화학공학소재연구정보센터
홈 로그인 로그아웃 연락처 사이트맵
Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, Vol.29, No.7, 831-850, July, 2012
DOI10.1007/s11814-012-0080-6  Export Citation
Bioprocessing aspects of fuels and chemicals from biomass
Sun Uk Lee, Kwonsu Jung, Gwon Woo Park, Charles Seo, Yeon Ki Hong1, Won Hi Hong†, and Ho Nam Chang†
  • Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), 291, Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-701, Korea
  • 1Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Korea National University of Transportation, 50, Daehak-ro, Chungju-si, Chungbuk 380-702, Korea
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This review deals with a recent development of biofuels and chemicals from biomass. Some of the grainbased biofuels and chemicals have already been in commercial operation, including fuel ethanol, biodiesel, 1.3-propanediol, polylactic acid (PLA) and polyhydroxy butyric acid/alkanoates (PHB/PHA). The next generation bioproducts will be based on lignocellulosics due to their abundance and to stabilize rising food prices. However, the technologies of handling biomass are yet in their infancy and suffer from low yield, low product titer, and low productivity. This review focuses on bioprocessing technologies for biofuels production: organic raw biomaterials available in Korea; volatile fatty acids platform, multi-stage continuous high cell density culture (MSC-HCDC), enrichment of fermentation broth by forward osmosis; various purification methods of pervaporation of ethanol, solvent extraction on succinic, lactic acids and reactive separation methods.
Keywords:Biorefinery;Productivity;Product Titer;High Cell Density Culture;Products Enrichment;Separation
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