Butanol production from renewable biomass: rediscovery of metabolic pathways and metabolic engineering

YS Jang, J Lee, A Malaviya, DY Seung… - Biotechnology …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Biofuel from renewable biomass is one of the answers to help solve the problems
associated with limited fossil resources and climate change. Butanol has superior liquid‐fuel …

Continuous butanol production with reduced byproducts formation from glycerol by a hyper producing mutant of Clostridium pasteurianum

A Malaviya, YS Jang, SY Lee - Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2012 - Springer
Butanol, a four-carbon primary alcohol (C 4 H 10 O), is an important industrial chemical and
has a good potential to be used as a superior biofuel. Bio-based production of butanol from …

Alone or together? A review on pure and mixed microbial cultures for butanol production

T Pinto, X Flores-Alsina, KV Gernaey… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Over the past decades, biotechnological processes have significantly improved and enabled
societies to move closer to a bio-based economy, no longer dependent on liquid fossil fuels …

Metabolic engineering of Clostridium thermocellum for n-butanol production from cellulose

L Tian, PM Conway, ND Cervenka, J Cui… - Biotechnology for …, 2019 - Springer
Background Biofuel production from plant cell walls offers the potential for sustainable and
economically attractive alternatives to petroleum-based products. In particular, Clostridium …

Improving the pervaporation performance of PDMS membranes for n-butanol by incorporating silane-modified ZIF-8 particles

S Li, Z Chen, Y Yang, Z Si, P Li, P Qin, T Tan - Separation and Purification …, 2019 - Elsevier
The hydrophobicity of porous particles is important for the performance of mixed-matrix
membranes for pervaporation separation of n-butanol aqueous solution. Here, a strategy …

[HTML][HTML] Butanol production in a first-generation Brazilian sugarcane biorefinery: technical aspects and economics of greenfield projects

AP Mariano, MOS Dias, TL Junqueira, MP Cunha… - Bioresource …, 2013 - Elsevier
The techno-economics of greenfield projects of a first-generation sugarcane biorefinery
aimed to produce ethanol, sugar, power, and n-butanol was conducted taking into account …

Solvent-producing clostridia revisited

DT Jones, F Schulz, S Roux, SD Brown - Microorganisms, 2023 - mdpi.com
The review provides an overview of the current status of the solvent-producing clostridia.
The origin and development of industrial clostridial species, as well as the history of the …

Butanol production from hydrothermolysis-pretreated switchgrass: quantification of inhibitors and detoxification of hydrolyzate

K Liu, HK Atiyeh, O Pardo-Planas, TC Ezeji, V Ujor… - Bioresource …, 2015 - Elsevier
The present study evaluated butanol production from switchgrass based on
hydrothermolysis pretreatment. The inhibitors present in the hydrolyzates were measured …

Trends and advances in conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to biobutanol: microbes, bioprocesses and industrial viability

LD Gottumukkala, K Haigh, J Görgens - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2017 - Elsevier
Biobutanol has gained attention as an alternative renewable transportation fuel for its
superior fuel properties and widespread applications in chemical industry, primarily as a …

Impacts of Acetone–Butanol–Ethanol (ABE) ratio on spray and combustion characteristics of ABE–diesel blends

H Wu, K Nithyanandan, J Zhang, Y Lin, TH Lee… - Applied Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Acetone–Butanol–Ethanol (ABE), the intermediate product while producing bio-
butanol, has been proposed to be used as an alternative fuel directly to reduce the butanol …