有机溶剂对污泥厌氧发酵产酸的影响

有机酸是重要的化工原料,从市政污泥厌氧发酵过程提取有机酸、用于生产高附加值的产品可以实现废物资源化,本研究在确定最佳有机溶剂和萃取剂的基础上,考察了有机溶剂对城市污泥厌氧发酵生产有机酸的影响.结果表明,较合适的溶剂和萃取剂分别为磺化煤油和三烷基氧膦.少量磺化煤油对城市污泥发酵产生产有机酸有一定促进作用.     

高效液相色谱法在测定丁二酸厌氧发酵体系中有机酸的应用

建立了一种利用高效液相色谱法定量分析丁二酸厌氧发酵体系中多种有机酸的方法。利用Alltech反相Prevail有机酸色谱柱,以25 mmol.L-1KH2PO4(pH2.5)作为流动相,流速1 mL.min-1,采用紫外检测器,于215 nm处检测,能将丁二酸厌氧发酵体系中多种有机酸完全分离并准确定量。有机酸的回收率均在99%~103%之间。本方法能够快速、精确测定丁二酸厌氧发酵体系中多种有机酸含量,并初步应用于该发酵体系培养基成分优化方面,对于指导厌氧代谢调控生产丁二酸具有重要意义。     

不同生境微生物转化H2/CO2产乙酸及其在合成气发酵中应用

【目的】合成气发酵对大力开发可再生资源和促进国家可持续发展具有重要意义,研究旨在探究不同生境微生物转化H2/CO2产乙酸及其合成气发酵的潜力。【方法】采集剩余污泥、牛粪、产甲烷污泥和河道底物样品在中温(37 °C)条件下生物转化H2/CO2气体,将来源于牛粪样品的H2/CO2转化富集物用于合成气发酵,通过454高通量技术和定量PCR技术分析复杂微生物群落的组成,GC气相色谱法检测气体转化产生的挥发性脂肪酸(VFAs)浓度。【结果】牛粪和剩余污泥微生物利用H2/CO2气体生成乙酸、乙醇和丁酸等,最高乙酸浓度分别为63 mmol/L和40 mmol/L,明显高于河道底物和产甲烷污泥样品的最高乙酸浓度3 mmol/L和16 mmol/L。牛粪和剩余污泥微生物中含有种类多样化的同型产乙酸菌,剩余污泥中同型产乙酸菌主要为Clostridium spp.、Sporomusa malonica和Acetoanaerobium noterae,牛粪中则为Clostridium spp.、Treponema azotonutricium和Oxobacter pfennigii。【结论】同型产乙酸菌的丰富度和数量两个因素都对复杂微生物群落转化H2/CO2产乙酸效率至关重要;转化H2/CO2得到的富集物可用于合成气发酵产乙酸和乙醇,这为基于混合培养技术的合成气发酵提供了依据。     

合成气制取乙醇2种技术比较分析

论述了合成气制取乙醇的必要性,重点对以合成气为原料制取燃料乙醇的化学催化法(费托合成法)和厌氧发酵法两种技术的优缺点进行对比分析,指出了利用合成气通过厌氧发酵技术来生产乙醇具有显著的优势,同时也提出了合成气厌氧发酵制取乙醇技术中存在的问题和建议.     

暗发酵-光发酵两阶段联合生物制氢技术研究进展

随着能源紧缺的日益加剧,以及化石燃料燃烧引起的环境问题逐渐突显,氢能作为一种清洁可再生能源越来越受到青睐。生物制氢与热化学及电化学制氢相比其反应条件温和、低耗、绿色,是一项非常有应用前景的技术。生物制氢从广义上可以分为暗发酵和光发酵产氢两种,其中暗发酵微生物可以利用有机废弃物产生氢气以及有机酸等副产物,光合细菌在光照和固氮酶的作用下可以将暗发酵产生的有机酸继续用于产氢,因此两种发酵产氢方式相结合可以提高有机废物的资源化效率。将近年来暗发酵-光发酵两阶段生物制氢技术进行整理分析,从其产氢机理、主要影响因素、暗发酵-光发酵产氢结合方式(两步法、混合培养产氢)几个方面进行阐述,最后指出该技术面临的挑战。     

