title: Chemocatalytic upgrading of tailored fermentation products toward biodiesel.
abstract: Biological and chemocatalytic processes are tailored in order to maximize the production of sustainable biodiesel from lignocellulosic sugar. Thus, the combination of hydrotalcite-supported copper(II) and palladium(0) catalysts with a modification of the fermentation from acetone-butanol-ethanol to isopropanol-butanol-ethanol predictably produces higher concentrations of diesel-range components in the alkylation reaction.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 (USA), Fax: (+1) 510-643-9480; Energy Biosciences Institute, University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 (USA).
authors.forename: Sanil
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sreekumar
authors.forename: Zachary C
authors.initials: ZC
authors.lastname: Baer
authors.forename: Elad
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gross
authors.forename: Sasisanker
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Padmanaban
authors.forename: Konstantinos
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Goulas
authors.forename: Gorkem
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gunbas
authors.forename: Selim
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Alayoglu
authors.forename: Harvey W
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Blanch
authors.forename: Douglas S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Clark
authors.forename: F Dean
authors.initials: FD
authors.lastname: Toste
mesh_terms: D056804:Biofuels; D002384:Catalysis; D003300:Copper / Q000737:chemistry; D005285:Fermentation; D005742:Gasoline; D010165:Palladium / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D056804:Biofuels; D005742:Gasoline; D010165:Palladium; D003300:Copper
keywords: Clostridium beijerinckii; acetone-butanol-ethanol; biodiesel; biomass; hydrotalcite; isopropanol-butanol-ethanol