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Microbial Production of Value-Added Chemicals from Pyrolysis Oil and Syngas

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Despite the inevitable depletion of fossil resources and the looming threat of climate change, crude oil and natural gas are still the number one sources for energy supply and raw material for chemical industry. Till date, 95 % of primary building blocks in chemical industry originate from fossil resources. To address the resulting challenges and the shortcomings, a biobased economy has to be established, and sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives have to be found immediately. The production of fine chemicals and building blocks by microbial fermentation from lignocellulosic biomass can be such an alternative; however, to become a suitable source for fermentation processes, biomass has to be pretreated. In this chapter the conversion of biomass to pyrolysis oil by fast pyrolysis and the further gasification to syngas by the bioliq® process is introduced as a possible cost-saving and energy neutral pretreatment. Furthermore, the suitability of biomass-derived pyrolysis oil and syngas as sources for the microbial production of value-added chemicals are discussed, and potential and existing processes and products are introduced.

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