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Integrating Biomass Pyrolysis with Microbial Conversion Processes to Produce Biofuels and Biochemicals

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Abstract

Biomass is considered to be one of the most promising sources of renewable resources when it comes to producing biofuels and biochemicals. Several technologies have been developed to assist in transforming biomass into useful products, pyrolysis being one of them. However, pyrolysis products have not yet become competitive alternatives to fossil fuel resources. They still require further processing to improve their fuel characteristics and to produce chemicals. On the other hand, due to advancements in industrial biotechnology, the microbial conversion of biomass has rapidly been evolving in recent times. Thanks to this, integrating pyrolysis into microbial conversion processes is provoking a great deal of interest. This would allow the further transformation of pyrolysis products into high value biofuels and biochemicals. In this chapter, an overview of possible approaches to integrate pyrolysis and microbial processes is presented. Furthermore, the opportunities and challenges involving microbial conversion of pyrolysis products are summarised. In particular, the inhibitory effects of pyrolysis oil and possible detoxification methods are discussed. Finally, the future direction of research is highlighted.

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Tharaka Rama Krishna C. Doddapaneni gratefully acknowledge the financial support by the European Regional Development Fund and the programme Mobilitas Pluss (Grant No MOBJD405) and base funded project of EMU PM180260TIBT.

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    Richard L. Smith Jr

  3. Biomass Group, College of Engineering, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

    Lujiang Xu

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Doddapaneni, T.R.K.C., Kikas, T. (2020). Integrating Biomass Pyrolysis with Microbial Conversion Processes to Produce Biofuels and Biochemicals. In: Fang, Z., Smith Jr, R.L., Xu, L. (eds) Production of Biofuels and Chemicals with Pyrolysis. Biofuels and Biorefineries, vol 10. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2732-6_9

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