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The study was focused on developing a continuous method to produce an alcohol mixture suitable to be used as a gasoline supplement. The immobilized column reactor with wood pulp fibers was successfully used for the continuous production of butanol and isopropanol using Clostridium beijerinckii DSM 6423. A sugar mixture (glucose, mannose, galactose, arabinose and xylose) representing lignocellulose hydrolysate was used as a substrate for the production of solvents. The effect of dilution rate on solvent production was studied during continuous operation. The maximum total solvent concentration of 11.99 g/l was obtained at a dilution rate of 0.16 h. The maximum solvent productivity (5.58 g/l h) was obtained at a dilution rate of 1.5 h. The maximum solvent yield of 0.45 g/g from sugar mixture was observed at 0.25 h. The system will be further used for the solvent production using wood hydrolysate as a substrate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cephamycin C is an extracellular broad spectrum β-lactam antibiotic produced by Streptomyces clavuligerus, S. cattleya and Nocardia lactamdurans. In the present study, different substrates for solid-state fermentation were screened for maximum cephamycin C production by S. clavuligerus NT4. The fermentation parameters such as substrate concentration, moisture content, potassium dihydrogen phosphate, inoculum size and ammonium oxalate were optimized by response surface methodology (RSM). The optimized conditions yielded 21.68 ± 0.76 mg gds−1 of cephamycin C as compared to 10.50 ± 1.04 mg gds−1 before optimization. Effect of various amino acids on cephamycin C production was further studied by using RSM, which resulted in increased yield of 27.41 ± 0.65 mg gds−1. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]