Chemocatalytic Upgrading of Tailored Fermentation Products Toward Biodiesel

Sanil Sreekumar, Zachary C. Baer, Elad Gross, Sasisanker Padmanaban, Konstantinos Goulas, Gorkem Gunbas, Selim Alayoglu, Harvey W. Blanch, Douglas S. Clark, F. Dean Toste

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2445-2448
Number of pages4
JournalChemSusChem
Volume7
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 2014
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Clostridium beijerinckii
  • acetone–butanol–ethanol
  • biodiesel
  • biomass
  • hydrotalcite
  • isopropanol–butanol–ethanol

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Environmental Chemistry
  • General Chemical Engineering
  • General Materials Science
  • General Energy

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Chemocatalytic Upgrading of Tailored Fermentation Products Toward Biodiesel'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this