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Adsorptive recovery of butanol from acetone butanol and ethanol (ABE) model solution using the kraft lignin isolated from Sterculia foetida shells
Biobutanol is produced from the acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation. The major bottleneck of ABE fermentation is the self-inhibition of cells...
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Experimental Evaluation of a Diesel Engine Performance and Emission Characteristics Powered by Hybrid Biodiesel and Butanol Blends
The increased demand of fossil fuels used in a diesel engine might be taken as one of the important aspects which inspire researchers to look for...
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Detoxification with resin promotes the shift from acidogenesis to solventogenesis and prevents acid crash during butanol fermentation from wheat straw
Wheat straw is the second most abundant agricultural biomass. Conversion from wheat straw to butanol, the second-generation biofuel, offers an...
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Evaluation of Combustion Characteristics in a Common Rail Diesel Engine Fueled Butanol/N-Heptane/Diesel Blends
Due to increasing global warming concerns, the search for alternative fuels has accelerated to reduce exhaust emissions from internal combustion...
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One-step conversion of sweet potato waste to butanol via fermentation by Clostridium acetobutylicum
Biobutanol has been perceived as a renewable green liquid fuel to replace fossil fuel due to its superior properties. Butanol production from waste...
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Application of raw industrial sweetpotato hydrolysates for butanol production by Clostridium beijerinckii NCIMB 8052
High starch sweetpotatoes (HSSPs) are renewable feedstocks with the potential to support industrially relevant chemical production. Here, three HSSP...
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Butanol production from alkaline pretreated bamboo using co-culture of wood-rotting fungus Phlebia sp. MG-60-P2 and bacterium Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum
Biofuel production is currently focused on the utilization of polysaccharides in lignocellulosic biomass. In this research, butanol was produced from...
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Fractionation of poplar through solid acid pretreatment assisted by mild alkali-1-butanol immersion to effectively produce xylose, glucose, and solid lignin
The efficient fractionation and recovery of lignocellulosic biomass (LCB) constituents, hemicellulose, cellulose, and lignin, are ideal for LCB...
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Carbonized biomass as an immobilization carrier in acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation by Clostridium beijerinckii JCM 8026
ABE fermentation has been used to produce biobutanol for a long period of time. The main obstacles consisted of low productivity and cell viability....
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Co-fermentation of lactic acid and acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) from the deep eutectic solvent–pretreated Aloe vera leaf rind through sequential valorization of holocellulose
Aloe vera (AV) leaf rind, a potent second-generation lignocellulosic biomass, was employed for fermentative co-production of lactic acid (LA) and...
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Green synthesis of manganese dioxide nanocatalyst for the production of bio-butanol from biomass: modelling using Aspen Plus
In this work, fruit peel and vegetable waste from Citrus sinensis and Brassica oleracea were dried and crushed into powder. Ultrasonic and...
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Effect of n-Butanol and Gasoline Blends on SI Engine Performance and Emissions
Biobutanol is a very promising renewable fuel for spark-ignition (SI) engines due to quite similar properties to conventional gasoline. This chapter...
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Improvements in the formulation of sugarcane-sweet sorghum juices fermentation media for enhanced isopropanol and butanol production
The production of isopropanol and butanol (IB) has been gaining attention through isopropanol-butanol-ethanol (IBE) fermentation. In this work, the...
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Efficient production of acetone butanol ethanol from sole fresh and rotten potatoes by various Clostridium strains
This study aimed to evaluate rotten potato in the fermentation of acetone butanol ethanol (ABE). For this purpose, three strains, Clostridium...
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Development of a bidimensional analysis approach for n–butanol and electricity production in apple pomace biorefineries in a Mexican context
Apple pomace (AP) is a by-product generated from the transformation of fresh apple into different products of the food industry; however, it remains...
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Butanol production coupled with acidogenesis and CO2 conversion for improved carbon utilization
Butanol production from lignocellulosic biomass has a low overall yield due to carbon loss in the form of xylose during the biomass pretreatment and...
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Separate effect of biodiesel, n-butanol, and biogas on performance and emission characteristics of diesel engine: a review
Unsustainable energy sources are one of the preeminent supply specks of power generation in the prevailing scenario. The production and utilization...
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Effect of Nitromethane–n-Butanol–Diesel Blends on Diesel Engine Emissions
Toxic emissions from diesel engines are great contributors to localized urban and global pollution. Researchers have used different methods to reduce...
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Biobutanol production by batch and fed-batch fermentations from the green coconut husk hydrolysate using C. beijerinckii ATCC 10132
The present study evaluates the potential of green coconut fiber in the production of cellulosic butanol by ABE (acetone-butanol-ethanol)...
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Challenges in Blending the Diesel–Ethanol Blends Using Butanol as Co-solvent Along with Diesel for Replacing the Neat Diesel to Fuel Compression Ignition Engines Suitable for Low-Temperature Application
Alcohols are renewable in nature and are manufactured from biomass. Butanol is a higher alcohol, and previous researchers reported that it can be...