The Clostridium Thermocellum-Clostridium Thermosaccharolyticum Ethanol Production Process: Nutritional Studies and Scale-Down

Chemical Engineering Communications

Volumn 45, Issue 1-6, 1986, Pages 53-60

  Venkateswaran, Saraswathy ^a   Demain, Arnold L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellulase; Clostridium thermocellum; Clostridium thermosaccharolvticum; Ethanol production; Scale down

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010375301     PISSN: 00986445     EISSN: 15635201     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00986448608911371     Document Type: Article

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