渗透汽化法从丙酮-丁醇-乙醇中分离浓缩丁醇

发酵法生产丁醇的产物质量浓度很低,为了实现丁醇的高效分离浓缩,文中采用渗透汽化膜分离技术对模型发酵液(丙酮、丁醇、乙醇混合溶液,ABE)进行浓缩实验。结果表明:随着温度、真空度、错流速度、料液质量浓度的增大,丁醇通量上升;渗透汽化膜对丁醇选择性在温度50℃时最佳,并随真空度的减小而减小,随料液质量浓度的增大而降低。实验证明,渗透汽化法能实现丁醇的高效分离浓缩,并且利用串联阻力溶解扩散模型可较好地预测ABE溶液体系中各组分的传质和分离效果。     

Assessment of in situ butanol recovery by vacuum during acetone butanol ethanol (ABE) fermentation

BACKGROUND: Butanol fermentation is product limiting owing to butanol toxicity to microbial cells. Butanol (boiling point: 118 °C) boils at a higher temperature than water (boiling point: 100 °C) and application of vacuum technology to integrated acetone–butanol–ethanol (ABE) fermentation and recovery may have been ignored because of direct comparison of boiling points of water and butanol. This research investigated simultaneous ABE fermentation using Clostridium beijerinckii 8052 and in situ butanol recovery by vacuum. To facilitate ABE mass transfer and recovery at fermentation temperature, batch fermentation was conducted in triplicate at 35 °C in a 14 L bioreactor connected in series with a condensation system and vacuum pump. RESULTS: Concentration of ABE in the recovered stream was greater than that in the fermentation broth (from 15.7 g L^?1 up to 33 g L^?1). Integration of the vacuum with the bioreactor resulted in enhanced ABE productivity by 100% and complete utilization of glucose as opposed to a significant amount of residual glucose in the control batch fermentation. CONCLUSION: This research demonstrated that vacuum fermentation technology can be used for in situ butanol recovery during ABE fermentation and that C. beijerinckii 8052 can tolerate vacuum conditions, with no negative effect on cell growth and ABE production. Copyright © 2011 Society of Chemical Industry     

Bioconversion of barley straw and corn stover to butanol (a biofuel) in integrated fermentation and simultaneous product recovery bioreactors

In these studies concentrated sugar solutions of barley straw and corn stover hydrolysates were fermented using Clostridium beijerinckii P260 with simultaneous product recovery and compared with the performance of a control glucose batch fermentation process. The control glucose batch fermentation resulted in the production of 23.25 g L⁻¹ ABE from 55.7 g L⁻¹ glucose solution resulting in an ABE productivity and yield of 0.33 g L⁻¹ h⁻¹ and 0.42, respectively. The control reactor (I) was started with 62.5 g L⁻¹ initial glucose and the culture left 6.8 g L⁻¹ unused sugar due to butanol toxicity resulting in incomplete sugar utilization. Barley straw (BS) hydrolysate sugars (90.3 g L⁻¹) resulted in the production of 47.20 g L⁻¹ ABE with a productivity of 0.60 g L⁻¹ h⁻¹ and a yield of 0.42. Fermentation of corn stover (CS) hydrolysate sugars (93.1 g L⁻¹) produced 50.14 g L⁻¹ ABE with a yield of 0.43 and a productivity of 0.70 g L⁻¹ h⁻¹. These productivities are 182–212% higher than the control run. The culture was able to use 99.4–100% sugars (CS & BS respectively) present in these hydrolysates and improve productivities which were possible due to simultaneous product removal. Use of >100 g L⁻¹ hydrolysate sugars was not considered as it would have been toxic to the culture in the integrated (simultaneous fermentation and recovery) process.     

外添少量电子受体强化丙丁梭菌丙酮-丁醇-乙醇发酵的丁醇合成

强化利用丙丁梭菌发酵生产丁醇的主要方法有：添加电子载体强化NADH再生速率、通CO气体抑制氢化酶活性、外添少量丁酸等。但是,上述方法存在着总溶剂产量低、精制成本高、辅料价格昂贵等缺点。本研究通过向丙酮-丁醇-乙醇（ABE）发酵液添加少量电子受体（Na₂SO₄/CaSO₄,2g/L）,使得梭菌胞内的电子穿梭传递系统的电子流和质子流发生改变,较多电子e^-和质子H⁺走向NADH合成途径,有利于丁醇合成;电子受体添加还可以促进对梭菌生存/丁醇合成的“有益”氨基酸、特别是缬氨酸的胞内积累/分泌,进一步强化了丁醇生产。在7L罐规模的发酵条件下、添加2g/L的电子受体Na₂SO₄,ABE发酵的丁醇浓度达到12.96g/L的最高水平,丁醇/丙酮比也有提高,分别比对照组提高35%和10%。添加Na₂SO₄等廉价电子受体提高了ABE发酵中的丁醇浓度,虽然提高幅度有限,但却可为利用发酵工程技术提高丁醇浓度和丁醇/丙酮比提供一种新的途径。     

