Biorefineries platforms

The Pine Biorefinery Platform Chemicals Value Chain... 

Recently, microbial production of SA from renewable biomass has been recognized as a potential alternative for SA production by the US Department of Energy and other groups [6-8]. Production of SA from renewable biomass can be environmentally advantageous, as CO2 is assimilated during SA fermentation, and can alleviate our dependence on fossil resources. Hence, SA is becoming a forerunner in biorefinery platform chemicals. Among the various... 

C4 dicarboxyUc acids are already identified in the US Department of Energy s list (2004) of potential large-scale biomass-derived chemicals (Werpy and Petersen 2004). In the past decade, succinic acid has established itself as a foreruimer in biorefinery platform chemicals. Compared with traditional synthetic methods by fossil fuels, the production of succinic acid from natural derived biomass would alleviate our dependence on oil supply for the production of these platform chemicals in future. Recognizing the importance of the biotechnological production of succinic acid, herein we intend to review microorganism producers and... 

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