Biobutanol Production from Biomass

Niemistö, Johanna; Saavalainen, Paula; Isomäki, Ritva; Kolli, Tanja; Huuhtanen, Mika; Keiski, Riitta L.

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-34519-7_17

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“…Since the discovering of the ABE fermentation using Clostridium acetobutylicum by Pasteur in 1861, this pathway was used to product acetone and 1-butanol. However, according to the study of Niemistö et al (2013), the production was industrialized in the 20th century. As soon as the development of petrochemical production, ABE fermentation was forsaken.…”

Section: Environmental Evaluationmentioning

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Multiproduct biorefinery optimal design: application to the acetone-butanol-ethanol system

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Montastruc

Meyer

et al. 2020

Oil Gas Sci. Technol. – Rev. IFP Energies nouvelles

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The bioproduct from biomass appears to be major interests for future years given the spectacular and fast advances in microbiology. But the industrial developments of the new bioproducts production struggle to follow this constant and massive creation. Therefore, to estimate the potential of new bioproducts is necessary to pre-design biorefineries with the highest relevance. This study proposes a methodology assessing the relevance of such industrialized production. The presented tool is a multi-scale methodology describing a decision-support tool for the determination of an optimal biorefinery from a superstructure through process simulation, and economic and environmental evaluations. To optimize the biorefinery, energy integration is also applied on the selected processes, because a biorefinery needs a large amount of energy to operate, especially in the pretreatment and purification steps of the process due to huge water flowrate. Thus, the tool designs an efficient, profitable and sustainable biorefinery. We demonstrate our methodology capabilities with the acetone, butanol and ethanol production (ABE system) from lignocellulosic biomass, especially from wood wastes.

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Section: Environmental Evaluationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multiproduct biorefinery optimal design: application to the acetone-butanol-ethanol system

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Montastruc

Meyer

et al. 2020

Oil Gas Sci. Technol. – Rev. IFP Energies nouvelles

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“…Biodegradability Butanol is more biodegradable than ethanol and will biodegrade in the environment under aerobic conditions. Several reviews on biobutanol production have been published recently [6,[10][11][12] and there is a number of active biobutanol production plants in China [13]. In addition, companies such as DuPont, British Petroleum, Cobalt Technologies and Gevo Inc. are investigating biobutanol production and aiming to initiate industrial scale production.…”

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Biobutanol as a Potential Sustainable Biofuel - Assessment of Lignocellulosic and Waste-based Feedstocks

Niemistö¹,

Saavalainen²,

Pongrácz³

et al. 2013

J. sustain. dev. energy water environ. syst.

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Cite as: Niemistö, J., Saavalainen, P., Pongrácz, E., Keiski ABSTRACTThis paper introduces the production process of an alternative transportation biofuel, biobutanol. European legislation concerning biofuels and their sustainability criteria are also briefly described. The need to develop methods to ensure more sustainable and efficient biofuel production processes is recommended. In addition, the assessment method to evaluate the sustainability of biofuels is considered and sustainability assessment of selected feedstocks for biobutanol production is performed. The benefits and potential of using lignocellulosic and waste materials as feedstocks in the biobutanol production process are also discussed. Sustainability assessment in this paper includes cultivation, harvest/collection and upstream processing (pretreatment) of feedstocks, comparing four main biomass sources: food crops, non-food crops, food industry by-product and wood-based biomass. It can be concluded that the highest sustainable potential in Finland is when biobutanol production is integrated into pulp & paper mills.

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“…Butanol is the common name of a group of substances that present the chemical formula C 4 H 9 OH. Its four isomers are the n-butanol (or 1-butanol), the iso-butanol, the sec-butanol (or 2-butanol) and the tert-butanol (Niemistö et al, 2013). The Tab.…”

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“…One of the most important methods is the ABE process, which involves fermentation of organic matter by bacteria from the Clostridium gender, specially the Clostridium acetobutylicum, generating a mixture of acetone, butanol and ethanol in different proportions. Depending on the yeast, the bacteria can consume either food-related feedstock, like potato starch and sugar cane juice, or lignocellulosis, available in organic waste (Niemistö et al, 2013). Other processes, like the one described by Dias et al (2014), use ethanol as feedstock for butanol production.…”

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Comparison between n-butanol and ethanol combustion kinetic models through one-dimensional premixed flame simulations

Rocha¹,

Alviso²,

Darabiha³

et al. 2015

23rd ABCM International Congress of Mechanical Engineering

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The alcohol n-Butanol is an organic substance being proposed as an alternative fuel for internal combustion engines. Improvements in its production as a bio-fuel, through fermentation processes, and its combustion characteristics, close to those of gasoline and diesel, grow attention to its viability as a renewable and economically interesting substitute to petrol-based fuels. However, few is known about its combustion characteristics, thus motivating research in that area. Ethanol is a bio-fuel widely used in commercial engines, specially in Brazil and the United States, and is a proposed blending agent for n-butanol. The present study compares chemical kinetic models for n-butanol, ethanol and their mixtures through numerical simulation in order to generate information for a future experiment, to be developed in a counter-flow laminar burner. In this equipment a mixture of fuel and air is injected through an axi-symmetric convergent burner against either the same mixture or a methane/air mixture. Hot gases are located between two flame fronts parallel to the stagnation plane. The flame front structure depends on the equivalence ratio and the strain rate. Strain rate can be changed by varying the injection velocities. In the present study,1-D formulation is employed to describe the premixed flame configuration. After that, further analysis in 1-D counter-flow configuration shall be done. The system is modeled by considering detailed chemical kinetics and multi-component transport properties.

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Biobutanol Production from Biomass

Cited by 13 publications

References 125 publications

Multiproduct biorefinery optimal design: application to the acetone-butanol-ethanol system

Multiproduct biorefinery optimal design: application to the acetone-butanol-ethanol system

Biobutanol as a Potential Sustainable Biofuel - Assessment of Lignocellulosic and Waste-based Feedstocks

Comparison between n-butanol and ethanol combustion kinetic models through one-dimensional premixed flame simulations

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