Method of producing butanol using a mutant strain of Clostridium beijerinckii
AssigneeThe Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
InventorsHans Blaschek, Bassam Annous, Joseph Formanek, Chih-Kuang Chen
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method of producing high levels of butanol using a fermentation process that employs a mutant strain of Clostridium beijerinckii.
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A method of producing butanol, acetone and ethanol comprising the steps of anaerobically culturing a biologically pure culture of Clostridium beijerinckii BA101 ATCC No. PTA-1550 in a nutrient medium with assimilable carbohydrates and recovering the butanol, acetone and ethanol.
A method of producing butanol, acetone and ethanol comprising the steps of culturing a biologically pure culture of Clostridium beijerinckii BA101 in a nutrient medium with assimilable carbohydrates, fermenting the Clostridium beijerinckii BA101 ATCC No. PTA-1550 in the nutrient medium with the assimilable carbohydrates for sufficient period of time to allow for the production of butanol, acetone and ethanol and recovering the butanol, acetone and ethanol.
A biologically pure culture of Clostridium beijerinckii BA101 ATCC No. PTA 1550.
A method for producing butanol comprising the steps of anaerobically culturing a biologically pure culture of Clostridium beijerinckii BA101 ATCC No. PTA 1550 in a nutrient medium with assimilable carbohydrates and recovering the butanol.
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