Butanol production from lignocellulosics

Biotechnology Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1415-1434

  Jurgens, German ^a   Survase, Shrikant ^a   Berezina, Oxana ^b   Sklavounos, Evangelos ^a   Linnekoski, Juha ^a   Kurkijärvi, Antti ^a   Väkevä, Minna ^a   van Heiningen, Adriaan ^a,c   Granström, Tom ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b STATE RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND SELECTION OF INDUSTRIAL MICROORGANISMS   (Russian Federation)

^c University of Maine   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetone butanol ethanol fermentation; Butanol; Chemical catalysis; Downstream processing; Lignocellulosics

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL MIXTURES; BIOPROCESSES; CHEMICAL CATALYSIS; DOWNSTREAM-PROCESSING; INDUSTRIAL SCALE; LIGNO-CELLULOSICS; LIGNOCELLULOSIC FEEDSTOCKS; N-BUTANOL; PRODUCT YIELDS; PRODUCTION STRAIN;

BUTENES; FEEDSTOCKS; REFINING;

ALCOHOLS;

BIOFUEL; BUTANOL; LIGNIN; LIGNOCELLULOSE;

CLOSTRIDIUM; FERMENTATION; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; REVIEW;

BIOFUELS; BUTANOLS; CLOSTRIDIUM; FERMENTATION; INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY; LIGNIN; METABOLIC ENGINEERING;

CLOSTRIDIUM;

EID: 84864379333     PISSN: 01415492     EISSN: 15736776     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10529-012-0926-3     Document Type: Review

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