1. Carbon capture and utilization of fermentation CO2: Integrated ethanol fermentation and succinic acid production as an efficient platform.
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Zhang, Quanguo, Nurhayati, Null, Cheng, Chieh-Lun, Nagarajan, Dillirani, Chang, Jo-Shu, Hu, Jianjun, and Lee, Duu-Jong
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ETHANOL as fuel , *CARBON dioxide , *ORGANIC acids , *FERMENTATION , *PHOTOSYNTHETIC bacteria - Abstract
Dark fermentative bioethanol production process yields carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and organic acids as by-products. The so-yielded CO 2 is a nearly saturated gas of high CO 2 purity, which is commonly utilized in food industries as supplements. The potential utilization pathways for the CO 2 generated and released from the ethanol fermentation process (denoted as “fermentation CO 2 ”) include production of biofuels by CO 2 fixation of microalgae and succinic acid fermentation by non-photosynthetic microorganisms. This study compared the performances of these two CO 2 fixing pathways using Chlorella vulgaris or Actinobacillus succinogenes cultures. The highest carbon fixation rate achieved by Actinobacillus succinogenes was 388.8 g/L-d in 2-L reactor, which is about 188 times to that by Chlorella vulgaris (2.06 g/L-d) in the reactor at the same volume. This study ultimately demonstrated the advantages of adopting succinic acid production process compared to those frequently addressed in literature using microalgae-based biofuels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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