Techno-Economic Analysis of Extractive Butanol Fermentation by Immobilized Cells with Large Extractant Volume

Rizki Fitria Darmayanti; Maktum Muharja; Tao Zhao; Ming Gao; Yukihiro Tashiro; Kenji Sakai; Kenji Sonomoto

doi:10.33795/jtkl.v6i2.337

Authors

Rizki Fitria Darmayanti Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Jember, Jl. Kalimantan 37 Jember 68121, Indonesia
Maktum Muharja Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Jember, Jl. Kalimantan 37 Jember 68121, Indonesia
Tao Zhao Energy-rich Compounds Production by Photosynthetic Carbon Fixation Research Center, College of Life Science, Qingdao Agricultural University, Chengyang District, Qingdao 266109, China
Ming Gao 3Department of Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
Yukihiro Tashiro Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, Graduate School, Kyushu University, 744, Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
Kenji Sakai Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, Graduate School, Kyushu University, 744, Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
Kenji Sonomoto Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, Graduate School, Kyushu University, 744, Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33795/jtkl.v6i2.337

Keywords:

ABE, Fermentation, Immobilized cell, Sugar, Techno-economic.

Abstract

There are several challenges for ABE fermentation to be used in an industrial scale including the low of butanol yield, the high energy requirement for separation and purification, and the competeness of sugar with food demand as substrat. In this study, techno-economical aspects of ABE fermentation by using immobilized cells with large extractant volume were studied. Overall production process was designed using rice straw as raw material which is semi-hydrolyzed to produce cellobiose, glucose, xylose, and arabinose mixture. Concentrated sugar was then fed to extractive fed-batch fermentation using immobilized cells. Finally, extractant was recovered and products were purified by distillation column. By evaluating this process design for the small scale capacity of 238 kg-butanol and acetone/day, the energy requirement was 41.3 MJ/kg-butanol and acetone and the cost was 1.91 $/kg-butanol and acetone. Although the cost was higher than butanol produced by petrochemical process of 1.08 $/kg-butanol, it may reduce if the scale is increased.

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