Carboxylic Acid Production 2.0
A special issue of Fermentation (ISSN 2311-5637). This special issue belongs to the section "Fermentation Process Design".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2022) | Viewed by 21175
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Interests: biorefineries; yeast; lignocellulose; fermentation technology
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Interests: lignocellulose; biorefinery processing; pretreatment; biodetoxification; cellulosic ethanol; cellulosic lactic acid; cellulosic amino acid
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to share with you that journal Fermentation has been indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) .
Three years have past since the first Special Issue on carboxylic acid production in Fermentation. These years have proven challenging for the development of large-scale production of platform chemicals from renewable raw materials. This was shown, for example, by the closing of BioAmber’s succinic acid production in Sarnia in 2018. The reasons behind the commerical difficulties are multifold and complex. However, efficient processes and a market that can absorb the product at a fair price are crucial. On the other hand, the recent boom in the biodegradable biopolymer industry has stimulated high expectations on the large commodity supply of carboxylic acid monomer, especially from various carbohydrate feedstock other than starch.
From a fundamental point of view, carboxylic acids have features making them highly attractive as bio-based platform chemicals. Such compounds are firmly rooted in the central metabolism, and their chemical reactivity make them interesting starting compounds for various types of polymers, including biodegradable polymers. We therefore maintain our belief in the future of carboxylic acid production.
In this Special Issue, we will continue to follow developments within this exciting field. We welcome submissions on the physiology of natural carboxylic acid producers, metabolic engineering for improving and expanding carboxylic acid production, and the isolation of novel producers. We also particularly encourage submissions dealing with downstream processing for the recovery of carboxylic acids as well as techno-economic evaluations of whole processes.
All production organisms—fungi, yeasts, and bacteria—are welcome.
Prof. Dr. Gunnar Lidén
Prof. Dr. Jie Bao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- carboxylic acid
- biodegradable polymers
- succinic acid
- lactic acid
- processing engineering
- fermenting microbes
- metabolic engineering
- synthetic pathway design
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