Journal
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 143, Issue -, Pages 397-404Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2013.06.023
Keywords
Acetone-butanol-ethanol fermentation; Coculture; Fibrous-bed bioreactor; Free-cell fermentation; Immobilized-cell fermentation
Funding
- Natural Science Foundation of China [21276093]
- Planned Science and Technology Project of Guangdong Province, China [2011A080403022]
- Ministry of Education, China [20100172110027]
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Cocultures of Clostridium beijerinckii and Clostridium tyrobutyricum in free-cell and immobilized-cell fermentation modes were investigated as a means of enhancing butanol production. The immobilized fermentation was performed in a fibrous-bed bioreactor (FBB). The results demonstrated that two-strain coculture significantly enhanced butanol production, yield and volumetric productivity compared with those in pure culture with or without butyric acid. Further, continuous immobilized-cell cocultures in two FBBs using glucose, cassava starch, or cane molasses were conducted at a dilution rate of 0.144 h(-1). The butanol production (6.66 g/L), yield (0.18 g/g), and productivity (0.96 g/L/h) were obtained with cassava starch as the substrate. Meanwhile, the acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) yield (0.36 g/g) was the highest among all processes investigated, suggesting that this continuous coculture mode may be suitable for industrial ABE production with no need for repeated sterilization and inoculation. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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