Higher alcohols production platforms : from strain development to process design /

Higher Alcohols Production Platforms: From Strain Development to Process Design comprehensively covers the production of higher alcohols, from the fundamentals to the latest research.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors:	Amiri, Hamid, Tabatabaei, Meisam, Nizami, Abdul-Sattar
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London ; San Diego, CA : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, [2024]
Series:	Biomass and biofuels series.
Subjects:	Alcohols. Alcools. Alcohols Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Front Cover
Higher Alcohols Production Platforms
Copyright Page
Contents
List of contributors
Preface
1 Higher alcohols: applications as fuels and chemicals
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Higher alcohols as biofuels
1.3 Potentials of higher alcohols in synthetic chemistry
1.4 Potentials of higher alcohols as solvents
1.5 Conclusions
References
2 Higher alcohols: metabolic pathways and engineering strategies for enhanced production
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Butanol production in Clostridium species
2.2.1 The metabolic pathway for butanol biosynthesis
2.2.2 Metabolic engineering of microorganisms for butanol production
2.2.2.1 Metabolic engineering of C. acetobutylicum for butanol production
2.2.2.2 Metabolic engineering of other Clostridium species for butanol production
2.2.3 Metabolic engineering of Clostridium species for direct conversion of cellulose
2.2.4 Metabolic engineering of non-Clostridium species
2.2.4.1 Metabolic engineering of S. cerevisiae for butanol production
2.2.4.2 Metabolic engineering of E. coli for butanol production
2.3 Microbial production of 2-butanol
2.4 Microbial production of branched-chain higher alcohols
2.4.1 Metabolic engineering for isobutanol production
2.4.2 Metabolic engineering for the production of other branched higher alcohols
2.4.3 Metabolic engineering for the production of isoprenoid-based higher alcohols
2.4.4 Metabolic engineering for nonnatural branched-chain higher alcohols production
2.5 Conclusions
References
3 Feedstocks for higher alcohol production
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Higher alcohol synthesis: general aspects
3.3 Glycerol as feedstock
3.4 Pretreatments
3.4.1 Glycerol for higher alcohol production
3.5 Agroindustrial wastes as raw materials for the production of higher alcohols.
3.5.1 Lignocellulosic biomass as a raw material for the production of higher alcohols
3.5.1.1 Definition and composition of lignocellulosic biomass
3.5.1.2 Lignocellulosic waste treatments
3.5.1.3 Applications
3.5.2 Protein agroindustrial waste as raw material for higher alcohol production
3.5.3 Challenges
3.6 Algae as photosynthetic feedstocks
3.6.1 Classification
3.6.2 Algal substrates for higher alcohol production
3.6.3 Pretreatments
3.6.4 Applications
3.6.5 Challenges
3.7 Carbon dioxide as feedstock
3.8 Syngas for the production of higher alcohols
3.8.1 Syngas for higher alcohol production
3.9 Conclusions
References
4 Sugar fermentation: C2 (ethanolic) platform
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Technologies for the biological production of ethanol
