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- Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Centre - Eau Terre Environnement, 490, Rue de la Couronne, Québec G1K 9A9 Canada
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- Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Centre - Eau Terre Environnement, 490, Rue de la Couronne, Québec G1K 9A9 Canada
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- Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Centre - Eau Terre Environnement, 490, Rue de la Couronne, Québec G1K 9A9 Canada.
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- Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Centre - Eau Terre Environnement, 490, Rue de la Couronne, Québec G1K 9A9 Canada
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- Centre de recherche industrielle du Québec (CRIQ), Québec, Canada
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- University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University College of Engineering of Vitoria/Gasteiz, Nieves Cano 12, 01006 Vitoria/Gasteiz, Spain
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- CO(2) Solutions Inc., 2300, rue Jean-Perrin, Québec, Québec G2C 1T9, Canada
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- Bioprocess Engineering and Biotechnology Department, Federal University of Paraná, Centro Politécnico, Usina Piloto B, CEP 81531-990 Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
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Guan W, Xu G, Duan J, Shi S. Acetone–Butanol–Ethanol Production from Fermentation of Hot-Water-Extracted Hemicellulose Hydrolysate of Pulping Woods. Ind Eng Chem Res 2018. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.7b03953] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Wenjian Guan
- Department
of Chemical Engineering and ‡Department of Biosystems Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 36849, United States
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering and ‡Department of Biosystems Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 36849, United States
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering and ‡Department of Biosystems Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 36849, United States
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering and ‡Department of Biosystems Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 36849, United States
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Joseph RC, Kim NM, Sandoval NR. Recent Developments of the Synthetic Biology Toolkit for Clostridium. Front Microbiol 2018. [PMID: 29483900 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00154/full] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2023] Open
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The Clostridium genus is a large, diverse group consisting of Gram-positive, spore-forming, obligate anaerobic firmicutes. Among this group are historically notorious pathogens as well as several industrially relevant species with the ability to produce chemical commodities, particularly biofuels, from renewable biomass. Additionally, other species are studied for their potential use as therapeutics. Although metabolic engineering and synthetic biology have been instrumental in improving product tolerance, titer, yields, and feed stock consumption capabilities in several organisms, low transformation efficiencies and lack of synthetic biology tools and genetic parts make metabolic engineering within the Clostridium genus difficult. Progress has recently been made to overcome challenges associated with engineering various Clostridium spp. For example, developments in CRISPR tools in multiple species and strains allow greater capability to produce edits with greater precision, faster, and with higher efficiencies. In this mini-review, we will highlight these recent advances and compare them to established methods for genetic engineering in Clostridium. In addition, we discuss the current state and development of Clostridium-based promoters (constitutive and inducible) and reporters. Future progress in this area will enable more rapid development of strain engineering, which would allow for the industrial exploitation of Clostridium for several applications including bioproduction of several commodity products.
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- Rochelle C Joseph
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, United States
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- Interdisciplinary Bioinnovation PhD Program, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, United States
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Plaza PE, Gallego-Morales LJ, Peñuela-Vásquez M, Lucas S, García-Cubero MT, Coca M. Biobutanol production from brewer's spent grain hydrolysates by Clostridium beijerinckii. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2017; 244:166-174. [PMID: 28779668 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2017.07.139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2017] [Revised: 07/21/2017] [Accepted: 07/22/2017] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Brewer's spent grain (BSG) is a promising feedstock for ABE fermentation. Sulfuric acid pretreatment of BSG at pH 1, 121°C and different solid loadings (5-15% w/w) was investigated. Enzymatic hydrolysis and ABE fermentation by Clostridium beijerinckii DSM 6422 of non-washed and washed pretreated BSG were performed to compare monosaccharide release and butanol production. Pretreatment at 15% w/w BSG resulted in higher availability of sugars in both the enzymatic hydrolysates and pretreatment liquid, and overall yields of 75gbutanol/kg BSG and 95gABE/kg BSG were obtained. When the enzymatic hydrolysate from the washed pretreated BSG was fermented, butanol (6.0±0.5g/L) and ABE (7.4±1.0g/L) concentrations were lower compared with 7.5±0.6g/L butanol and 10.0±0.8g/L ABE from a control. The fermentation of the liquid released in the pretreatment at 15% w/w resulted in a butanol production of 6.6±0.8g/L with a total ABE of 8.6±1.3g/L after overliming.
