Biorenewable Fuels

Industrial Biotechnology Products and Processes, First Edition. Edited by Christoph Wittmann and James C. Liao. 2017 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH Co. KGaA. Published 2017 by Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH Co. KGaA. 

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Fig. 7.8 Transportation fuels and petroleum-fueled, biorenewable-fueled, and renewable electricity-powered vehicles...

Jarboe LR. (2011). YqhD a broad-substrate range aldehyde reductase with various applications in production of biorenewable fuels and chemicals. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol, 89, 249-257. 

Jarboe LR, Zhang X, Wang X, Moore JC, Shanmugam KT, Ingram LO. (2010). Metabolic engineering for production of biorenewable fuels and chemicals contributions of synthetic... 

Part VII, Biorenewable Fuels, deals with bio-based transportation fuels. Worldwide ambitions to meet more than a quarter of the demand for transportation fuels by bio-based fuels make ethanol (Chapter 18) and butanols (Chapter 19) important contemporary and future products. 

One goal of the metabolic engineering work described here is the development of microbial biocatalysts with improved production of ethanol from the desired substrate. A second goal, with varying degree of emphasis, is to learn why certain strategies or manipulations were successful (or not). This sort of analysis is especially important when attempting to extrapolate results from ethanol production to other biorenewable fuels and chemicals. 

While the main goal of this chapter has been to highlight the role that ethanol has played in the development of the metabolic engineering field, the latter has also played a similar role in the development of biomass deconstruction methods. Here we discuss examples of biomass deconstruction techniques that were first demonstrated with ethanol production but have since been extrapolated to other biorenewable fuels and chemicals. 

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