Production of methyl ethyl ketone from biomass using a hybrid biochemical/catalytic approach
dc.citation.doi | doi:10.1021/ie3007598 | en_US |
dc.citation.epage | 60 | en_US |
dc.citation.issue | 1 | en_US |
dc.citation.jtitle | Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research | en_US |
dc.citation.spage | 56 | en_US |
dc.citation.volume | 52 | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Multer, Alisha | |
dc.contributor.author | McGraw, Nathan | |
dc.contributor.author | Hohn, Keith L. | |
dc.contributor.author | Vadlani, Praveen V. | |
dc.contributor.authoreid | hohn | en_US |
dc.contributor.authoreid | vadlani | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-06-14T16:33:04Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-06-14T16:33:04Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013-06-14 | |
dc.date.published | 2013 | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | The recent demand for sustainable routes to fuels and chemicals has led to an increased amount of research in conversion of natural resources. A potential approach for conversion of biomass to fuels and chemicals is to combine biochemical and chemical processes. This research used microbial fermentation to produce 2,3-butanediol, which was then converted to methyl ethyl ketone by dehydration over a solid acid catalyst. The fermentation process was performed using the bacteria Klebsiella oxytoca (K.O). 2,3-butanediol then dehydrated to form methyl ethyl ketone on a solid acid catalyst, the proton form of ZSM-5, and heat. The goal was to determine the reaction kinetics of 2,3-butanediol dehydration over ZSM-5, and to demonstrate the hybrid biochemical/thermochemical approach for synthesizing chemicals from biomass. It was found that ZSM-5 produced methyl ethyl ketone with high selectivity (greater than 90%), and could convert fermentative 2,3-butanediol to methyl ethyl ketone. The reaction order of 2,3-butanediol dehydration was found to be slightly large than one, and an activation energy of 32.3 kJ/mol was measured. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2097/15908 | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.relation.uri | http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/ie3007598 | en_US |
dc.rights | Permission to archive granted by the American Chemical Society, May 22, 2013. This document is the unedited author's version of a Submitted Work that was subsequently accepted for publication in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, copyright © American Chemical Society, after peer review. To access the final edited and published work see http://pubs.acs.org/articlesonrequest/AOR-YbjUIjmC2IW3kbXn4ijr | en_US |
dc.subject | Methyl ethyl ketone | en_US |
dc.subject | Biomass | en_US |
dc.subject | Microbial fermentation | en_US |
dc.subject | Sustainable fuel | en_US |
dc.title | Production of methyl ethyl ketone from biomass using a hybrid biochemical/catalytic approach | en_US |
dc.type | Article (author version) | en_US |