根霉菌利用木质纤维素发酵生产有机酸的研究进展*

木质纤维素是世界上储量最丰富、最廉价的可再生生物质资源,利用木质纤维素发酵生产有机酸具有重大的经济效益及社会效益。为发掘影响木质纤维素利用的关键因素,对根霉菌的木糖代谢途径以及利用木质纤维素发酵生产乳酸、富马酸等重要有机酸的生产方式、发酵策略等进行了阐述,指出针对木糖的转化率是制约木质纤维素高效利用的瓶颈。     

有机废弃物厌氧发酵技术展望

为了实现能源的低碳化,世界各国对可再生能源的开发和利用越来越积极。厌氧甲烷发酵因其技术成熟、实用化强及可持续的回收能源成为各国关注的热点之一。文章对全球有机废弃物的厌氧发酵技术及发展状况进行了归纳分析。通过对厌氧技术及甲烷发酵相关文献进行分析,结合中国厌氧甲烷发酵技术的发展现状及趋势,对中国甲烷发酵产业的发展提出了若干对策建议。     

合成气厌氧发酵生物反应器的研究进展

对合成气厌氧发酵生物反应器的研究进展进行综述,包括生物反应器操作原理、类型、构造、应用和对发酵过程的影响等,并对其未来的发展作出展望。     

利用合成气生产生物基醇类化学品的研究进展

以合成气为底物生产乙醇、丁醇、己醇等生物基醇类化学品可以降低原料成本,减轻对化石燃料的依赖,推动碳中和目标的实现。概述了产乙酸菌中能够利用合成气的Wood-Ljungdahl途径及该过程中产乙酸菌的能量节约机制,综述了产乙酸菌遗传操作工具的发展及代谢工程改造进展。大量研究揭示了发酵条件（如温度、pH、金属离子、有机氮源、硝酸盐等）对产乙酸菌生长及醇类产物合成具有复杂的影响。气体成分及气液传质效率也是影响合成气利用的重要因素。另外,指出了利用合成气生产生物基醇类化学品现存的瓶颈问题,并展望了未来的研究方向,包括开发产乙酸中的高效基因编辑方法,在模式菌株中构建合成气利用途径、优化温度、pH、反应器设计及利用廉价培养基进行发酵。     

生物质废物资源综合利用技术

正化学工业出版社出版主要内容包括生物质废物资源的现状及特点、生物质废物资源的利用技术(烯气化利用技术、燃油化利用技术、发电供热利用技术、燃料化利用技术、肥料化利用技术、建材化利用技术、高值化利用技术)、综合利用中主要的二次污染物控制、技术的发展趋势与应用挑战,旨在为广大读者系统介绍生物质废物资源化综合利用技术的发展现状、技术进展和推广应用等。     

Tracing carbon monoxide uptake by Clostridium ljungdahlii during ethanol fermentation using 13C-enrichment technique

Conversion of synthesis gas (CO and H₂) to ethanol can be an alternative, promising technology to produce biofuels from renewable biomass. To distinguish microbial utilization of carbon source between fructose and synthesis gas CO and to evaluate biological production of ethanol from CO, we adopted the ¹³C-enrichment of the CO substrate and hypothesized that the residual increase in δ¹³C of the cell biomass would reflect the increased contribution of ¹³C-enriched CO. Addition of synthesis gas to live culture medium for ethanol fermentation by Clostridum ljungdahlii increased the microbial growth and ethanol production. Despite the high ¹³C-enrichment in CO (99 atom % ¹³C), however, microbial δ¹³C increased relatively small compared to the microbial growth. The uptake efficiency of CO estimated using the isotope mass balance equation was also very low: 0.0014 % for the low CO and 0.0016 % for the high CO treatment. Furthermore, the fast production of ethanol in the early stage indicated that the presence of sugar in fermentation medium would limit the utilization of CO as a carbon source by C. ljungdahlii.     