萃取-精馏耦合工艺处理环丁砜废水的流程模拟

针对聚芳醚树脂聚合过程产生的环丁砜废水的处理,提出了以二氯甲烷为萃取剂的萃取-精馏耦合新工艺。选用NRTL活度系数模型,采用Aspen plus流程模拟软件对萃取-精馏耦合工艺处理环丁砜废水的过程进行模拟研究,并应用灵敏度分析工具分别对萃取塔和精馏塔进行参数优化。模拟结果表明,当萃取塔的平衡级数为7、萃取相比为1∶1、精馏塔的理论板数为5、进料位置为第3块理论板时,废水中环丁砜的浓度从100g/L降至34mg/L,同时得到质量分数为98.31%的环丁砜,环丁砜的回收率达到99.95%,处理后的水和环丁砜都能够满足在聚芳醚树脂生产过程中循环使用的要求。与现有的四效蒸发工艺相比,萃取-精馏耦合工艺的热负荷降低了约37%,具有非常好的工业应用前景。     

Optimisation of a fermentation process for butanol production by particle swarm optimisation (PSO)

BACKGROUND: The performance of three particle swarm optimisation (PSO) algorithms was assessed in relation to their capability to optimise an alternative fermentation process for the production of biobutanol. The process consists of three interconnected units: fermentor, cell retention system and vacuum flash vessel (responsible for the continuous recovery of butanol from the broth). The dynamic behaviour of the process was described by a non‐linear mathematical model. Four constrained optimisation problems were formulated concerning the operation and design of flash fermentation: (1) maximisation of butanol productivity; (2) maximisation of substrate conversion; (3) and (4) adjustment of operating conditions in the face of problems of fluctuations in the quality of the agricultural raw material and changes in the kinetics of the microorganisms. RESULTS: The design and operation of the flash fermentation process based on the optimisation of productivity, instead of substrate conversion, resulted in a smaller fermentor and provided satisfactory values of operating conditions able to overcome problems of variations in the glucose concentration in the raw material and changes in kinetics. CONCLUSIONS: The differences among the PSO algorithms, i.e. the velocity equation and parameters values, had significant effects on the optimisation, the best results being obtained with the original velocity equation with the inertia weight decreasing linearly with each iteration. The PSO algorithms obtained solutions that obeyed constraints, demonstrating that a constraint handling method originally developed for genetic algorithms can be applied successfully to PSO algorithms. Copyright © 2010 Society of Chemical Industry     

Extracting long-chain fatty acids from a fermentation medium

Several solvents were evaluated for extracting free long-chain FA (LCFA) from a fermentation medium. Chloroform, chloroform/methanol (1∶1), hexane, and hexane/methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) (1∶1) were evaluated as alternative extraction solvents. Parameters considered for optimizing LCFA recoveries included pH and ionic strength. Maximal LCFA recoveries were obtained by adding 2 mL of the hexane/MTBE (1∶1) solvent mixture, 80 μL of 50% H₂SO₄, and 0.05 g NaCl to 1 mL of the aqueous sample and mixing for 15 min at 200 rpm. This method quantified saturated LCFA [capric acid (C_10∶0) to stearic acid (C_18∶0)] and unsaturated LCFA with 18 carbons [linoleic acid (C_18∶2) and oleic acid (C_18∶1)] with a 98 to 100% recovery. Caproic (C_6∶0) and caprylic (C_8∶0) acids were characterized by 27 and 76% recoveries, respectively.     

Separation of aromatic components from light cycle oil by solvent extraction

To improve the versatility of light cycle oil (LCO), separation of aromatic compounds from LCO by solvent extraction was investigated. LCO was analyzed to identify 35 components: 19 aromatics and 16 alkanes. The batch liquid–liquid equilibrium extraction of LCO was performed using furfural, sulfolane, and methanol as extraction solvents. In each solvent, the aromatics present in LCO were selectively extracted relative to the alkanes. The separation selectivities of aromatics relative to alkanes were larger in sulfolane than in the other solvents. Among the aromatic components, di- and tricyclic compounds were selectively extracted relative to the monocyclic ones.     

