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Role of Different Feedstocks on the Butanol Production Through Microbial and Catalytic Routes

  • Shalini Biswas EMAIL logo , Richa Katiyar , B. R. Gurjar and Vikas Pruthi

Abstract

Among the renewable fuels, butanol has become an attractive, economic and sustainable choice because of cost elevation in petroleum fuel, diminishing the oil reserves and an increase of green house effect. Butanol can be derived from renewable sources by using the natural bio-resources and agro-wastes such as orchard wastes, peanut wastes, wheat straw, barley straw and grasses via Acetone Butanol Ethanol (ABE) process. On the other hand, butanol can be directly formed from chemical route involving catalysts also such as from ethanol through aldol condensation. This review presents extensive evaluation for the production of butanol deploying microbial and catalytic routes.

Acknowledgement

We are grateful to Department of Science and Technology (GrantNo.- DST-803-CTS and Project No. SR/WOS-A/LS-624/2013(G) for the financial support on this project.

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