Higher Alcohols Production Platforms
From Strain Development to Process Design
- 1st Edition - September 26, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Hamid Amiri, Meisam Tabatabaei, Abdul-Sattar Nizami
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 1 7 5 6 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 8 6 3 1 - 1
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Request a sales quoteHigher Alcohols Production Platforms: From Strain Development to Process Design comprehensively covers the production of higher alcohols, from the fundamentals to the latest research. Bringing together experts from industry and academia, the book sheds light on the practical aspects of higher alcohol production and offers a roadmap for researchers to follow. In addition to the fundamentals of higher alcohol production, readers are presented with detailed information on up and downstream processes, including microbial processes and the various production pathways available. A discussion of metabolic pathways has a dedicated chapter, as do C2, C3-C8, and C4 sugar fermentation platforms.
A lifecycle assessment is also presented, addressing the energy, environmental, social and economic factors in the sustainability of higher alcohol production. Readers will find this to be a unique and comprehensive reference on the production of higher alcohols that will be of interest to students, researchers and industry professionals involved in bioenergy and renewable energy, and more.
- Provides comprehensive coverage of the energy, environmental and economic aspects of higher alcohols biofuels
- Presents a rational basis for assessing alcoholic products that can be used as a roadmap for their further developments
- Analyzes and synthesizes the latest research and developments on the production of higher alcohols as biofuels for audiences in academia and industry
PhD students, researchers, and industry practitioners involved in the production of biofuels; biotechnologists, chemical engineers
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1. Higher alcohols: applications as fuels and chemicals
- Abstract
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Higher alcohols as biofuels
- 1.3 Potentials of higher alcohols in synthetic chemistry
- 1.4 Potentials of higher alcohols as solvents
- 1.5 Conclusions
- References
- 2. Higher alcohols: metabolic pathways and engineering strategies for enhanced production
- Abstract
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Butanol production in Clostridium species
- 2.3 Microbial production of 2-butanol
- 2.4 Microbial production of branched-chain higher alcohols
- 2.5 Conclusions
- References
- 3. Feedstocks for higher alcohol production
- Abstract
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Higher alcohol synthesis: general aspects
- 3.3 Glycerol as feedstock
- 3.4 Pretreatments
- 3.5 Agroindustrial wastes as raw materials for the production of higher alcohols
- 3.6 Algae as photosynthetic feedstocks
- 3.7 Carbon dioxide as feedstock
- 3.8 Syngas for the production of higher alcohols
- 3.9 Conclusions
- References
- 4. Sugar fermentation: C2 (ethanolic) platform
- Abstract
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Technologies for the biological production of ethanol
- 4.3 The substrate issues
- 4.4 Biological pathways for ethanol production
- 4.5 Synthetic biology and metabolic engineering for enhanced ethanol production
- 4.6 Application of coculture for ethanol production
- 4.7 Conclusions
- References
- 5. Sugar fermentation: C4 platforms
- Abstract
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Biochemistry of n-butanol production
- 5.3 Biochemistry of isobutanol production
- 5.4 Challenges in microbial production of n-butanol
- 5.5 Microorganisms involved in n-butanol and isobutanol production
- 5.6 Substrates
- 5.7 Process integration for n-butanol production
- 5.8 Conclusions
- References
- 6. Syngas fermentation platforms: alcohols from syngas and CO2
- Abstract
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Alternative routes to syngas fermentation for the production of alcohols
- 6.3 Syngas and carbon dioxide (CO2) bioconversion to alcohols
- 6.4 Downstream processing
- 6.5 Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- References
- 7. Alcohol production: downstream processes
- Abstract
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Distillation for bioalcohol separation
- 7.3 Nondistillation separation techniques
- 7.4 Process integration for alcohols separation
- 7.5 Conclusions
- References
- 8. Alcohol production process design and scale-up
- Abstract
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Alcohols
- 8.3 Ethanol
- 8.4 n-Propanol and isopropanol
- 8.5 Butanol
- 8.6 Scaling-up of alcohol production processes and biorefineries
- 8.7 Conclusions
- References
