In-situ recovery of butanol during fermentation |
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Authors: | S R Roffler Prof H W Blanch C R Wilke |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, 94720 Berkeley, California, USA |
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Abstract: | End-product inhibition in the acetone-butanol fermentation was reduced by using extractive fermentation to continuously remove acetone and butanol from the fermentation broth. In situ removal of inhibitory products from Clostridium acetobutylicum resulted in increased reactor productivity; volumetric butanol productivity increased from 0.58 kg/(m3h) in batch fermentation to 1.5 kg/(m3h) in fed-batch extractive fermentation using oleyl alcohol as the extraction solvent. The use of fed-batch operation allowed glucose solutions of up to 500 kg/m3 to be fermented, resulting in a 3.5- to 5-fold decrease in waste water volume. Butanol reached a concentration of 30–35 kg/m3 in the oleyl alcohol extractant at the end of fermentation, a concentration that is 2–3 times higher than is possible in regular batch or fed-batch fermentation. Butanol productivities and glucose conversions in fed-batch extractive fermentation compare favorable with continuous fermentation and in situ product removal fermentations.List of Symbols
C
g kg/m3
concentration of glucose in the feed
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C
w dm3/m3
concentration of water in the feed
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F(t) cm3/h
flowrate of feed to the fermentor at time t
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V(t) dm3
broth volume at time t
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V
i dm3
initial broth volume
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V
si dm3
volume of the i-th aqueous phase sample
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effective fraction of water in the feed
Part 1. Bioprocess Engineering 2 (1987) 1–12 |
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