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- Pedro E Plaza
- Departamento de Ingeniería Química y Tecnología del Medio Ambiente, Universidad de Valladolid, c/Dr. Mergelina s/n, 47011 Valladolid, Spain
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- Grupo Procesos Químicos Industriales, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de Antioquia U de A, C/ 70 # 52-21, Medellín, Colombia
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- Grupo Bioprocesos, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de Antioquia U de A, C/ 70 # 52-21, Medellín, Colombia
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- Departamento de Ingeniería Química y Tecnología del Medio Ambiente, Universidad de Valladolid, c/Dr. Mergelina s/n, 47011 Valladolid, Spain
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- Departamento de Ingeniería Química y Tecnología del Medio Ambiente, Universidad de Valladolid, c/Dr. Mergelina s/n, 47011 Valladolid, Spain
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- Departamento de Ingeniería Química y Tecnología del Medio Ambiente, Universidad de Valladolid, c/Dr. Mergelina s/n, 47011 Valladolid, Spain.
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Lee JE, Vadlani PV, Guragain YN, San KY, Min DH. Production of free fatty acids from switchgrass using recombinant Escherichia coli. Biotechnol Prog 2017; 34:91-98. [DOI: 10.1002/btpr.2569] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2017] [Revised: 08/24/2017] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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- Jung-Eun Lee
- Bioprocessing and Renewable Energy Laboratory, Department of Grain Science and Industry; Kansas State University; Manhattan Kansas
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- Bioprocessing and Renewable Energy Laboratory, Department of Grain Science and Industry; Kansas State University; Manhattan Kansas
- Department of Chemical Engineering; Kansas State University; Manhattan Kansas
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- Bioprocessing and Renewable Energy Laboratory, Department of Grain Science and Industry; Kansas State University; Manhattan Kansas
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- Department of Bioengineering; Rice University; Houston Texas
- Department of Chemical and Molecular Engineering; Rice University; Houston Texas
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- Department of Agronomy; Kansas State University; Manhattan Kansas
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Zhang J, Yu L, Lin M, Yan Q, Yang ST. n-Butanol production from sucrose and sugarcane juice by engineered Clostridium tyrobutyricum overexpressing sucrose catabolism genes and adhE2. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2017; 233:51-57. [PMID: 28258996 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2017.02.079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2016] [Revised: 02/16/2017] [Accepted: 02/17/2017] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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The production of n-butanol from sugarcane juice by metabolically engineered Clostridium tyrobutyricum Ct(Δack)-pscrBAK overexpressing scr operon genes (scrB, scrA, and scrK) for sucrose catabolism and an aldehyde/alcohol dehydrogenase gene (adhE2) for butanol biosynthesis was studied with corn steep liquor (CSL) as a low-cost nitrogen source. In free cell fermentation, butanol production of ∼16g/L at a yield of 0.31±0.02g/g and productivity of 0.33±0.02g/L·h was obtained from sucrose and yield of 0.24±0.02g/g and productivity of 0.30±0.01g/L·h from sugarcane juice containing sucrose, glucose and fructose. The fermentation was also studied in a fibrous bed bioreactor (FBB) operated in a repeated batch mode for 10 consecutive cycles in 10days, achieving an average butanol yield of 0.21±0.02g/g and productivity of 0.53±0.05g/L·h from sugarcane juice, demonstrating its long-term stability without applying the antibiotic selection pressure.
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- Jianzhi Zhang
- Bioresource Utilization Laboratory, College of Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, PR China; William G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio State University, 151 West Woodruff Ave., Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- William G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio State University, 151 West Woodruff Ave., Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Bioprocessing Innovative Company, 4734 Bridle Path Ct., Dublin, OH 43017, USA
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- Bioresource Utilization Laboratory, College of Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, PR China
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- William G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio State University, 151 West Woodruff Ave., Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
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Rorke DCS, Suinyuy TN, Gueguim Kana EB. Microwave-assisted chemical pre-treatment of waste sorghum leaves: Process optimization and development of an intelligent model for determination of volatile compound fractions. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2017; 224:590-600. [PMID: 27810249 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2016.10.048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2016] [Revised: 10/15/2016] [Accepted: 10/17/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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This study reports the profiling of volatile compounds generated during microwave-assisted chemical pre-treatment of sorghum leaves. Compounds including acetic acid (0-186.26ng/g SL), furfural (0-240.80ng/g SL), 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) (0-19.20ng/g SL) and phenol (0-7.76ng/g SL) were detected. The reducing sugar production was optimized. An intelligent model based on Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) was developed and validated to predict a profile of 21 volatile compounds under novel pre-treatment conditions. This model gave R2-values of up to 0.93. Knowledge extraction revealed furfural and phenol exhibited high sensitivity to acid- and alkali concentration and S:L ratio, while phenol showed high sensitivity to microwave duration and intensity. Furthermore, furfural production was majorly dependent on acid concentration and fit a dosage-response relationship model with a 2.5% HCl threshold. Significant non-linearities were observed between pre-treatment conditions and the profile of various compounds. This tool reduces analytical costs through virtual analytical instrumentation, improving process economics.
