Value-Added Co-products from Industrial Fermentation
A special issue of Fermentation (ISSN 2311-5637). This special issue belongs to the section "Industrial Fermentation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 June 2022) | Viewed by 15767
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Interests: industrial fermentation; industrial microbiology; biofuels; beverage alcohols; distilled spirits; beer; life cycle assessment; efficiencies; technoeconomic analysis
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Dear Colleagues,
Throughout human history, carbohydrates have been fermented into alcohols for human consumption, especially for beer, wine, whiskey, and other alcoholic beverages. In recent years, we have also witnessed tremendous growth in the research, development, and commercialization of many biorenewable resources. Starches, lipids, proteins, and fibers can now be utilized to produce a variety of bio-based energy sources, fuels, products, chemicals, and other renewable materials. Many countries have experienced exponential growth in biofuels production, such as maize- and sugarcane-based ethanol as well as soy, canola, palm, and other oilseed-based biodiesels. Biochemicals such as succinic acid, muconic acid, and triacetic acid lactone; bioplastics such as polylactic acid; glycerol-based bioadhesives; and other bio-based products are increasingly being commercialized as well. Although the science, engineering, and technology of conversion and utilization are progressing, there is a critical need for more detailed studies on fermentation processes, the conditions used, and impacts on final products.
This Special Issue is particularly interested in papers that examine the processing and utilization of value-added coproducts from alcohol fermentation byproducts/non-fermentables, as well as waste valorization options. Some of these topics may include distillers’ grains, brewers’ grains, draff, stillage, pot ale syrup, spent lees, malt culms, etc. Topics could encompass science, engineering, marketing/merchandising, animal nutrition, processing technologies, and governmental regulations.
More than 40 million metric tonnes of fermentation coproducts are manufactured each year in the U.S. alone, and this will continue to increase as industrial fermentations continue to expand.
Prof. Dr. Kurt A. Rosentrater
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- animal feed
- beer
- biochemicals
- bioenergy
- biofuels
- bioproducts
- biorenewables
- brewers’ grains
- condensed distillers’ solubles (CDS)
- distillers’ grains
- draff
- corn distillers’ dried grain with solubles (DDGS)
- coproducts
- fermentation
- fiber
- lipids
- livestock
- non-fermentables
- pot ale syrup
- protein
- spent lees
- stillage
- syrup
- value-added uses
- whiskey/whisky
- wine
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