World energy demand is expected to increase by up to 40% by 2035. Over this period, the
global population is also expected to increase by a billion people. A challenge facing the …

There is an immediate need to drastically reduce the emissions associated with global fossil
fuel consumption in order to limit climate change. However, carbon-based materials …

Highlights•Autotrophic acetogens, carboxidotrophs, and methanotrophs can grow on CO,
CO 2 or CH 4.•Gas fermentation allows an economic production of commodity chemicals …

Costs for biotechnological processes in general are largely dictated by substrate prices.
Thus, especially production of bulk chemicals from sugar or molasses suffers economically …

Low carbon fuels and chemicals can be sourced from renewable materials such as biomass
or from industrial and municipal waste streams. Gasification of these materials allows all of …

The use of gas fermentation for the production of low carbon biofuels such as ethanol or
butanol from lignocellulosic biomass is an area currently undergoing intensive research and …

Biotechnological fermentation is a well‐established process, however, it is far from being
fully understood and exploited. A new area of fermentation technology that has evolved over …

Autotrophic acetogenic bacteria are able to capture carbon (CO or CO 2) through gas
fermentation, allowing them to grow on a spectrum of waste gases from industry (eg, steel …

Owing to rising levels of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere and oceans, climate change
poses significant environmental, economic, and social challenges globally. Technologies …

A significant portion of biomass sources like straw and wood is poorly degradable and
cannot be converted to biofuels by microorganisms. The gasification of this waste material to …