Renewable Butanol

PROF. NASIB QURESHI, Bioenergy Research Unit, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, US Department of Agriculture, USA 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

• Foreword      Preface          Part I   History & Genetics of butanol producing strains1 Butanol History2 An overview of challenges of butanol fermentation3 Genetics of butanol producing strains4  Characterization of butanol producing strains: Genetics, physiology, and biochemical functions of butanol-producing microbial strainsPart II  Agricultural biomass and other economic feedstocks5 Cellulosic inhibitors & elicitors6 Butanol production from cellulosic biomass & Commercial Feedstocks7 Food waste as a feedstock for butanol production8 Energy crops for butanol fermentation9 Domestic organic waste (DOW) & Municipal organic waste as fermentation substrates for butanol production10 Butanol production from Yellow top, orchard waste, industrial waste and microalgae11 Technologies for enhanced photosynthetic butanol production12 Life cycle assessment of biobutanolPart III Butanol production process technologies & energy efficient recovery processes13 High productivity immobilized cell & cell recycle fermentations14 Adsorption as a technique to recover butanol15 Application of gas stripping to recover butanol16 Challenging butanol recoveries: Pervaporation & pervaporation membranes17 Butanol Recovery by extraction, perstraction, supercritical CO2 extraction and ionic liquid extraction18 Separation of butanol by reverse osmosis19 Vacuum assisted recovery20 Distillation: Is it still the commercial process?Part IV Process integration & insights on butanol production21 Process integration on bioconversion to butanol22 Perspective on industrial biofuel manufacturing: A continuous industrial platform for co-production of biofuels and valuable bioproducts using Clostridia23 Process economics and cost comparisionsPart V  By-products separation, aviation biofuel and other applications of butanol24 Hydrogen production & byproducts separation25 Corn stover to sustainable aviation fuels: A hybrid approach26 Applications of butanol other than biofuel27 Acetone (byproduct) market and applications28 Perspectives on sustainable acetone-butanol-ethanol: Towards a Phoenix-like industrial re-emergence of the ABE