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n-Butanol derived from biochemical and chemical routes: A review

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Ndaba, B., Chiyanzu, I., Marx, S.·2015·Biotechnology Reports

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species to ferment sugars from biomass. However, the route is associated with some disadvantages such as low butanol yield and by-product formation (acetone and ethanol). On the other hand, butanol can be directly produced from ethanol through aldol condensation over metal oxides/ hydroxyapatite catalysts. This paper suggests that the chemical conversion route is more preferable than the ABE process, because the reaction proceeds more quickly compared to the fermentation route and fewer steps are required to get to the product.

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  • In the last few years, the biotechnological process to produce butan-1-ol (1-butanol) has been improved and it is economically equivalent to better-established petrochemical processes.

    “In the last few years, the biotechnological process to produce butan-1-ol (1-butanol) has been improved and it is economically equivalent to better-established petrochemical processes (Ndaba et al., 2015).”

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  1. [74]Huang H. Liu H. Gan Y.R. Genetic modification of critical enzymes and involved genes in butanol biosynthesis from biomass Biotechnol. Adv. 28 2010 651 657 20580810

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Authors
Ndaba, B., Chiyanzu, I., & Marx, S.
Affiliations
North-West University (ZA)
Corresponding author
Ndaba, B.
Venue
Biotechnology Reports
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2015-12
Volume
8
Pages
1-9
ISSN
2215-017X (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1050940715
Cited by
307
References
75
Citations by year
2026: 15 · 2025: 27 · 2024: 20 · 2023: 40 · 2022: 35 · 2021: 40 · 2020: 40 · 2019: 28 · 2018: 39 · 2017: 15 · 2016: 8
FWCI
1.61
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Biotechnology Reports (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
  • National Research Foundation
  • Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Catalysis for Biomass Conversion
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Biofuel production and bioconversion
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
Keywords
n-butanol, butanol production, acetone-butanol-ethanol fermentation, aldol condensation, metal oxide catalysts, hydroxyapatite catalysts, ethanol conversion, by-product formation

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