Production of an acetone-butanol-ethanol mixture from Clostridium acetobutylicum and its conversion to high-value biofuels

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2015-03-01

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Sreekumar, Sanil
Baer, Zachary C.
Pazhamalai, Anbarasan
Günbaş, Emrullah Görkem
Grippo, Adam
Blanch, Harvey W.
Clark, Douglas S.
Toste, F. Dean

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Clostridium acetobutylicum is a bacterial species that ferments sugar to a mixture of organic solvents (acetone, butanol and ethanol). This protocol delineates a methodology to combine solventogenic clostridial fermentation and chemical catalysis via extractive fermentation for the production of biofuel blendstocks. Extractive fermentation of C. acetobutylicum is operated in fed-batch mode with a concentrated feed solution (500 grams per liter glucose and 50 grams per liter yeast extract) for 60 h, producing in excess of 40 g of solvents (acetone, butanol and ethanol) between the completely immiscible extractant and aqueous phases of the bioreactor. After distillation of the extractant phase, the acetone, butanol and ethanol mixture is upgraded to long-chain ketones over a palladium-hydrotalcite (Pd-HT) catalyst. This reaction is generally carried out in batch with a high-pressure Q-tube for 20 h at 250 degrees C. Following this protocol enables the production of similar to 0.5 g of high-value biofuel precursors from a 1.7-g portion of fermentation solvents.

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General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/44076

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NATURE PROTOCOLS

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https://doi.org/10.1038/nprot.2015.029

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Department of Chemistry, Article

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S. Sreekumar et al., “Production of an acetone-butanol-ethanol mixture from Clostridium acetobutylicum and its conversion to high-value biofuels,” NATURE PROTOCOLS, pp. 0–0, 2015, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/44076.