Current status and prospects of industrial bio-production of n-butanol in China

Y Jiang, J Liu, W Jiang, Y Yang, S Yang - Biotechnology advances, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract n-Butanol is an important bulk chemical. Commercial fermentative production of n-
butanol has been applied more than 100 years ago but is currently more costly than …

Pathway dissection, regulation, engineering and application: lessons learned from biobutanol production by solventogenic clostridia

S Li, L Huang, C Ke, Z Pang, L Liu - Biotechnology for biofuels, 2020 - Springer
The global energy crisis and limited supply of petroleum fuels have rekindled the interest in
utilizing a sustainable biomass to produce biofuel. Butanol, an advanced biofuel, is a …

Systems metabolic engineering of Vibrio natriegens for the production of 1, 3-propanediol

Y Zhang, Z Li, Y Liu, X Cen, D Liu, Z Chen - Metabolic Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
The economic viability of current bio-production systems is often limited by its low
productivity due to slow cell growth and low substrate uptake rate. The fastest-growing …

Current progress on engineering microbial strains and consortia for production of cellulosic butanol through consolidated bioprocessing

A Re, R Mazzoli - Microbial Biotechnology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In the last decades, fermentative production of n‐butanol has regained substantial interest
mainly owing to its use as drop‐in‐fuel. The use of lignocellulose as an alternative to …

Enhanced solvent production by metabolic engineering of a twin-clostridial consortium

Z Wen, NP Minton, Y Zhang, Q Li, J Liu, Y Jiang… - Metabolic …, 2017 - Elsevier
The efficient fermentative production of solvents (acetone, n-butanol, and ethanol) from a
lignocellulosic feedstock using a single process microorganism has yet to be demonstrated …

Gas strip**–pervaporation hybrid process for energy-saving product recovery from acetone–butanol–ethanol (ABE) fermentation broth

D Cai, H Chen, C Chen, S Hu, Y Wang, Z Chang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2016 - Elsevier
In this study, an integrated gas strip**–pervaporation (GS–PV) process was established to
enhance the butanol concentration and to reduce the cost of the product separation …

Artificial symbiosis for acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation from alkali extracted deshelled corn cobs by co-culture of Clostridium beijerinckii and Clostridium …

Z Wen, M Wu, Y Lin, L Yang, J Lin, P Cen - Microbial cell factories, 2014 - Springer
Background Butanol is an industrial commodity and also considered to be a more promising
gasoline substitute compared to ethanol. Renewed attention has been paid to solvents …

Production routes of advanced renewable C1 to C4 alcohols as biofuel components–a review

T Schubert - Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In 2018, the EU's revised Renewable Energy Directive came into force, increasing
renewable energy targets for all energy sectors while limiting the use of first‐generation …

Engineering Clostridium acetobutylicum with a histidine kinase knockout for enhanced n-butanol tolerance and production

M Xu, J Zhao, L Yu, IC Tang, C Xue… - Applied microbiology and …, 2015 - Springer
Clostridium acetobutylicum JB200, a mutant strain of C. acetobutylicum ATCC 55025
obtained through strain evolution in a fibrous bed bioreactor, had high butanol tolerance and …

Butanol production from wood pul** hydrolysate in an integrated fermentation–gas strip** process

C Lu, J Dong, ST Yang - Bioresource technology, 2013 - Elsevier
Wood pul** hydrolysate (WPH) containing mainly xylose and glucose as a potential
substrate for acetone–butanol–ethanol (ABE) fermentation was studied. Due to the inhibitors …