Renewable Butanol

Comprehensive resource addressing biobutanol production, recovery, applications, and commercialization through scientific, technological, and economic perspectives Integrating scientific, technological, and economic perspectives, Renewable Butanol delivers comprehensive coverage of the subject, with information on microbial genetics, various feedstocks, energy-efficient product recovery techniques, high-productivity fermentations, aviation biofuel, and process economics. The book focuses on production of butanol from agricultural residues, municipal organic waste, industrial organic waste, glycerol, whey permeate, CO2 & H2, and food waste. The textbook addresses genetics of butanol-producing microbial strains. Information on the production of butanol in high productivity reactors is presented along with various simultaneous product recovery techniques such as gas stripping, adsorption, and pervaporation. Process integration, process economics, and cost comparisons are also discussed, with case studies included throughout to elucidate key concepts. Written by a team of highly qualified authors, Renewable Butanol explores sample topics such as: Butanol production from cellulosic biomass and microalgae Butanol recovery by perstraction, supercritical CO2 extraction, and ionic liquid extraction Separation of butanol by reverse osmosis, vacuum-assisted recovery, and distillation as a commercial process Hydrogen production and byproducts separation, transforming corn stover to sustainable aviation fuels through a hybrid approach, and applications of butanol other than biofuel Technologies for enhanced photosynthetic butanol production and lifecycle assessment of biobutanol Renewable Butanol is an excellent up-to-date resource on the subject for academic and industrial researchers working on the production of fuels and chemicals from renewable feedstocks as well as those working in green and sustainable chemistry and chemical and process engineering.

List of Contributors xvii About the Editors xxi Foreword xxv Preface xxvii Part I History and Genetics of Butanol-producing Strains 1 1 A Historical Overview of Biobutanol Production by the Industrial Fermentation Route 3 David T. Jones 2 An Overview of Challenges of Butanol Fermentation 29 Nasib Qureshi 3 Genetics of Butanol-producing Strains 39 Christopher Chukwudi Okonkwo, Victor C. Ujor, and Thaddeus Chukwuemeka Ezeji 4 Characterization of Butanol-producing Strains: Physiology and Biochemical Functions of Solvent-producing Bacterial Strains 69 Okezie Emmanuel, Thaddeus Chukwuemeka Ezeji, Nasib Qureshi, Christopher Chukwudi Okonkwo, and Victor C. Ujor Part II Agricultural Biomass and Other Economic Feedstocks 91 5 Cellulosic Inhibitors and Elicitors 93 Thaddeus Chukwuemeka Ezeji, Nasib Qureshi, and Anton Friedl 6 Butanol Production from Cellulosic Biomass and Commercial Feedstocks 105 Nasib Qureshi and Anton Friedl 7 Food Waste as a Feedstock for Butanol Production 117 Hongchen Shen and Haibo Huang 8 Energy Crops for Butanol Fermentation Process 139 Shiva Om Makaju, Jazib Ali Irfan, and Ali M. Missaoui 9 Municipal and Domestic Waste as Fermentation Substrates to Produce Biofuels and Bioproducts 161 Stephen R. Hughes and Randall Deemie 10 Butanol Production from Yellow Top, Orchard Waste, Industrial Waste, and Algae 179 Barbora Branska, Maja Klimentiæ, Kamila Koppova, and Petra Patakova 11 Technologies for Enhanced Photosynthetic Butanol Production 207 Hao Xie, Samantha Fuller, Xufeng Liu, and Peter Lindblad 12 Life Cycle Assessment of Biobutanol 223 Mairi J. Black, Haodong Lin, and Aiduan Borrion Part III Butanol Production Process Technologies and Energy-efficient Recovery Processes 247 13 High Productivity Immobilized-cell and Cell-recycle Fermentation 249 Qing Jin, Hongchen Shen, and Haibo Huang 14 Adsorption as a Technique to Recover Butanol 275 Francesca Raganati, Piero Salatino, and Antonio Marzocchella 15 Application of Gas Stripping to Butanol Recovery 297 Okezie Emmanuel and Thaddeus Chukwuemeka Ezeji 16 Challenging Butanol Recoveries: Pervaporation and Pervaporation Membranes 313 Anton Friedl and Nasib Qureshi 17 Butanol Recovery by Extraction, Perstraction, Supercritical CO2 Extraction, and Ionic Liquid Extraction 335 Nasib Qureshi and Anton Friedl 18 Butanol Recovery from Fermentation Broth Using Reverse Osmosis 353 Veera Boddu and Nasib Qureshi 19 Vacuum-assisted Recovery in Fermentation Systems 367 Thaddeus Chukwuemeka Ezeji, Okezie Emmanuel, Ademola Duduyemi, and Nasib Qureshi 20 Distillation: Is It Still the Commercial Process? 383 Eduardo Sánchez-Ramírez, Juan José Quiroz-Ramírez, Brenda Huerta-Rosas, and Juan Gabriel Segovia-Hernández Part IV Process Integration and Insights on Butanol Production 405 21 Process Integration on Bioconversion to Butanol 407 Thaddeous Chukwuemeka Ezeji and Nasib Qureshi 22 Perspective on Industrial Biofuel Manufacturing: A Continuous Industrial Platform for Co-production of Biofuels and Valuable Bioproducts Using Clostridia 427 Stephen R. Hughes and Randall Deemie 23 Economic Evaluation of Butanol Production and Cost Comparisons 447 Somesh Mishra, Nasib Qureshi, and Vijay Singh Part V By-products Separation, Aviation Biofuel, and Other Applications of Butanol 461 24 Hydrogen Production and Byproducts Separation 463 Anton Friedl and Michael Harasek 25 Corn Stover-to-sustainable Aviation Fuels: A Hybrid Approach 481 Daniel M. Santosa and Bin Yang 26 Applications of Butanol Other than Biofuel 497 Ting Luo, Qiaoguang Li, Yun Hu, and Puyou Jia 27 Acetone (By-product), Market, and Applications 515 Qiaoguang Li, Wei Wei, Zhihong Wang, and Puyou Jia 28 Perspectives on Sustainable Acetone–Butanol–Ethanol: Toward a Phoenix-like Industrial Resurgence of the ABE 531 Alain A. Vertès References 545 Index 551