发酵-渗透汽化连续耦合生产ABE的动力学研究

采用PDMS膜生物反应器和丙酮丁醇梭菌进行了生产ABE的封闭循环连续发酵实验,研究了发酵和渗透汽化分离连续耦合条件下的发酵动力学行为。发酵-分离连续耦合实验运行持续时间长达 192 h。运行过程中,细胞浓度维持在 0.84~4.00 g/L,发酵液中ABE的总浓度为5.14~17.54 g/L,葡萄糖浓度大约为16.08~35.15 g/L,总体积产率为0.36 g/(L?h)。实验结果表明,膜生物反应器系统运行稳定,发酵-渗透汽化分离连续耦合生产ABE的操作模式具有可行性和优越性。     

Separation of perillyl alcohol from Korean orange peel by solvent extraction and chromatography

Perillyl alcohol, abundant mainly in oranges, has chemotherapeutic activity against carcinogenesis. The peel of Korean oranges was extracted by methanol, and the extract was partitioned by methanol-extract/water/chloroform, (20/5/30 vol%). To concentrate perillyl alcohol of the water-phase in the previous partition step, a glass column (2.5 i.d. x 15 cm) with reversed-phase C₁₈ packings (40–63 μm) was used. Finally, to obtain perillyl alcohol in a pure form, reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) was applied. Mobile phases used were water, methanol, and acetonitrile. The flow rate of the mobile phase was 1 ml/min and UV wavelength was fixed at 205 nm. The resolution of perillyl alcohol from Korean orange peel was achieved on a μ-Bondapak C₁₈ column (3.9x300 mm, 10 μm) and in-house Chromatographic column packed with 15 μm C₁₈ preparative packings. From the experimental results, the mobile phase composition was water/acetonitrile, (65/35 vol%) and the retention time of perillyl alcohol was 20.5 min in the analytical μ-Bondapak column. The effect of injection volumes was investigated in the preparative column.     

Trade-off optimal design of a biocompatible solvent for an extractive fermentation process

In this study, crisp and flexible optimization approaches are, respectively, introduced to design an optimal biocompatible solvent for an extractive fermentation process. The optimal design problem is formulated as a mixed-integer nonlinear programming model in which performance requirements of the compounds are reflected in the objective and the constraints. In general, the requirements for the objective and constraints are not rigid; consequently, the flexible or fuzzy optimization approach is applied to soften the rigid requirement for maximization of the extraction efficiency and to consider the mass flow rate and biocompatibility of solvent as the softened inequality constraints to the solvent design problem. Having elicited the membership function for the objective function and the constraint, the optimal solvent design problem can be formulated as a flexible goal attainment problem. Mixed-integer hybrid differential evolution is applied to solve the problem in order to find a satisfactory design.     

Adsorption of butanol from aqueous solution onto a new type of macroporous adsorption resin: Studies of adsorption isotherms and kinetics simulation

BACKGROUND: Owing to the rapid depletion of petroleum fuel, the production of bio‐butanol has attracted much attention. However, low butanol productivity severely limits its potential industrial application. It is important to establish an approach for recovering low‐concentration butanol from fermentation broth. Experiments were conducted using batch adsorption mode under different conditions of initial butanol concentration and temperature. Batch adsorption data were fitted to Langmuir and Freundlich isotherms and the macropore diffusion, pseudo‐first‐ and second‐order models for kinetic study. RESULTS: The maximum adsorption capacity of butanol onto KA‐I resin increase with increasing temperature, ranged from 139.836 to 304.397 mg g^?1. The equilibrium adsorption data were well fitted by the Langmuir isotherm. The adsorption kinetics was more accurately represented by the macropore diffusion model, which also clearly predicted the intraparticle distribution of the concentration. The effective pore diffusivity (D_p) was dependent upon temperature, but independent of initial butanol concentration, and was 0.251 × 10^?10, 0.73 × 10^?10, 1.32 × 10^?10 and 4.31 × 10^?10 m² s^?1 at 283.13, 293.13, 303.13 and 310.13 K, respectively. CONCLUSION: This work demonstrates that KA‐I resin is an efficient adsorbent for the removal of butanol from aqueous solutions and available for practical applications for future in situ product recovery of butanol from ABE fermentation broth. Copyright © 2012 Society of Chemical Industry     

Optimal biocompatible solvent design for a two-stage extractive fermentation process with cell recycling

In this study, crisp and fuzzy multiple-goal optimization approaches are respectively introduced to design an optimal biocompatible solvent to a two-stage extractive fermentation with cell recycling for ethanol production. When designing a biocompatible solvent for the extractive fermentation process, many issues, such as extractive efficiency, conversion, amount of solvent utilized and so on, have to be considered. An interactive multiple-goal design procedure is introduced to determine a trade-off result in order to satisfy such contradicted goals. Both approaches could be iterated to solve the interactive multiple-goal design problem in order to yield a trade-off result. However, the crisp optimization design is a tedious task that requires the designer to provide various pairs of the upper bounds for the design problem to obtain the corresponding solution. The fuzzy optimization approach is able to be trade-off several goals simultaneously and to yield the overall satisfactory grade for the product/process design problem.