Situation Analysis: Butanol Fermentation Analysis

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Situation Analysis: Butanol Fermentation

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The fermentation of butanol has not received

as much push as the fermentation of ethanol though, most likely

because of the poor yielded of butanol relative to ethanol: The

fermentation of biomass into butanol does not readily provide yields

close to ethanol. The specific yeast flavour however produce together

with the butanol, acetone, ethanol, and propanol. The reaction process

apparently initially yields acetic, lactic, butyric, and propionic

acids, undergoes an instability and then spontaneously reacts to form

the final mixture.

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