Fermentation of biomass-generated producer gas to ethanol

The development of low-cost, sustainable, and renewable energy sources has been a major focus since the 1970s. Fuel-grade ethanol is one energy source that has great potential for being generated from biomass. The demonstration of the fermentation of biomass-generated producer gas to ethanol is the major focus of this article in addition to assessing the effects of producer gas on the fermentation process. In this work, producer gas (primarily CO, CO(2), CH(4), H(2), and N(2)) was generated from switchgrass via gasification. The fluidized-bed gasifier generated gas with a composition of 56.8% N(2), 14.7% CO, 16.5% CO(2), 4.4% H(2), and 4.2% CH(4). The producer gas was utilized in a 4-L bioreactor to generate ethanol and other products via fermentation using a novel clostridial bacterium. The effects of biomass-generated producer gas on cell concentration, hydrogen uptake, and acid/alcohol production are shown in comparison with "clean" bottled gases of similar compositions for CO, CO(2), and H(2). The successful implementation of generating producer gas from biomass and then fermenting the producer gas to ethanol was demonstrated. Several key findings following the introduction of producer gas included: (1) the cells stopped growing but were still viable, (2) ethanol was primarily produced once the cells stopped growing (ethanol is nongrowth associated), (3) H(2) utilization stopped, and (4) cells began growing again if "clean" bottled gases were introduced following exposure to the producer gas.     

琥珀酸发酵研究进展*

琥珀酸在化工和食品行业应用广泛。与传统化学方法相比,微生物发酵法生产琥珀酸具有诸多优点：生产成本具有竞争力;利用可再生的农业资源包括二氧化碳作为原料,避免了对石化原料的依赖;减少了化学合成工艺对环境的污染。主要介绍产琥珀酸微生物的来源和育种,代谢途径和发酵调控机制以及产品回收工艺的进展。     

Growth of Rhodospirillum rubrum on synthesis gas: conversion of CO to H2 and poly-beta-hydroxyalkanoate

To examine the potential use of synthesis gas as a carbon and energy source in fermentation processes, Rhodospirillum rubrum was cultured on synthesis gas generated from discarded seed corn. The growth rates, growth and poly-beta-hydroxyalkanoates (PHA) yields, and CO oxidation/H(2) evolution rates were evaluated in comparison to the rates observed with an artificial synthesis gas mixture. Depending on the gas conditioning system used, synthesis gas either stimulated or inhibited CO-oxidation rates compared to the observations with the artificial synthesis gas mixture. Inhibitory and stimulatory compounds in synthesis gas could be removed by the addition of activated charcoal, char-tar, or char-ash filters (char, tar, and ash are gasification residues). In batch fermentations, approximately 1.4 mol CO was oxidized per day per g cell protein with the production of 0.75 mol H(2) and 340 mg PHA per day per g cell protein. The PHA produced from R. rubrum grown on synthesis gas was composed of 86% beta-hydroxybutyrate and 14% beta-hydroxyvalerate. Mass transfer of CO into the liquid phase was determined as the rate-limiting step in the fermentation.     

Ethanol and acetate production by <Emphasis Type="Italic">Clostridium ljungdahlii</Emphasis> and <Emphasis Type="Italic">Clostridium autoethanogenum</Emphasis> using resting cells

Combined gasification and fermentation technologies can potentially produce biofuels from renewable biomass. Gasification generates synthesis gas consisting primarily of CO, CO₂, H₂, N₂, with smaller amounts of CH₄, NO_x, O₂, C₂ compounds, ash and tars. Several anaerobic bacteria species can ferment bottled mixtures of pure synthesis gas constituents. However, there are challenges to maintaining culture viability of synthesis gas exposed cells. This study was designed to enhance culture stability and improve ethanol-to-acetate ratios using resting (non-growing) cells in synthesis gas fermentation. Resting cell states were induced in autotrophic Clostridium ljungdahlii cultures with minimal ethanol and acetate production due to low metabolic activity compared to growing cell production levels of 5.2 and 40.1 mM of ethanol and acetate. Clostridium autoethanogenum cultures were not induced into true resting states but did show improvement in total ethanol production (from 5.1 mM in growing cultures to 9.4 in one nitrogen-limited medium) as well as increased shifts in ethanol-to-acetate production ratios.     

