Applied in situ product recovery in ABE fermentation

Outram, Victoria and Lalander, Carl Axel and Lee, Jonathan G.M. and Davies, E. Timothy and Harvey, Adam P. (2017) Applied in situ product recovery in ABE fermentation. Biotechnology Progress, 33 (3). pp. 563-579. ISSN 8756-7938 (https://doi.org/10.1002/btpr.2446)

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Abstract

The production of biobutanol is hindered by the product's toxicity to the bacteria, which limits the productivity of the process. In situ product recovery of butanol can improve the productivity by removing the source of inhibition. This paper reviews in situ product recovery techniques applied to the acetone butanol ethanol fermentation in a stirred tank reactor. Methods of in situ recovery include gas stripping, vacuum fermentation, pervaporation, liquid–liquid extraction, perstraction, and adsorption, all of which have been investigated for the acetone, butanol, and ethanol fermentation. All techniques have shown an improvement in substrate utilization, yield, productivity or both. Different fermentation modes favored different techniques. For batch processing gas stripping and pervaporation were most favorable, but in fed-batch fermentations gas stripping and adsorption were most promising. During continuous processing perstraction appeared to offer the best improvement. The use of hybrid techniques can increase the final product concentration beyond that of single-stage techniques. Therefore, the selection of an in situ product recovery technique would require comparable information on the energy demand and economics of the process.

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Outram, Victoria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0216-6114, Lalander, Carl Axel, Lee, Jonathan G.M., Davies, E. Timothy and Harvey, Adam P.;
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