Bioconversion Processes
A special issue of Fermentation (ISSN 2311-5637). This special issue belongs to the section "Fermentation Process Design".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2017) | Viewed by 98506
Special Issue Editor
Interests: waste gas treatment; wastewater treatment; fermentation technology; biodegradation; bioconversion; biofuels; biorefinery
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Dear Colleagues,
Compared to conventional chemical technologies and other similar industrial processes, bioprocesses represent a more sustainable and environmentally-friendly alternative for the production of fuels and platform chemicals. In biorefineries, different kinds of feedstocks, such as biomass or lignocellulosic materials in general, can be used and fermented by microorganisms (e.g., bacteria, fungi, algae), after some pretreatment steps, to produce high added-value metabolites. More recently, wastes, wastewaters and also waste gases have been shown to be suitable for resource recovery or for their bioconversion to (bio)fuels (e.g., ethanol, butanol, hexanol, biodiesel, biohydrogen, biogas) or other commercial products (e.g., biopolymers). In this sense, much effort has also been made to bioconvert greenhouse gases, such as CO2, into useful products.
The goal of this Special Issue is to publish both recent innovative research data, as well as review papers on the fermentation of different types of substrates to commercial (bio)fuels and (bio)products, mainly focusing on the bioconversion of pollutants in solid, liquid, or gas phases (wastes, wastewaters, waste gases).
Prof. Dr. Christian Kennes
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Acetogens
- Algae
- Bioalcohols
- Biodiesel
- Biogas
- Biohydrogen
- Bioreactor
- Carbon dioxide (CO2)
- Carbon monoxide (CO)
- Clostridia
- Fungi
- Life cycle assessment (LCA)
- Metabolic engineering
- Methane (CH4)
- Microbial electrosynthesis (MES)
- Polyhydroxyalkanoates
- Solid waste
- Syngas
- Waste gas
- Wastewater
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