Energy efficiency and productivity enhancement of microbial electrosynthesis of acetate

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue MAY, 2017, Pages

  LaBelle, Edward V ^a   May, Harold D ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetate; Biocathode; Chemicals from CO2; Hydrogen; Industrial biotechnology; Microbial electrosynthesis

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; CARBON DIOXIDE; HYDROGEN;

ACETOBACTERIUM WOODII; ACIDAMINOCOCCACEAE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BIOCATALYST; BIOFILM; BIOFILM REACTOR; BIOMASS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CATHODE RAY TUBE; CLOSTRIDIALES; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRON; EVAPORATION; FLOW RATE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GAS FLOW; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; INOCULATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL ELECTROSYNTHESIS; MOORELLA THERMOACETICA; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; OPTICAL DENSITY; OXIDATION; PH; PRODUCTIVITY; REACTOR; SURFACE AREA; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 85019690347     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.00756     Document Type: Article

References (59)

1. Ammam, F., Tremblay, P. L., Lizak, D. M., and Zhang, T. (2016). Effect of tungstate on acetate and ethanol production by the electrosynthetic bacterium Sporomusa ovata. Biotechnol. Biofuels 9, 163. doi: 10.1186/s13068-016-0576-0
2. Andersen, S. J., Berton, J. K. E. T., Naert, P., Gildemyn, S., Rabaey, K., and Stevens, C. V. (2016). Extraction and esterification of low-titer short-chain volatile fatty acids from anaerobic fermentation with ionic liquids. ChemSusChem 9, 2059-2063. doi: 10.1002/cssc.201600473
3. Andersen, S. J., Hennebel, T., Gildemyn, S., Coma, M., Desloover, J., Berton, J., et al. (2014). Electrolytic membrane extraction enables production of fine chemicals from biorefinery sidestreams. Environ. Sci. Technol. 48, 7135-7142. doi: 10.1021/es500483w
4. Bergel, A. (2016). How could chemical engineering help in deciphering electromicrobial mechanisms? BIO Web Conf. 6:02005. doi: 10.1051/bioconf/20160602005
5. 2 reduction. Energy Environ. Sci. 8, 3731-3744. doi: 10.1039/C5EE03088A
6. Brown, R. K., Harnisch, F., Wirth, S., Wahlandt, H., Dockhorn, T., Dichtl, N., et al. (2014). Evaluating the effects of scaling up on the performance of bioelectrochemical systems using a technical scale microbial electrolysis cell. Bioresour. Technol. 163, 206-213. doi: 10.1016/j.biortech.2014.04.044
7. Butler, C. S., and Lovley, D. R. (2016). How to sustainably feed a microbe: strategies for biological production of carbon-based commodities with renewable electricity. Front. Microbiol. 7:1879. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01879
8. Conrado, R. J., Haynes, C. A., Haendler, B. E., and Toone, E. J. (2013). "Electrofuels: a new paradigm for renewable fuels, " in Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts, ed. J. W. Lee (New York, NY: Springer Science & Business Media), 1037-1064. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4614-3348-4_38
9. Daniell, J., Köpke, M., and Simpson, S. D. (2012). Commercial biomass syngas fermentation. Energies 5:5372. doi: 10.3390/en5125372
10. Daniell, J., Nagaraju, S., Burton, F., Köpke, M., and Simpson, S. D. (2016). Low-carbon fuel and chemical production by anaerobic gas fermentation. Adv. Biochem. Eng. 156, 293-321.
11. Demler, M., and Weuster-Botz, D. (2011). Reaction engineering analysis of hydrogenotrophic production of acetic acid by Acetobacterium woodii. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 108, 470-474. doi: 10.1002/bit.22935
12. Desloover, J., Arends, J. B. A., Hennebel, T., and Rabaey, K. (2012). Operational and technical considerations for microbial electrosynthesis. Biochem. Soc. Trans. 40, 1233-1238. doi: 10.1042/BST20120111
13. Deutzmann, J. S., Sahin, M., and Spormann, A. M. (2015). Extracellular enzymes facilitate electron uptake in biocorrosion and bioelectrosynthesis. mBio 6:e00496-15. doi: 10.1128/mBio.00496-15
14. Deutzmann, J. S., and Spormann, A. M. (2016). Enhanced microbial electrosynthesis by using defined co-cultures. ISME J. 11, 704-714. doi: 10.1038/ismej.2016.149
15. Dürre, P. (2016). Gas fermentation-a biotechnological solution for today's challenges. Microb. Biotechnol. 10, 14-16. doi: 10.1111/1751-7915.12431
16. 2 conversion electro-biorefinery: a step toward commercialization. Bioresour. Technol. 215, 357-370. doi: 10.1016/j.biortech.2016.03.023
17. 2-fixation pathways to support synthetic biology strategies for production of fuels and chemicals. Curr. Opin. Chem. Eng. 1, 1-16. doi: 10.1016/j.coche.2012.07.005
