Butanol production from lignocellulosic biomass: revisiting fermentation performance indicators with exploratory data analysis.

ABSTRACT: After just more than 100 years of history of industrial acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation, patented by Weizmann in the UK in 1915, butanol is again today considered a promising biofuel alternative based on several advantages compared to the more established biofuels ethanol and methanol. Large-scale fermentative production of butanol, however, still suffers from high substrate cost and low product titers and selectivity. There have been great advances the last decades to tackle these problems. However, understanding the fermentation process variables and their interconnectedness with a holistic view of the current scientific state-of-the-art is lacking to a great extent. To illustrate the benefits of such a comprehensive approach, we have developed a dataset by collecting data fro

SUBMITTER: Birgen C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6598312 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature