Gas fermentation—a flexible platform for commercial scale production of low-carbon-fuels and chemicals from waste and renewable feedstocks

FM Liew, ME Martin, RC Tappel, BD Heijstra… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
There is an immediate need to drastically reduce the emissions associated with global fossil
fuel consumption in order to limit climate change. However, carbon-based materials …

Innovative pretreatment strategies for biogas production

RJ Patinvoh, OA Osadolor, K Chandolias… - Bioresource …, 2017 - Elsevier
Biogas or biomethane is traditionally produced via anaerobic digestion, or recently by
thermochemical or a combination of thermochemical and biological processes via syngas …

Butanol and hexanol production in Clostridium carboxidivorans syngas fermentation: medium development and culture techniques

JR Phillips, HK Atiyeh, RS Tanner, JR Torres… - Bioresource …, 2015 - Elsevier
Clostridium carboxidivorans was grown on model syngas (CO: H 2: CO 2 [70: 20: 10]) in a
defined nutrient medium with concentrations of nitrogen, phosphate and trace metals …

Valorization of C1 gases to value-added chemicals using acetogenic biocatalysts

J Bae, Y Song, H Lee, J Shin, S Jin, S Kang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
In times of global warming and upcoming fossil fuel shortages, the demand for the
replacement of current fossil fuel-based chemical production via the development of …

A Narrow pH Range Supports Butanol, Hexanol, and Octanol Production from Syngas in a Continuous Co-culture of Clostridium ljungdahlii and Clostridium kluyveri …

H Richter, B Molitor, M Diender, DZ Sousa… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Carboxydotrophic bacteria (CTB) have received attention due to their ability to synthesize
commodity chemicals from producer gas and synthesis gas (syngas). CTB have an …

High n-caprylate productivities and specificities from dilute ethanol and acetate: chain elongation with microbiomes to upgrade products from syngas fermentation

LA Kucek, CM Spirito, LT Angenent - Energy & Environmental Science, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Past studies on chain elongation by reactor microbiomes have shown promising
productivities and specificities of n-caproate, which is a six-carbon (C6) medium-chain …

Upgrading syngas fermentation effluent using Clostridium kluyveri in a continuous fermentation

S Gildemyn, B Molitor, JG Usack, M Nguyen… - Biotechnology for …, 2017 - Springer
Background The product of current syngas fermentation systems is an ethanol/acetic acid
mixture and the goal is to maximize ethanol recovery. However, ethanol currently has a …

Biochemicals from food waste and recalcitrant biomass via syngas fermentation: a review

S Wainaina, IS Horváth, MJ Taherzadeh - Bioresource technology, 2018 - Elsevier
An effective method for the production of value-added chemicals from food waste and
lignocellulosic materials is a hybrid thermal-biological process, which involves gasification …

Long-chain alcohol production in open culture anaerobic fermentation

L Wu, W Wei, Z Chen, X Chen, BJ Ni - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
The continuously rising energy prices and the growth in petroleum consumption have
induced the pertinent pursuit of producing alternative fuels. Utilizing long-chain alcohols …

In-line and selective phase separation of medium-chain carboxylic acids using membrane electrolysis

J Xu, JJL Guzman, SJ Andersen, K Rabaey… - Chemical …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
We had extracted n-caproate from bioreactor broth. Here, we introduced in-line membrane
electrolysis that utilized a pH gradient between two chambers to transfer the product into …