Fermentative butanol production by clostridia
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology · Intelligent Synthetic Biology Center · +2 more institutions
Abstract
Butanol is an aliphatic saturated alcohol having the molecular formula of C(4)H(9)OH. Butanol can be used as an intermediate in chemical synthesis and as a solvent for a wide variety of chemical and textile industry applications. Moreover, butanol has been considered as a potential fuel or fuel additive. Biological production of butanol (with acetone and ethanol) was one of the largest industrial fermentation processes early in the 20th century. However, fermentative production of butanol had lost its competitiveness by 1960s due to increasing substrate costs and the advent of more efficient petrochemical processes. Recently, increasing demand for the use of renewable resources as feedstock for the production…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 30.76
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 154
Authors
6- SYSang Yup LeeCorresponding
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Intelligent Synthetic Biology Center
- JHJin Hwan Park
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Intelligent Synthetic Biology Center
- SHSeh Hee Jang
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Intelligent Synthetic Biology Center
- LKLars K. Nielsen
The University of Queensland
- JHJae Hyun Kim
GS Caltex (South Korea)
Topics & keywords
- Butanol
- Petrochemical
- Biochemical engineering
- Raw material
- Clostridia
- Metabolic engineering
- Fermentation
- Biofuel