Consolidated biomass processing

Platform compounds are further converted to products by microbial fermentation processes. Saccharification and fermentation can be accomplished in a sequential process by separate hydrolysis and fermentation (SHF), or in a consolidated one-pot process known as simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (SSF) of single sugars or simultaneous saccharification and co-fermentation (SSCF) of all monosaccharides. Future developments might even combine the production of saccharolytic enzymes, the hydrolysis of cellulose, and hemicellulose to monomeric sugars and the fermentation of hexose and pentose sugars in a single process, the so-called consolidated biomass processing (CBP) (Menon and Rao 2012). 

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