Biorefinery: The Production of Isobutanol from Biomass Feedstocks
Environmental issues have prompted the vigorous development of biorefineries that use agricultural waste and other biomass feedstock as raw materials. However, most current biorefinery products are cellulosic ethanol. There is an urgent need for biorefineries to expand into new bioproducts. Isobutan...
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| description | Environmental issues have prompted the vigorous development of biorefineries that use agricultural waste and other biomass feedstock as raw materials. However, most current biorefinery products are cellulosic ethanol. There is an urgent need for biorefineries to expand into new bioproducts. Isobutanol is an important bulk chemical with properties that are close to gasoline, making it a very promising biofuel. The use of microorganisms to produce isobutanol has been extensively studied, but there is still a considerable gap to achieving the industrial production of isobutanol from biomass. This review summarizes current metabolic engineering strategies that have been applied to biomass isobutanol production and recent advances in the production of isobutanol from different biomass feedstocks. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ec6eacd644034e429d2b31b2b6293c082023-11-20T21:40:06ZengMDPI AGApplied Sciences2076-34172020-11-011022822210.3390/app10228222Biorefinery: The Production of Isobutanol from Biomass FeedstocksYide Su0Weiwei Zhang1Aili Zhang2Wenju Shao3School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Hebei University of Technology, No. 8 Guangrong Road, Hongqiao District, Tianjin 300130, ChinaSchool of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Hebei University of Technology, No. 8 Guangrong Road, Hongqiao District, Tianjin 300130, ChinaSchool of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Hebei University of Technology, No. 8 Guangrong Road, Hongqiao District, Tianjin 300130, ChinaSchool of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Hebei University of Technology, No. 8 Guangrong Road, Hongqiao District, Tianjin 300130, ChinaEnvironmental issues have prompted the vigorous development of biorefineries that use agricultural waste and other biomass feedstock as raw materials. However, most current biorefinery products are cellulosic ethanol. There is an urgent need for biorefineries to expand into new bioproducts. Isobutanol is an important bulk chemical with properties that are close to gasoline, making it a very promising biofuel. The use of microorganisms to produce isobutanol has been extensively studied, but there is still a considerable gap to achieving the industrial production of isobutanol from biomass. This review summarizes current metabolic engineering strategies that have been applied to biomass isobutanol production and recent advances in the production of isobutanol from different biomass feedstocks.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/22/8222isobutanolbiorefinerymetabolic engineeringbiomass utilization |
| spellingShingle | Yide Su Weiwei Zhang Aili Zhang Wenju Shao Biorefinery: The Production of Isobutanol from Biomass Feedstocks Applied Sciences isobutanol biorefinery metabolic engineering biomass utilization |
| title | Biorefinery: The Production of Isobutanol from Biomass Feedstocks |
| title_full | Biorefinery: The Production of Isobutanol from Biomass Feedstocks |
| title_fullStr | Biorefinery: The Production of Isobutanol from Biomass Feedstocks |
| title_full_unstemmed | Biorefinery: The Production of Isobutanol from Biomass Feedstocks |
| title_short | Biorefinery: The Production of Isobutanol from Biomass Feedstocks |
| title_sort | biorefinery the production of isobutanol from biomass feedstocks |
| topic | isobutanol biorefinery metabolic engineering biomass utilization |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/22/8222 |
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