1. Butanol production from lignocellulosics.
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Jurgens, German, Survase, Shrikant, Berezina, Oxana, Sklavounos, Evangelos, Linnekoski, Juha, Kurkijärvi, Antti, Väkevä, Minna, Heiningen, Adriaan, and Granström, Tom
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BUTANOL ,LIGNOCELLULOSE ,FEEDSTOCK ,CLOSTRIDIUM acetobutylicum ,HEMICELLULOSE ,FERMENTATION - Abstract
Clostridium spp. produce n-butanol in the acetone/butanol/ethanol process. For sustainable industrial scale butanol production, a number of obstacles need to be addressed including choice of feedstock, the low product yield, toxicity to production strain, multiple-end products and downstream processing of alcohol mixtures. This review describes the use of lignocellulosic feedstocks, bioprocess and metabolic engineering, downstream processing and catalytic refining of n-butanol. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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