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Metabolic Modeling Of Gas Fermentation For Renewable Fuel And Chemical Production, Xiangan Li

Doctoral Dissertations

Gas fermentation has emerged as a technologically and economically attractive option for producing renewable fuels and chemicals from carbon monoxide (CO) rich waste streams. As compared to traditional catalyst technologies, microbial systems have several advantages including operation near ambient temperature and pressure, high conversion efficiencies, robustness to gas impurities and high product yields that have motivated both fundamental research and commercial development. While microbial production of high-value products from waste gases is challenging because wild-type strains capable of gas consumption tend to synthesize these products at low yields, strategy like metabolically engineering the gas fermenting acetogens have been studied to …