TY  - JOUR
A1  - Tippkötter, Nils
A1  - Roth, Jasmine
T1  - Purified Butanol from Lignocellulose – Solvent‐Impregnated Resins for an Integrated Selective Removal
JF  - Chemie Ingenieur Technik
N2  - In traditional microbial biobutanol production, the solvent must be recovered during fermentation process for a sufficient space-time yield. Thermal separation is not feasible due to the boiling point of n-butanol. As an integrated and selective solid-liquid separation alternative, solvent impregnated resins (SIRs) were applied. Two polymeric resins were evaluated and an extractant screening was conducted. Vacuum application with vapor collection in fixed-bed column as bioreactor bypass was successfully implemented as butanol desorption step. In course of further increasing process economics, fermentation with renewable lignocellulosic substrates was conducted using Clostridium acetobutylicum. Utilization of SIR was shown to be a potential strategy for solvent removal from fermentation broth, while application of a bypass column allows for product removal and recovery at once.
KW  - Biofuel
KW  - Biorefinery
KW  - Butanol
KW  - Clostridium acetobutylicum
KW  - Lignocellulose
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cite.202000200
SN  - 1522-2640
VL  - 92
IS  - 11
SP  - 1741
EP  - 1751
PB  - Wiley-VCH
CY  - Weinheim
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Capitain, Charlotte
A1  - Ross-Jones, Jesse
A1  - Möhring, Sophie
A1  - Tippkötter, Nils
T1  - Differential scanning calorimetry for quantification of polymer biodegradability in compost
JF  - International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation
N2  - The objective of this study is the establishment of a differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) based method for online analysis of the biodegradation of polymers in complex environments. Structural changes during biodegradation, such as an increase in brittleness or crystallinity, can be detected by carefully observing characteristic changes in DSC profiles. Until now, DSC profiles have not been used to draw quantitative conclusions about biodegradation. A new method is presented for quantifying the biodegradation using DSC data, whereby the results were validated using two reference methods.

The proposed method is applied to evaluate the biodegradation of three polymeric biomaterials: polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB), cellulose acetate (CA) and Organosolv lignin. The method is suitable for the precise quantification of the biodegradability of PHB. For CA and lignin, conclusions regarding their biodegradation can be drawn with lower resolutions. The proposed method is also able to quantify the biodegradation of blends or composite materials, which differentiates it from commonly used degradation detection methods.
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ibiod.2020.104914
SN  - 0964-8305
VL  - 149
SP  - In Press, Article number 104914
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -