Advances in bioconversion of glycerol to 1, 3-propanediol: prospects and challenges

YQ Sun, JT Shen, L Yan, JJ Zhou, LL Jiang, Y Chen… - Process …, 2018 - Elsevier
Propanediol, a monomer for synthesis of polytrimethylene terephthalate, polyethers,
polyurethanes, and heterocyclic compounds, has attracted worldwide attention. It can be …

A review on microbial 1, 3-propanediol production: Emerging strategies, key hurdles and attainable solutions to re-establish its commercial interest

PR Nimbalkar, MS Dharne - Industrial Crops and Products, 2024 - Elsevier
propanediol (1, 3-PDO) is a vital value-added bi-functional compound that has numerous
uses in the industrial sector including the polymer, pharmaceutical, food, and cosmetics …

More value from food waste: Lactic acid and biogas recovery

MS Kim, JG Na, MK Lee, H Ryu, YK Chang, JM Triolo… - Water research, 2016 - Elsevier
Anaerobic digestion (AD) is one of the traditional technologies for treating organic solid
wastes, but its economic benefit is sometimes questioned. To increase the economic …

Homogeneous metal salt solutions for biomass upgrading and other select organic reactions

N Rodriguez Quiroz, AM Norton, H Nguyen… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The growing interest in biomass as a renewable feedstock drives research toward
innovative processes and performance-advantaged bioproducts. Homogeneous metal salt …

Microbial production of lactic acid

MA Eiteman, S Ramalingam - Biotechnology letters, 2015 - Springer
Lactic acid is an important commodity chemical having a wide range of applications.
Microbial production effectively competes with chemical synthesis methods because …

Understanding the dewatering of fermentation-based 1, 3-propanediol with acetone before cyclohexanone synthesis

G Zhou, J Tan, M Zhu, C **e, B Yang, H Huang… - Journal of Industrial and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Acetone can be produced by microbial fermentation using Clostridium acetobutylicum
(acetone-n-butanol-ethanol fermentation, ABE fermentation), but it provides a mixture of …

A review of salting-out effect and sugaring-out effect: driving forces for novel liquid-liquid extraction of biofuels and biochemicals

C Fu, Z Li, Z Sun, S **e - Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering, 2021 - Springer
Biofuels and bio-based chemicals are getting more and more attention because of their
sustainable and renewable properties and wide industrial applications. However, the low …

Advances in biosynthesis and downstream processing of diols

Y Liu, C Zhang, AP Zeng - Biotechnology Advances, 2024 - Elsevier
Diols are important platform chemicals with a wide range of applications in the fields of
chemical and pharmaceutical industries, food, feed and cosmetics. In particular, 1, 3 …

A novel downstream process for highly pure 1,3‐propanediol from an efficient fed‐batch fermentation of raw glycerol by Clostridium pasteurianum

C Zhang, S Sharma, W Wang… - Engineering in life …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
An efficient downstream process without prior desalination was developed for recovering 1,
3‐propanediol (1, 3‐PDO) with high purity and yield from broth of a highly productive fed …

Two-step salting-out extraction of 1, 3-propanediol, butyric acid and acetic acid from fermentation broths

Z Li, L Yan, J Zhou, X Wang, Y Sun, ZL **u - Separation and Purification …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The separation of 1, 3-propanediol (1, 3-PD), butyric acid (BA) and acetic acid
(HAc) from the fermentation broth was studied by two-step salting-out extraction. In the first …