title: Butanol production from lignocellulosics.
abstract: Clostridium spp. produce n-butanol in the acetone/butanol/ethanol process. For sustainable industrial scale butanol production, a number of obstacles need to be addressed including choice of feedstock, the low product yield, toxicity to production strain, multiple-end products and downstream processing of alcohol mixtures. This review describes the use of lignocellulosic feedstocks, bioprocess and metabolic engineering, downstream processing and catalytic refining of n-butanol.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biotechnology and Chemical Technology, Aalto University, 00076, Espoo, Finland. german.jurgens@aalto.fi
authors.forename: German
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Jurgens
authors.forename: Shrikant
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Survase
authors.forename: Oxana
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Berezina
authors.forename: Evangelos
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Sklavounos
authors.forename: Juha
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Linnekoski
authors.forename: Antti
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kurkijärvi
authors.forename: Minna
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Väkevä
authors.forename: Adriaan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: van Heiningen
authors.forename: Tom
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Granström
mesh_terms: D056804:Biofuels; D000440:Butanols / Q000378:metabolism*; D003013:Clostridium / Q000378:metabolism; D005285:Fermentation; D007218:Industrial Microbiology / Q000379:methods*; D008031:Lignin / Q000378:metabolism*; D060847:Metabolic Engineering / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D056804:Biofuels; D000440:Butanols; C036909:lignocellulose; D008031:Lignin