18. Flexer, V., Chen, J., Donose, B. C., Sherrell, P., Wallace, G. G., and Keller, J. (2013). The nanostructure of three-dimensional scaffolds enhances the current density of microbial bioelectrochemical systems. Energy Environ. Sci. 6, 1291-1298. doi: 10.1039/c3ee00052d
19. Foley, J. M., Rozendal, R. A., Hertle, C. K., Lant, P. A., and Rabaey, K. (2010). Life cycle assessment of high-rate anaerobic treatment, microbial fuel cells, and microbial electrolysis cells. Environ. Sci. Technol. 44, 3629-3637. doi: 10.1021/es100125h
20. Giddings, C. G. S., Nevin, K. P., Woodward, T., Lovley, D. R., and Butler, C. S. (2015). Simplifying microbial electrosynthesis reactor design. Front. Microbiol. 6:468. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00468
21. 2 through microbial electrosynthesis. Environ. Sci. Technol. Lett. 2, 325-328. doi: 10.1021/acs.estlett.5b00212
22. Graves, T., Narendranath, N. V., Dawson, K., and Power, R. (2006). Effect of pH and lactic or acetic acid on ethanol productivity by Saccharomyces cerevisiae in corn mash. J. Ind. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 33, 469-474. doi: 10.1007/s10295-006-0091-6
23. Handler, R. M., Shonnard, D. R., Griffing, E. M., Lai, A., and Palou-Rivera, I. (2016). Life cycle assessments of ethanol production via gas fermentation: anticipated greenhouse gas emissions for cellulosic and waste gas feedstocks. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 55, 3253-3261. doi: 10.1021/acs.iecr.5b03215
24. Harnisch, F., Rosa, L. F. M., Kracke, F., Virdis, B., and Krömer, J. O. (2014). Electrifying white biotechnology: engineering and economic potential of electricity-driven bio-production. ChemSusChem 8, 758-766. doi: 10.1002/cssc.201402736
25. Hu, P., Chakraborty, S., Kumara, A., Woolston, B., Liu, H., Emerson, D., et al. (2016). Integrated bioprocess for conversion of gaseous substrates to liquids. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 113, 3773-3778. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1516867113
26. 2 fixation by the acetogenic bacterium Moorella thermoacetica. AIChE J. 59, 3176-3183. doi: 10.1002/aic.14127
27. IEA (2016). Decoupling of Global Emissions and Economic growth Confirmed. Paris: International Energy Agency.
28. Jourdin, L., Freguia, S., Donose, B. C., Chen, J., Wallace, G. G., Keller, J., et al. (2014). A novel carbon nanotube modified scaffold as an efficient biocathode material for improved microbial electrosynthesis. J. Mater. Chem. A 2, 13093-13102. doi: 10.1039/C4TA03101F
29. Jourdin, L., Grieger, T., Monetti, J., Flexer, V., Freguia, S., Lu, Y., et al. (2015). High acetic acid production rate obtained by microbial electrosynthesis from carbon dioxide. Environ. Sci. Technol. 49, 13566-13574. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.5b03821
30. Kantzow, C., Mayer, A., and Weuster-Botz, D. (2015). Continuous gas fermentation by Acetobacterium woodii in a submerged membrane reactor with full cell retention. J. Biotechnol. 212, 11-15. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2015.07.020
31. Körner, A., Tam, C., Bennett, S., and Gagné, J. F. (2015). Technology Roadmap-Hydrogen and Fuel Cells. Paris: International Energy Agency (IEA).
32. Krieg, T., Sydow, A., Schröder, U., Schrader, J., and Holtmann, D. (2014). Reactor concepts for bioelectrochemical syntheses and energy conversion. Trends Biotechnol. 32, 1-11. doi: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2014.10.004
33. LaBelle, E. V., Marshall, C. W., Gilbert, J. A., and May, H. D. (2014). Influence of acidic pH on hydrogen and acetate production by an electrosynthetic microbiome. PLoS ONE 9:e109935. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0109935
34. Lau, M. W., Bals, B. D., Chundawat, S. P. S., Jin, M., Gunawan, C., Balan, V., et al. (2012). An integrated paradigm for cellulosic biorefineries: utilization of lignocellulosic biomass as self-sufficient feedstocks for fuel, food precursors and saccharolytic enzyme production. Energy Environ. Sci. 5, 7100-7110. doi: 10.1039/c2ee03596k
35. Lawford, H. G., and Rousseau, J. D. (1997). Corn steep liquor as a cost-effective nutrition adjunct in high-performance Zymomonas ethanol fermentations. Appl. Biochem. Biotechnol. 6, 287-304. doi: 10.1007/BF02920431
36. Logan, B. E., and Rabaey, K. (2012). Conversion of wastes into bioelectricity and chemicals by using microbial electrochemical technologies. Science 337, 686-690. doi: 10.1126/science.1217412
37. Lovley, D. R., and Nevin, K. P. (2013). Electrobiocommodities: powering microbial production of fuels and commodity chemicals from carbon dioxide with electricity. Curr. Opin. Biotechnol. 24, 1-6. doi: 10.1016/j.copbio.2013.02.012
38. Marshall, C., Ross, D., Handley, K., Weisenhorn, P., Edirisinghe, J. N., Henry, C. S., et al. (2016). Metabolic reconstruction and modeling microbial electrosynthesis. bioRxiv 059410. doi: 10.1101/059410
