Energy-efficient production of butanol (an advanced biofuel) from eucalyptus wood

• Grant number: 15/50243-2
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: February 01, 2017
• End date: January 31, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Chemical Engineering - Chemical Process Industries
• Agreement: Ohio State University
• Principal Investigator: Adriano Pinto Mariano
• Grantee: Adriano Pinto Mariano
• Principal researcher abroad: Thaddeus Chukwuemeka Ezeji
• Institution abroad: Ohio State University, Columbus, United States
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Engenharia Química (FEQ). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Dr. Ezeji (OSU) is a research associate in the ongoing FAPESP-funded project and in the two planned visits to UNICAMP, he will offer training (in butanol fermentation and metabolic engineering) to students involved in the project and to those interested in the research subject. In addition, he will contribute to experimental plans and designs, and the start-up of the anaerobic cultivation chamber in the LOPCA-Bioen laboratory at FEQ/UNICAMP. Dr. Mariano is the PI of the ongoing FAPESP-funded project. His current research is focused on the development of fermentation technologies and design methodologies to serve the emerging forest and sugarcane biorefinery industries. In his visit to OSU, he will have the chance to discuss progress and challenges of ongoing project and collaborations with Dr. Ezeji's group and collaborators, share knowledge and discuss more areas of mutual benefits to OSU and UNICAMP. Also on the UNICAMP side, an MSc student (already identified) is planned to spend a two-week laboratory training at OSU on lignocellulosic biomass conversion to butanol and mitigation of lignocellulose-derived microbial inhibitory compounds. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

ASSUMPCAO, DANIEL DE CASTRO; CCOPA RIVERA, ELMER ALBERTO; TOVAR, LAURA PLAZAS; EZEJI, THADDEUS CHUKWUEMEKA; MACIEL FILHO, RUBENS; MARIANO, ADRIANO PINTO. Resolving mismatches in the flexible production of ethanol and butanol from eucalyptus wood with vacuum fermentation. Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering, v. 41, n. 11, p. 1651-1663, NOV 2018. (15/50243-2, 16/01785-0, 15/07097-5)

PEREIRA, GUILHERME C. Q.; BRAZ, DANILO S.; HAMAGUCHI, MARCELO; EZEJI, THADDEUS C.; MACIEL FILHO, RUBENS; MARIANO, ADRIANO P.. Process design and economics of a flexible ethanol-butanol plant annexed to a eucalyptus kraft pulp mill. Bioresource Technology, v. 250, p. 345-354, FEB 2018. (15/50243-2, 15/07097-5)

RIVERA, ELMER C.; ASSUMPCAO, DANIEL C.; KWON, HYUN J.; OKONKWO, CHRISTOPHER C.; EZEJI, THADDEUS C.; FILHO, RUBENS M.; MARIANO, ADRIANO P.. Mechanistic modeling of redox balance effects on the fermentation of eucalyptus wood-derived xylose to acetone-butanol-ethanol. Biochemical Engineering Journal, v. 190, p. 12-pg., 2023-01-01. (15/07097-5, 16/01785-0, 15/50243-2)