Inhibitory effect of carbon dioxide on the fed-batch culture of Ralstonia eutropha: evaluation by CO2 pulse injection and autogenous CO2 methods

In order to see the effect of CO(2) inhibition resulting from the use of pure oxygen, we carried out a comparative fed-batch culture study of polyhydroxybutyric acid (PHB) production by Ralstonia eutropha using air and pure oxygen in 5-L, 30-L, and 300-L fermentors. The final PHB concentrations obtained with pure O(2) were 138.7 g/L in the 5-L fermentor and 131.3 g/L in the 30-L fermentor, which increased 2.9 and 6.2 times, respectively, as compared to those obtained with air. In the 300-L fermentor, the fed-batch culture with air yielded only 8.4 g/L PHB. However, the maximal CO(2) concentrations in the 5-L fermentor increased significantly from 4.1% (air) to 15.0% (pure O(2)), while it was only 1.6% in the 30-L fermentor with air, but reached 14.2% in the case of pure O(2). We used two different experimental methods for evaluating CO(2) inhibition: CO(2) pulse injection and autogenous CO(2) methods. A 10 or 22% (v/v) CO(2) pulse with a duration of 3 or 6 h was introduced in a pure-oxygen culture of R. eutropha to investigate how CO(2) affects the synthesis of biomass and PHB. CO(2) inhibited the cell growth and PHB synthesis significantly. The inhibitory effect became stronger with the increase of the CO(2) concentration and pulse duration. The new proposed autogenous CO(2) method makes it possible to place microbial cells under different CO(2) level environments by varying the gas flow rate. Introduction of O(2) gas at a low flow rate of 0.42 vvm resulted in an increase of CO(2) concentration to 30.2% in the exit gas. The final PHB of 97.2 g/L was obtained, which corresponded to 70% of the PHB production at 1.0 vvm O(2) flow rate. This new method measures the inhibitory effect of CO(2) produced autogenously by cells through the entire fermentation process and can avoid the overestimation of CO(2) inhibition without introducing artificial CO(2) into the fermentor.     

Intracellular metabolite profiling and the evaluation of metabolite extraction solvents for Clostridium carboxidivorans fermenting carbon monoxide

Clostridium carboxidivorans ferments CO, CO₂, and H₂ via the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway. CO, CO_2, and H₂ are unique substrates, unlike other carbon sources like glucose, so it is necessary to analyze intracellular metabolite profiles for gas fermentation by C. carboxidivorans for metabolic engineering. Moreover, it is necessary to optimize the metabolite extraction solvent specifically for C. carboxidivorans fermenting syngas. In comparison with glucose media, the gas media allowed significant abundance changes of 38 and 34 metabolites in the exponential and stationary phases, respectively. Especially, C. carboxidivorans cultivated in the gas media showed changes of fatty acid metabolism and higher levels of intracellular fatty acid synthesis possibly due to cofactor imbalance and slow metabolism. Meanwhile, the evaluation of extraction solvents revealed the mixture of water-isopropanol-methanol (2:2:5, v/v/v) to be the best extraction solvent, which showed a higher extraction capability and reproducibility than pure methanol, the conventional extraction solvent. This is the first metabolomic study to demonstrate the unique intracellular metabolite profiles of the gas fermentation compared to glucose fermentation, and to evaluate water-isopropanol-methanol as the optimal metabolite extraction solvent for C. carboxidivorans on gas fermentation.     

