Biomass, the only source of renewable organic carbon on Earth, offers an efficient substrate
for bio-based organic acid production as an alternative to the leading petrochemical industry …

Microbial biomanufacturing is a promising approach to produce high-value compounds with
low-carbon footprint and significant economic benefits. Among twelve “Top Value-Added …

Background Itaconic acid is an unsaturated, dicarboxylic acid which finds a wide range of
applications in the polymer industry and as a building block for fuels, solvents and …

Organosolv fractionation (OF) is a promising method for lignocellulosic biomass biorefining
to produce biofuels, biochemicals, and biomaterials. The fractionated polymeric components …

This work presents a novel approach for the recovery of succinic acid from aqueous
solutions by electrochemically induced extraction and crystallization. The suggested process …

Excessive foaming causes instabilities in fermentation processes, particularly when
producing biosurfactants, which can be overcome by intensifying the fermentation via insitu …

Bio-based bulk chemicals such as carboxylic acids continue to struggle to compete with their
fossil counterparts on an economic basis. One possibility to improve the economic feasibility …

Renewable raw materials in sustainable biorefinery processes pose new challenges to the
manufacturing routes of platform chemicals. Beside the investigations of individual unit …

Biotechnological production of platform chemicals such as (di) carboxylic acids poses
economic and environmental challenges in downstream processing. With conventional …

Liquid-liquid extraction (LLE) has been commonly used to purify products downstream in
bioprocess. LLE can be operated in different modes. We specifically focus on two modes:(1) …