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Production and separation of fermentation-derived acetic acid

  • Seth W. Snyder

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Abstract

Acetic acid is a large volume chemical product. Currently, 80% of the US production of virgin acetic acid is produced by methanol carbonylation. Production costs are strongly tied to natural gas. Therefore, there are strong market, economic, and energy benefits to developing processes for production of acetic acid from alternative feedstocks. Strains for fermenting synthesis gas to acetate and several membrane-based separations technologies for recovery of the acid were studied. This is an abstract of a paper presented at the AIChE Spring National Meeting (Houston, TX 4/22-27/2007).

Original languageEnglish
StatePublished - 2007
Externally publishedYes
Event2007 AIChE Spring National Meeting - Houston, TX, United States
Duration: Apr 22 2007Apr 27 2007

Conference

Conference2007 AIChE Spring National Meeting
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityHouston, TX
Period04/22/0704/27/07

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