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- Daneal C S Rorke
- School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
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- School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
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- School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
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Xue C, Liu F, Xu M, Tang IC, Zhao J, Bai F, Yang ST. Butanol production in acetone-butanol-ethanol fermentation with in situ product recovery by adsorption. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2016; 219:158-168. [PMID: 27484672 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2016.07.111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2016] [Revised: 07/25/2016] [Accepted: 07/26/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Activated carbon Norit ROW 0.8, zeolite CBV901, and polymeric resins Dowex Optipore L-493 and SD-2 with high specific loadings and partition coefficients were studied for n-butanol adsorption. Adsorption isotherms were found to follow Langmuir model, which can be used to estimate the amount of butanol adsorbed in acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation. In serum-bottle fermentation with in situ adsorption, activated carbon showed the best performance with 21.9g/L of butanol production. When operated in a fermentor, free- and immobilized-cell fermentations with adsorption produced 31.6g/L and 54.6g/L butanol with productivities of 0.30g/L·h and 0.45g/L·h, respectively. Thermal desorption produced a condensate containing ∼167g/L butanol, which resulted in a highly concentrated butanol solution of ∼640g/L after spontaneous phase separation. This in situ product recovery process with activated carbon is energy efficient and can be easily integrated with ABE fermentation for n-butanol production.
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- Chuang Xue
- Department of Life Science and Biotechnology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China; Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio State University, 151 West Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio State University, 151 West Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio State University, 151 West Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Bioprocessing Innovative Company, 4734 Bridle Path Court, Dublin, OH 43017, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio State University, 151 West Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Department of Life Science and Biotechnology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio State University, 151 West Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
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Wang Y, Guo W, Cheng CL, Ho SH, Chang JS, Ren N. Enhancing bio-butanol production from biomass of Chlorella vulgaris JSC-6 with sequential alkali pretreatment and acid hydrolysis. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2016; 200:557-564. [PMID: 26528906 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2015.10.056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2015] [Revised: 10/09/2015] [Accepted: 10/10/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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This study presents a successful butanol production method using alkali and acid pretreated biomass of Chlorella vulgaris JSC-6. The butanol concentration, yield, and productivity were 13.1g/L, 0.58mol/mol sugar, 0.66g/L/h, respectively. Nearly 2.93L/L of biohydrogen was produced during the acidogenesis phase in ABE fermentation. The hydrogen yield and productivity were 0.39mol/mol sugar and 104.2g/L/h respectively. In addition, the high glucose consumption efficiency (97.5%) suggests that the hydrolysate pretreated with NaOH (1%) followed by H2SO4 (3%) did not contain inhibitors to the fermentation. It was also discovered that an excess amount of nitrogen sources arising from hydrolysis of highly concentrated microalgal biomass negatively affected the butanol production. This work demonstrates the technical feasibility of producing butanol from sustainable third-generation feedstock (i.e., microalgal biomass).
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- Yue Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China; Department of Chemical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan; Research Center for Energy Technology and Strategy, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan.
