Renewable Butanol
Fermentation, Process Technology and Biofuel Applications
1. Auflage April 2026
592 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Comprehensive resource addressing biobutanol production, recovery, applications, and commercialization through scientific, technological, and economic perspectives
Integrating scientific, technological, and economic perspectives, Renewable Butanol delivers comprehensive coverage of the subject, with information on microbial genetics, various feedstocks, energy-efficient product recovery techniques, high-productivity fermentations, aviation biofuel, and process economics. The book focuses on production of butanol from agricultural residues, municipal organic waste, industrial organic waste, glycerol, whey permeate, CO2 & H2, and food waste.
The textbook addresses genetics of butanol-producing microbial strains. Information on the production of butanol in high productivity reactors is presented along with various simultaneous product recovery techniques such as gas stripping, adsorption, and pervaporation. Process integration, process economics, and cost comparisons are also discussed, with case studies included throughout to elucidate key concepts.
Written by a team of highly qualified authors, Renewable Butanol explores sample topics such as:
* Butanol production from cellulosic biomass and microalgae
* Butanol recovery by perstraction, supercritical CO2 extraction, and ionic liquid extraction
* Separation of butanol by reverse osmosis, vacuum-assisted recovery, and distillation as a commercial process
* Hydrogen production and byproducts separation, transforming corn stover to sustainable aviation fuels through a hybrid approach, and applications of butanol other than biofuel
* Technologies for enhanced photosynthetic butanol production and lifecycle assessment of biobutanol
Renewable Butanol is an excellent up-to-date resource on the subject for academic and industrial researchers working on the production of fuels and chemicals from renewable feedstocks as well as those working in green and sustainable chemistry and chemical and process engineering.
Preface
Part I History & Genetics of butanol producing strains
1 Butanol History
2 An overview of challenges of butanol fermentation
3 Genetics of butanol producing strains
4 Characterization of butanol producing strains: Genetics, physiology, and biochemical functions of butanol-producing microbial strains
Part II Agricultural biomass and other economic feedstocks
5 Cellulosic inhibitors & elicitors
6 Butanol production from cellulosic biomass & Commercial Feedstocks
7 Food waste as a feedstock for butanol production
8 Energy crops for butanol fermentation
9 Domestic organic waste (DOW) & Municipal organic waste as fermentation substrates for butanol production
10 Butanol production from Yellow top, orchard waste, industrial waste and microalgae
11 Technologies for enhanced photosynthetic butanol production
12 Life cycle assessment of biobutanol
Part III Butanol production process technologies & energy efficient recovery processes
13 High productivity immobilized cell & cell recycle fermentations
14 Adsorption as a technique to recover butanol
15 Application of gas stripping to recover butanol
16 Challenging butanol recoveries: Pervaporation & pervaporation membranes
17 Butanol Recovery by extraction, perstraction, supercritical CO2 extraction and ionic liquid extraction
18 Separation of butanol by reverse osmosis
19 Vacuum assisted recovery
20 Distillation: Is it still the commercial process?
Part IV Process integration & insights on butanol production
21 Process integration on bioconversion to butanol
22 Perspective on industrial biofuel manufacturing: A continuous industrial platform for co-production of biofuels and valuable bioproducts using Clostridia
23 Process economics and cost comparisions
Part V By-products separation, aviation biofuel and other applications of butanol
24 Hydrogen production & byproducts separation
25 Corn stover to sustainable aviation fuels: A hybrid approach
26 Applications of butanol other than biofuel
27 Acetone (byproduct) market and applications
28 Perspectives on sustainable acetone-butanol-ethanol: Towards a Phoenix-like industrial re-emergence of the ABE
PROF. THADDEUS EZEJI, Fermentation & Biotechnology Group, The Ohio State University, USA
DR. ALAIN A. VERTÈS, NxR Biotechnologies, Switzerland
PROF. HAIBO HUANG, Associate Professor, Department of Food Science & Technology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
PROF. IAN MADDOX, College of Sciences, Massey University, New Zealand
PROF. ANTON FRIEDL, Director, Institute of Chemical, Environmental & Bioscience Engineering, Technical University Wien, Austria