Abstract
Succinic acid is of high interest as bio-feedstock for the chemical industry. It is a precursor for a variety of many other chemicals, e.g. 1,4-butandiol, tetrahydrofuran, biodegradable polymers and fumaric acid. Besides optimized production strains and fermentation processes it is indispensable to develop cost-saving and energy-effective downstream processes to compete with the current petrochemical production process. Various methods such as precipitation, sorption and ion exchange, electrodialysis, and liquid-liquid extraction have been investigated for the recovery of succinic acid from fermentation broth and are reviewed critically here.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 331-339 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Biotechnology Letters |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Feb 2010 |
Keywords
- Electrodialysis
- Ion exchange
- Precipitation
- Reactive extraction
- Succinic acid