Journal
ENGINEERING IN LIFE SCIENCES
Volume 13, Issue 4, Pages 376-384Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/elsc.201200106
Keywords
Activated carbon; Biodiesel; Clostridium butyricum; Raw glycerol; 1; 3-Propanediol
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Funding
- National 863 Project [2006AA020103]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21076172]
- University of Science and Technology in Fujian province [2010H6023]
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Raw glycerol contains inhibiting impurities that render its bioconversion difficult. In this work, raw glycerol used in 1,3-propanediol fermentation by Clostridium butyricum was pretreated with activated carbon. Compared with pure glycerol, the untreated raw glycerol inhibited fermentation. Therefore, the raw glycerol was treated using dusty activated carbon as an adsorbent in batch fermentation, resulting in a shortening of the fermentation time from 18.5 to 13.3 h. The effects of pH, dusty activated carbon amount, and adsorption time on the pretreatment results were investigated using uniform design. The pH had a much lower impact and the optimal pretreatment conditions were achieved: pH 3.0, 0.5 g dusty activated carbon/150 g raw glycerol, adsorption time 3 h. Batch cultures on pretreated raw glycerol were comparable to those on pure glycerol. The 1,3-propanediol concentration in fed-batch cultivation was 49.3 g/L on pretreated raw glycerol while it was 40.8 g/L on untreated raw glycerol. The FTIR spectra of dusty activated carbon before and after adsorption indicated that the inhibiting impurities were probably aromatic compounds. This work indicates that pretreatment is necessary to ferment raw glycerol to 1,3-propanediol and that pretreatment with dusty activated carbon is an efficient, economical, and simple method.
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