4.2.1 Microorganism
4.2.2 Production process
4.2.3 Recovery and Separation
4.3 The substrate issues
4.3.1 Molasses
4.3.2 Lignocellulose
4.3.3 Algae
4.4 Biological pathways for ethanol production
4.5 Synthetic biology and metabolic engineering for enhanced ethanol production
4.5.1 Zymomonas mobilis
4.5.2 Escherichia coli
4.5.3 Saccharomyces cerevisiae
4.6 Application of coculture for ethanol production
4.7 Conclusions
References
5 Sugar fermentation: C4 platforms
5.1 Introduction
5.1.1 A short history
5.1.2 Butanol as a biofuel
5.2 Biochemistry of n-butanol production
5.3 Biochemistry of isobutanol production
5.4 Challenges in microbial production of n-butanol
5.5 Microorganisms involved in n-butanol and isobutanol production
5.5.1 Clostridia
5.5.2 Zymomonas mobilis
5.5.3 Cyanobacteria
5.5.4 Microbial cocultivations for enhancement of butanol production
5.6 Substrates
5.6.1 Lignocellulosic wastes
5.6.2 Municipal solid wastes
5.6.3 Microalgae.
5.6.4 Process for waste-oriented n-butanol production
5.6.4.1 Pretreatment and detoxification
5.6.4.1.1 Physical pretreatments
5.6.4.1.2 Chemical pretreatments
5.6.4.1.3 Biological pretreatments
5.6.4.2 Enzymatic hydrolysis for n-butanol production
5.7 Process integration for n-butanol production
5.7.1 Simultaneous saccharification and fermentation
5.7.2 Simultaneous butanol separation methods
5.8 Conclusions
References
6 Syngas fermentation platforms: alcohols from syngas and CO2
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Alternative routes to syngas fermentation for the production of alcohols
6.3 Syngas and carbon dioxide (CO2) bioconversion to alcohols
6.3.1 Sources of syngas and CO2
6.3.2 Acetogenic bacteria and C1 gas metabolism
6.3.3 Metabolic pathway
6.3.4 Stimulation of ethanol versus acetic acid accumulation
6.3.5 Analogies between alcohol production from soluble substrates and gases: lessons learned from the ABE fermentation process
6.3.6 Stimulation of alcohol production in gas fermentation
6.3.7 Syngas and CO2 bioconversion into higher alcohols
6.3.8 Cocultures involved in gas fermentation and chain elongation to higher alcohols
6.4 Downstream processing
6.5 Conclusions
Acknowledgments
References
7 Alcohol production: downstream processes
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Distillation for bioalcohol separation
7.2.1 Vapor-liquid equilibriums and the basic distillation sequences
7.2.2 Intensification of the distillation process
7.3 Nondistillation separation techniques
7.3.1 Type I: nondistillation separation based on vapor-liquid equilibrium
7.3.1.1 Gas stripping
7.3.1.2 Vacuum stripping/flash fermentation
7.3.2 Type II: nondistillation separation based on polarity differences
7.3.2.1 Liquid-liquid extraction
7.3.2.2 Cloud point extraction.
7.3.2.3 Salting-out
7.3.3 Type III: membrane-based nondistillation separation techniques
7.3.3.1 Pervaporation
7.3.3.2 Perstraction
7.3.3.3 Reverse osmosis
7.3.3.4 Membrane distillation
7.4 Process integration for alcohols separation
7.5 Conclusions
References
8 Alcohol production process design and scale-up
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Alcohols
8.3 Ethanol
8.3.1 Raw material
8.3.2 Design and scale-up of a bioethanol production process
8.3.3 Pretreatment design
8.3.4 Enzymatic hydrolysis process design
8.3.5 Fermentation process design
8.3.6 Design of the bioethanol separation and purification process
8.3.7 Design of distillation processes for the separation and purification of bioethanol
8.3.8 Sustainable and economical design of a bioethanol production process
8.4 n-Propanol and isopropanol
8.5 Butanol
8.5.1 Raw material
8.5.2 Pretreatment and detoxification design
8.5.3 Fermentation process design
8.5.4 Design of the biobutanol separation and purification process
8.5.5 Design of distillation processes for the separation and purification of biobutanol
8.6 Scaling-up of alcohol production processes and biorefineries
8.7 Conclusions
References
9 Life cycle sustainability assessment of higher alcohol: energy, environmental, and social indicators
9.1 Higher alcohol as an oxygenated additive
9.2 Higher alcohols and their role in exhaust emission of diesel engine
9.3 Sustainability in higher alcohol production
9.3.1 Environmental life cycle assessment
9.3.1.1 Goal and scope definition
9.3.1.2 Inventory data
9.3.1.3 Impact assessment
9.3.1.4 The role of E-LCA in determining the sustainability of higher alcohol production-case studies
9.3.2 Social life cycle assessment
9.4 Conclusions
References.
10 Scope for commercialization and market analysis of bio-based alcohols, fuels, and chemicals
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Products of bio-based alcohols and chemicals
10.2.1 Ethanol
10.2.2 Beyond ethanol
10.2.3 Chemicals
10.3 The market of bio-based fuels and chemicals
10.3.1 Supply and demand
10.3.2 Ethanol market
10.3.3 Methanol Market
10.3.4 Regional correlation between supply and demand
10.4 Factors affecting market
10.5 Challenges and perspectives
10.6 Conclusions
References
Index
Back Cover.