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
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Wang Y, Guo W, Chen BY, Cheng CL, Lo YC, Ho SH, Chang JS, Ren N. Exploring the inhibitory characteristics of acid hydrolysates upon butanol fermentation: A toxicological assessment. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2015; 198:571-576. [PMID: 26433154 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2015.09.075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2015] [Revised: 09/16/2015] [Accepted: 09/20/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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This study aimed to quantitatively evaluate the inhibitor tolerance of butanol-producing bacterium Clostridium acetobutylicum. The inhibitory effect of the inhibitors generated by acid pretreatment of biomass feedstock on butanol fermentation decreased in the order of formic acid>oxalic acid>furfural>5-HMF>Na2SO4. C. acetobutylicum has a small tolerance range for furfural (1.06-2.6g/L) and 5-HMF (1.99-2.3g/L). However, the inhibitory effect of Na2SO4 appears to have a wide range, with a chronic toxicity for C. acetobutylicum. All the results could explain, in quantitative manner, the instability of butanol fermentation with C. acetobutylicum from various acid-pretreated feedstocks caused by the fermentation inhibitors.
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- Yue Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
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- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, National I-Lan University, I-Lan 260, Taiwan
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China; Department of Chemical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan; Research Center for Energy Technology and Strategy, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan.
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
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Silveira MHL, Morais ARC, da Costa Lopes AM, Olekszyszen DN, Bogel-Łukasik R, Andreaus J, Pereira Ramos L. Current Pretreatment Technologies for the Development of Cellulosic Ethanol and Biorefineries. CHEMSUSCHEM 2015; 8:3366-90. [PMID: 26365899 DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201500282] [Citation(s) in RCA: 148] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2015] [Revised: 06/03/2015] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Lignocellulosic materials, such as forest, agriculture, and agroindustrial residues, are among the most important resources for biorefineries to provide fuels, chemicals, and materials in such a way to substitute for, at least in part, the role of petrochemistry in modern society. Most of these sustainable biorefinery products can be produced from plant polysaccharides (glucans, hemicelluloses, starch, and pectic materials) and lignin. In this scenario, cellulosic ethanol has been considered for decades as one of the most promising alternatives to mitigate fossil fuel dependence and carbon dioxide accumulation in the atmosphere. However, a pretreatment method is required to overcome the physical and chemical barriers that exist in the lignin-carbohydrate composite and to render most, if not all, of the plant cell wall components easily available for conversion into valuable products, including the fuel ethanol. Hence, pretreatment is a key step for an economically viable biorefinery. Successful pretreatment method must lead to partial or total separation of the lignocellulosic components, increasing the accessibility of holocellulose to enzymatic hydrolysis with the least inhibitory compounds being released for subsequent steps of enzymatic hydrolysis and fermentation. Each pretreatment technology has a different specificity against both carbohydrates and lignin and may or may not be efficient for different types of biomasses. Furthermore, it is also desirable to develop pretreatment methods with chemicals that are greener and effluent streams that have a lower impact on the environment. This paper provides an overview of the most important pretreatment methods available, including those that are based on the use of green solvents (supercritical fluids and ionic liquids).
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- Marcos Henrique Luciano Silveira
- CEPESQ, Research Center in Applied Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, PR, 81531-970, Brazil
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- Unit of Bioenergy, National Laboratory of Energy and Geology, 1649-038, Lisbon, Portugal
- LAQV/REQUIMTE, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, New University of Lisbon, 2829-516, Caparica, Portugal
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- Unit of Bioenergy, National Laboratory of Energy and Geology, 1649-038, Lisbon, Portugal
- LAQV/REQUIMTE, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, New University of Lisbon, 2829-516, Caparica, Portugal
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- Unit of Bioenergy, National Laboratory of Energy and Geology, 1649-038, Lisbon, Portugal.
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- Department of Chemistry, Regional University of Blumenau, Blumenau, SC, 89012 900, Brazil.
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- CEPESQ, Research Center in Applied Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, PR, 81531-970, Brazil.
- INCT Energy and Environment (INCT E&A), Department of Chemistry, Federal University of Paraná.
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Di Pietrantonio K, Coccia F, Tonucci L, d'Alessandro N, Bressan M. Hydrogenation of allyl alcohols catalyzed by aqueous palladium and platinum nanoparticles. RSC Adv 2015. [DOI: 10.1039/c5ra13840j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Hydrogenations of allyl alcohols in aqueous media, at room temperature and pressure, were performed in presence of Pd or Pt lignin nanoparticles as catalysts to obtain saturated alcohols.
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- Department of Engineering and Geology
- G. d'Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara
- Italy
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- Department of Philosophical
- Educational and Economic Sciences
- G. d'Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara
- Italy
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- Department of Engineering and Geology
- G. d'Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara
- Italy
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- Department of Engineering and Geology
- G. d'Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara
- Italy
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