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Producing Fuels and Fine Chemicals from Biomass Using Nanomaterials
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Producing Fuels and Fine Chemicals from Biomass Using Nanomaterials

by Rafael Luque, Alina Mariana Balu
October 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
352 pages
12h 45m
English
CRC Press
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243Processes for Production of Chemicals from Carbohydrates
So far, very little is disclosed in literature about the actual process of iso-butanol
toward para-xylene. Clearly, the chemistry is based on the fermentation technol-
ogy to iso-butanol developed by Gevo Inc.
76
The theoretical stoichiometric route for
obtaining iso-butanol via the fermentation pathway developed by GEVO is
1 glucose 1 iBuOH + 2 CO
2
+ H
2
O
Two moles of CO
2
are lost in this pathway, and even with a 100% theoretical
molar yield of the reaction above, only a 41% theoretical weight yield of isobutanol
per weight of glucose can be obtained. A practical isobutanol yield of approximately
82%–90% of theoretical was reported in the examples using corn starch as the start-
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