CO₂ from alcoholic fermentation for continuous cultivation of Arthrospira (Spirulina) platensis in tubular photobioreactor using urea as nitrogen source

Carbon dioxide released from alcoholic fermentation accounts for 33% of the whole CO(2) involved in the use of ethanol as fuel derived from glucose. As Arthrospira platensis can uptake this greenhouse gas, this study evaluates the use of the CO(2) released from alcoholic fermentation for the production of Arthrospira platensis. For this purpose, this cyanobacterium was cultivated in continuous process using urea as nitrogen source, either using CO(2) from alcoholic fermentation, without any treatment, or using pure CO(2) from cylinder. The experiments were carried out at 120 μmol photons m(-2) s(-1) in tubular photobioreactor at different dilution rates (0.2 ≤ D ≤ 0.8 d(-1) ). Using CO(2) from alcoholic fermentation, maximum steady-state cell concentration (2661 ± 71 mg L(-1) ) was achieved at D = 0.2 d(-1) , whereas higher dilution rate (0.6 d(-1) ) was needed to maximize cell productivity (839 mg L(-1) d(-1) ). This value was 10% lower than the one obtained with pure CO(2) , and there was no significant difference in the biomass protein content. With D = 0.8 d(-1) , it was possible to obtain 56% ± 1.5% and 50% ± 1.2% of protein in the dry biomass, using pure CO(2) and CO(2) from alcoholic fermentation, respectively. These results demonstrate that the use of such cost free CO(2) from alcoholic fermentation as carbon source, associated with low cost nitrogen source, may be a promising way to reduce costs of continuous cultivation of photosynthetic microorganisms, contributing at the same time to mitigate the greenhouse effect.     

Dynamic modeling of syngas fermentation in a continuous stirred-tank reactor: Multi-response parameter estimation and process optimization

Syngas fermentation is one of the bets for the future sustainable biobased economies due to its potential as an intermediate step in the conversion of waste carbon to ethanol fuel and other chemicals. Integrated with gasification and suitable downstream processing, it may constitute an efficient and competitive route for the valorization of various waste materials, especially if systems engineering principles are employed targeting process optimization. In this study, a dynamic multi-response model is presented for syngas fermentation with acetogenic bacteria in a continuous stirred-tank reactor, accounting for gas–liquid mass transfer, substrate (CO, H₂) uptake, biomass growth and death, acetic acid reassimilation, and product selectivity. The unknown parameters were estimated from literature data using the maximum likelihood principle with a multi-response nonlinear modeling framework and metaheuristic optimization, and model adequacy was verified with statistical analysis via generation of confidence intervals as well as parameter significance tests. The model was then used to study the effects of process conditions (gas composition, dilution rate, gas flow rates, and cell recycle) as well as the sensitivity of kinetic parameters, and multiobjective genetic algorithm was used to maximize ethanol productivity and CO conversion. It was observed that these two objectives were clearly conflicting when CO-rich gas was used, but increasing the content of H₂ favored higher productivities while maintaining 100% CO conversion. The maximum productivity predicted with full conversion was 2 g·L⁻¹·hr⁻¹ with a feed gas composition of 54% CO and 46% H₂ and a dilution rate of 0.06 hr⁻¹ with roughly 90% of cell recycle.     

环境因素对琥珀酸放线杆菌Actinobacillus succinogenes CGMCC 1593发酵生产丁二酸的影响

琥珀酸放线杆菌是发酵生产有应用前景的生物基原料-丁二酸的微生物。本研究室从牛瘤胃中筛选获得一株琥珀酸放线杆菌Actinobacillus succinogenes CGMCC 1593, 分析了环境气体、pH、氧化还原电位(ORP)环境因素对琥珀酸放线杆菌A. succinogenes CGMCC 1593发酵生产丁二酸的影响。结果表明: CO2不仅提供了A. succinogenes CGMCC 1593发酵生产丁二酸的最佳气体环境, 也是发酵生产丁二酸的底物之一; MgCO3是A. succinogenes CGMCC 1593发酵过程较好的pH调节剂, 发酵过程维持pH7.1~6.2, 可满足菌体生长与产酸的要求; 发酵液初始ORP过低, 不利于菌体生长, ORP在-270 mV时对丁二酸产生有利。在菌体对数生长期结束时, 通过Na2S·9H2O降低发酵液ORP到-270 mV, 发酵48 h时可产丁二酸37 g/L, 摩尔产率达到129%。这对深入研究A. succinogenes CGMCC 1593发酵生产丁二酸具有参考价值。