39. Marshall, C. W., Ross, D. E., Fichot, E. B., Norman, R. S., and May, H. D. (2012). Electrosynthesis of commodity chemicals by an autotrophic microbial community. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 78, 8412-8420. doi: 10.1128/AEM.02401-12
40. Marshall, C. W., Ross, D. E., Fichot, E. B., Norman, R. S., and May, H. D. (2013). Long-term operation of microbial electrosynthesis systems improves acetate production by autotrophic microbiomes. Environ. Sci. Technol. 47, 6023-6029. doi: 10.1021/es400341b
41. May, H. D., Evans, P. J., and LaBelle, E. V. (2016). The bioelectrosynthesis of acetate. Curr. Opin. Biotechnol. 42, 225-233. doi: 10.1016/j.copbio.2016.09.004
42. Nayak, J., Pal, M., and Pal, P. (2015). Modeling and simulation of direct production of acetic acid from cheese whey in a multi-stage membrane-integrated bioreactor. Biochem. Eng. J. 93, 179-195. doi: 10.1016/j.bej.2014.10.002
43. Nayak, J., and Pal, P. (2015). "A green process for acetic acid production, " in Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Chemical, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Pattaya.
44. Nevin, K. P., Woodard, T. L., Franks, A. E., Summers, Z. M., and Lovley, D. R. (2010). Microbial electrosynthesis: feeding microbes electricity to convert carbon dioxide and water to multicarbon extracellular organic compounds. mBio 1:e00103-10. doi: 10.1128/mBio.00103-10
45. Ni, B.-J., Liu, H., Nie, Y.-Q., Zeng, R. J., Du, G.-C., Chen, J., et al. (2010). Coupling glucose fermentation and homoacetogenesis for elevated acetate production: experimental and mathematical approaches. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 108, 345-353. doi: 10.1002/bit.22908
46. Pal, P., and Nayak, J. (2016). Acetic acid production and purification: critical review towards process intensification. Sep. Purif. Rev. 46, 44-61. doi: 10.1080/15422119.2016.1185017
47. Papoutsakis, E. T. (2015). Reassessing the progress in the production of advanced biofuels in the current competitive environment and beyond: what are the successes and where progress eludes us and why. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 54, 10170-10182. doi: 10.1021/acs.iecr.5b01695
48. 2. Environ. Sci. Technol. 49, 8833-8843. doi: 10.1021/es506149d
49. Raizada, T. (2016). US Acetic Acid Demand Soft in Americas. Available at: http://www.icis.com/resources/news/2016/09/02/10031371/us-acetic-acid-demand-soft-in-the-americas/[accessed November 10, 2016].
50. Richter, H., Martin, M., and Angenent, L. T. (2013). A two-stage continuous fermentation system for conversion of syngas into ethanol. Energies 6, 3987-4000. doi: 10.3390/en6083987
51. Schröder, U., Harnisch, F., and Angenent, L. T. (2015). Microbial electrochemistry and technology: terminology and classification. Energy Environ. Sci. 8, 513-519. doi: 10.1039/C4EE03359K
52. Spirito, C. M., Richter, H., Rabaey, K., Stams, A. J., and Angenent, L. T. (2014). Chain elongation in anaerobic reactor microbiomes to recover resources from waste. Curr. Opin. Biotechnol. 27, 115-122. doi: 10.1016/j.copbio.2014.01.003
53. Tremblay, P. L., Angenent, L. T., and Zhang, T. (2016). Extracellular electron uptake: among autotrophs and mediated by surfaces. Trends Biotechnol. 35, 360-371. doi: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2016.10.004
54. Wakatsuki, K. (2015). Acetyls Chain-World Market Overview. Chemicals Committee Meeting at APIC 2015. Available at: http://www.orbichem.com/userfiles/APIC%202015/APIC2015_Keiji_Wakatsuki.pdf [accessed November 10, 2016].
55. Wiser, R., and Bolinger, M. (2016). 2015 Wind Technologies Market Report. Report No: LBNL-1005951. Germantown, MD: United States Department of Energy.
56. Xu, J., Guzman, J. J. L., Andersen, S. J., Rabaey, K., and Angenent, L. T. (2015). In-line and selective phase separation of medium-chain carboxylic acids using membrane electrolysis. Chem. Commun. 51, 6847-6850. doi: 10.1039/C5CC01897H
57. Yates, M. D., Siegert, M., and Logan, B. E. (2014). Hydrogen evolution catalyzed by viable and non-viable cells on biocathodes. Int. J. Hydrogen Energy 39, 16841-16851. doi: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2014.08.015
58. Zhang, F., Ding, J., Zhang, Y., Chen, M., Ding, Z. W., van Loosdrecht, M. C. M., et al. (2013). Fatty acids production from hydrogen and carbon dioxide by mixed culture in the membrane biofilm reactor. Water Res. 47, 6122-6129. doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2013.07.033
59. Zhang, Y., and Angelidaki, I. (2016). Microbial electrochemical systems and technologies: it is time to report the capital costs. Environ. Sci. Technol. 50, 5432-5433. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.6b01601