Matches in UGent Biblio for { ?s ?p This study presents a processing pipeline for extracting and upgrading short chain carboxylates from fermentation broth, sidestreams and wastes. This technology would allow a biorefinery to generate high value products from streams and materials that would have previously been destined for digestion to biogas, and ultimately combustion. The pipeline can be considered as two parts: (i) Membrane Electrolysis, an electrochemical treatment step where water electrolysis counters acidification while driving fermentation products across an ion exchange membrane, and (ii) Biphasic Esterification, a reactive extraction technique that increases the value and volatility of the carboxylic acids through esterification. The technique is directly applicable to modern fermentation and biorefinery sidestreams, but also in cutting edge industrial biotechnology. Two examples include microbial electrosynthesis, where microbial communities upgrade carbon dioxide to acetate, powered by an electrical input; and microbial chain elongation, where a mixed community upgrades acetate to butyrate, and butyrate to caproate. In both cases, the Microbial Electrolysis and Biphasic Esterification pipeline could extract and valorize the end product.. }
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- aggregation abstract "This study presents a processing pipeline for extracting and upgrading short chain carboxylates from fermentation broth, sidestreams and wastes. This technology would allow a biorefinery to generate high value products from streams and materials that would have previously been destined for digestion to biogas, and ultimately combustion. The pipeline can be considered as two parts: (i) Membrane Electrolysis, an electrochemical treatment step where water electrolysis counters acidification while driving fermentation products across an ion exchange membrane, and (ii) Biphasic Esterification, a reactive extraction technique that increases the value and volatility of the carboxylic acids through esterification. The technique is directly applicable to modern fermentation and biorefinery sidestreams, but also in cutting edge industrial biotechnology. Two examples include microbial electrosynthesis, where microbial communities upgrade carbon dioxide to acetate, powered by an electrical input; and microbial chain elongation, where a mixed community upgrades acetate to butyrate, and butyrate to caproate. In both cases, the Microbial Electrolysis and Biphasic Esterification pipeline could extract and valorize the end product.".