Chapter title |
Anaerobic Fermentation for Production of Carboxylic Acids as Bulk Chemicals from Renewable Biomass
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Chapter number | 5009 |
Book title |
Anaerobes in Biotechnology
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Published in |
Advances in biochemical engineering biotechnology, January 2016
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DOI | 10.1007/10_2015_5009 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-3-31-945649-2, 978-3-31-945651-5
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Authors |
Jufang Wang, Meng Lin, Mengmeng Xu, Shang-Tian Yang, Wang, Jufang, Lin, Meng, Xu, Mengmeng, Yang, Shang-Tian |
Abstract |
Biomass represents an abundant carbon-neutral renewable resource which can be converted to bulk chemicals to replace petrochemicals. Carboxylic acids have wide applications in the chemical, food, and pharmaceutical industries. This chapter provides an overview of recent advances and challenges in the industrial production of various types of carboxylic acids, including short-chain fatty acids (acetic, propionic, butyric), hydroxy acids (lactic, 3-hydroxypropionic), dicarboxylic acids (succinic, malic, fumaric, itaconic, adipic, muconic, glucaric), and others (acrylic, citric, gluconic, pyruvic) by anaerobic fermentation. For economic production of these carboxylic acids as bulk chemicals, the fermentation process must have a sufficiently high product titer, productivity and yield, and low impurity acid byproducts to compete with their petrochemical counterparts. System metabolic engineering offers the tools needed to develop novel strains that can meet these process requirements for converting biomass feedstock to the desirable product. |
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