The autotrophic biorefinery : raw materials from biotechnology / edited by Robert Kourist, Sandy Schmidt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kourist, Robert, editor.

Schmidt, Sandy, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Materials--Biotechnology.

Materials.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (414 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2021]

Summary:

The depletion of fossil resources and an ever-growing human population create an increasing demand for the development of sustainable processes for the utilization of renewable resources. As autotrophic microorganisms offer numerous metabolic pathways for the fixation of carbon dioxide and the metabolic utilization of light, electricity and inorganic energy donors, they are expected to play a pivotal role in an emerging carbon neutral society. This text-book presents the metabolic principles of autotrophy and current efforts for their utilization in biotechnology, including photoautotrophic, chemolithoautotrophic and electroautotrophic organisms. It outlines how modern molecular biology and process engineering create technologies that allow to use industrial off-gases and inorganic energy for the synthesis of bio-based plastics, materials and other chemical products. The text-book is ideally suited for students in advanced graduate and master courses and offers a reference for PhD students, engineers, chemists, biologists and all with an interests in biotechnology and renewable resources.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of authors

Chapter 1 A short recapitulation of the autotrophic metabolism

Chapter 2 Metabolic engineering of microbes

Chapter 3 Protein engineering

Chapter 4 Gas fermentation

Chapter 5 Introduction to autotrophic cultivation of microalgae in photobioreactors

Chapter 6 Synthetic biology of cyanobacteria

Chapter 7 Algal biotechnology

Chapter 8 Biocatalytic applications of autotrophic organisms

Chapter 9 Photocatalysis to promote cell-free biocatalytic reactions

Chapter 10 Electroautotrophs: feeding microbes with current for CO&lt

sub&gt

2&lt

/sub&gt

fixation

Chapter 11 Cupriavidus necator - a broadly applicable aerobic hydrogen-oxidizing bacterium

Chapter 12 Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) as renewable resource

Chapter 13 Applications of mixed microbial cultures in industrial biotechnology

Chapter 14 Economic framework of autotrophic processes

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110549959

3110549956

9783110550603

3110550601

OCLC:

1276857643