Assessment of in situ butanol recovery b
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Adriano Pinto Mariano; Nasib Qureshi; Rubens Maciel Filho; Thaddeus Chukwuemeka
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Article
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2011
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Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
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English
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## Abstract **BACKGROUND:** Butanol fermentation is product limiting owing to butanol toxicity to microbial cells. Butanol (boiling point: 118 °C) boils at a higher temperature than water (boiling point: 100 °C) and application of vacuum technology to integrated acetone–butanol–ethanol (ABE) fermen