Glycerol utilisation for the production of chemicals: Conversion to succinic acid, a combined experimental and computational study

Biochemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 58-59, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-11

  Vlysidis, Anestis ^a,b   Binns, Michael ^a,b   Webb, Colin ^a,b   Theodoropoulos, Constantinos ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Actinobacillus succinogenes; Biodiesel; Fermentation; Glycerol; Kinetic model; Succinic acid

Indexed keywords

ACTINOBACILLUS SUCCINOGENES; BATCH BIOREACTORS; BATCH EXPERIMENTS; BIODIESEL PRODUCTION; BIOLOGICAL CONVERSION; BIOPROCESSES; BUILDING BLOCKES; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; CONCENTRATION PROFILES; GLOBAL MINIMA; GLYCEROL CONCENTRATION; KINETIC MODEL; OPTIMISATIONS; PARAMETER VALUES; PRODUCT INHIBITION; PRODUCT YIELDS; SOLE CARBON SOURCE; SPECIALTY CHEMICALS; STATE VARIABLES; SUCCINIC ACIDS; UNSTRUCTURED MODEL; VALORISATION;

ACETIC ACID; BIODIESEL; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOREACTORS; EXPERIMENTS; FORMIC ACID; OPTIMIZATION; PRODUCTIVITY;

GLYCEROL;

ACETIC ACID; FORMIC ACID; GLYCEROL; SUCCINIC ACID;

ACTINOBACILLUS; ACTINOBACILLUS SUCCINOGENES; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BATCH REACTOR; BIOMASS; BIOPROCESS; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CARBON SOURCE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PRODUCTIVITY; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ACTINOBACILLUS SUCCINOGENES;

EID: 80054800756     PISSN: 1369703X     EISSN: 1873295X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bej.2011.07.004     Document Type: Article

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