- 9. Life cycle sustainability assessment of higher alcohol: energy, environmental, and social indicators
- Abstract
- 9.1 Higher alcohol as an oxygenated additive
- 9.2 Higher alcohols and their role in exhaust emission of diesel engine
- 9.3 Sustainability in higher alcohol production
- 9.4 Conclusions
- References
- 10. Scope for commercialization and market analysis of bio-based alcohols, fuels, and chemicals
- Abstract
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Products of bio-based alcohols and chemicals
- 10.3 The market of bio-based fuels and chemicals
- 10.4 Factors affecting market
- 10.5 Challenges and perspectives
- 10.6 Conclusions
- References
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: September 26, 2023
- No. of pages (Paperback): 348
- No. of pages (eBook): 370
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323917568
- eBook ISBN: 9780323986311
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Hamid Amiri
Hamid Amiri has a master’s in chemical engineering from the Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran. He has a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering-Biotechnology from Isfahan University of Technology. Since 2014, he has worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of Isfahan in breaking the chemical and engineering barriers to the production of waste-based biofuels and value-added biochemicals by process design, integration, optimization, and analysis in the way of developing future biorefineries. He has published more than 30 papers on the topics of renewable energy, alternative fuels, waste-to-energy, ABE fermentation, pretreatment of lignocellulose, and resource recovery. He has completed a number of funded research projects and played the leading role in the development of the Environmental Research Institute and Biotechnology Lab Complex in University of Isfahan.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, University of Isfahan, IranMT
Meisam Tabatabaei
Meisam Tabatabaei is a Professor of Environmental Biotechnology at the Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia. Over the last decade, Meisam has worked closely with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to promote waste-oriented biofuels in the developing world. Since 2016, he has been the lead collaborator of the Lancet Commission on Public Health and Climate Change (UCL, UK). He has published over 400 publications, including original research papers and reviews in journals such as The LANCET, Progress in Energy and Combustion Sciences, Nature Food, Trends in Biotechnology, and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. He is currently also a Visiting Professor at the Henan Agricultural University, China, and University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He is a member of the editorial board for the journals Progress in Energy and Combustion Sciences, Biofuel Research Journal, Scientific Reports, International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, Data in Brief, and Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization and Environmental Effects. Prof. Tabatabaei is the Associate Editor of Critical Reviews in Biotechnology and Resources, Environment, and Sustainability and Senior Editor of e-Prime.
Affiliations and expertise
Higher Institution Centre of Excellence (HICoE), Institute of Tropical Aquaculture and Fisheries (AKUATROP), Professor of Environmental Biotechnology, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, 21030 Kuala Nerus, Terengganu, MalaysiaAN
Abdul-Sattar Nizami
Abdul-Sattar Nizami has a master’s in engineering from the Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden. He has a Ph.D. in Sustainable Gaseous Biofuel from the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University College Cork, Ireland. Later, he worked at the University of Toronto, Canada as a Postdoctoral Fellow on alternative fuels, life cycle studies under the Institute for Sustainable Energy. He served the Center of Excellence in Environmental Studies (CEES) of King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia, as an Assistant Professor and Head of Solid Waste Management Unit, and is currently an Associate Professor at the Sustainable Development Study Centre (SDSC), Government College University, Pakistan. He has published more than 100 papers on the topics of renewable energy, alternative fuels, waste-to-energy, catalytic pyrolysis, anaerobic digestion, and resource recovery. Dr. Nizami is an Associate Editor in Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, Energy & Environment, and Frontiers in Energy Research. He is serving as an Editorial Board Member in Bioresource Technology Reports, and Energy Sources Part B.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Sustainable Development Study Centre (SDSC), Government College University, PakistanRead Higher Alcohols Production Platforms on ScienceDirect