Objective
The aim of this coordinated action project is to bring together researchers from different European countries studying the ABE-fermentation.
In particular to bring together researchers of different disciplines, esp. microbiologists, biotechnologists and chemical/process engineers. It is expected that this will provide further support for the Pilot Plant Testing of the ABE-fermentation (EU-RTD project AIR3-CT94-2153).
The ABE-fermentation produces chemical feedstocks (butanol, acetone and hydrogen) on a renewable and CO2-neutral basis from biomass or biomass wastes. The ABE-products can serve as chemical feedstocks or as diesel and/or petrol extender/substitute.
The present State of the Art for the fermentative production of ABE products from biomass can be summarised as 'technically possible, but economically and energetically expensive'. Research is therefore required to reduce both the costs and the energy requirements of the process. A combined approach with process engineers applying modern engineering techniques (e.g. membrane processes, energy 'recycling', etc) and microbiologists improving the fermentation characteristics (e.g. reliability, phage resistance, productivity, etc) and perhaps improved product tolerance (product inhibition is a problem) is seen as a strong association in support of improved process economic viability.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences biological sciences microbiology virology
- natural sciences chemical sciences organic chemistry hydrocarbons
- social sciences economics and business economics production economics productivity
- engineering and technology industrial biotechnology bioprocessing technologies fermentation
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1060 VIENNA
Austria
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