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Title: Stepping on the Gas to a Circular Economy: Accelerating Development of Carbon-Negative Chemical Production from Gas Fermentation

Abstract

Owing to rising levels of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere and oceans, climate change poses significant environmental, economic, and social challenges globally. Technologies that enable carbon capture and conversion of greenhouse gases into useful products will help mitigate climate change by enabling a new circular carbon economy. Gas fermentation usingcarbon-fixing microorganisms offers an economically viable and scalable solution with unique feedstock and product flexibility that has been commercialized recently. We review the state of the art of gas fermentation and discuss opportunities to accelerate future development and rollout. We discuss the current commercial process for conversion of waste gases to ethanol, including the underlying biology, challenges in process scale-up, and progress on genetic tool development and metabolic engineering to expand the product spectrum. We emphasize key enabling technologies to accelerate strain development for acetogens and other nonmodel organisms.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [2];  [2];  [2];  [2];  [2];  [1];  [1];  [2];  [3];  [3];  [3];  [1];  [1];  [2];  [1]
  1. LanzaTech Inc., Skokie, IL (United States)
  2. Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
  3. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER); USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
OSTI Identifier:
1807218
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 2298995; OSTI ID: 2301599
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725; SC0018249; EE0008343; EE0008354
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 12; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 1947-5438
Publisher:
Annual Reviews
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; gas fermentation; syngas; acetogen; clostridium; cell-free; CRISPR

Citation Formats

Fackler, Nick, Heijstra, Björn D., Rasor, Blake J., Brown, Hunter, Martin, Jacob, Ni, Zhuofu, Shebek, Kevin M., Rosin, Rick R., Simpson, Séan D., Tyo, Keith E., Giannone, Richard J., Hettich, Robert L., Tschaplinski, Timothy J., Leang, Ching, Brown, Steven D., Jewett, Michael C., and Köpke, Michael. Stepping on the Gas to a Circular Economy: Accelerating Development of Carbon-Negative Chemical Production from Gas Fermentation. United States: N. p., 2021. Web. doi:10.1146/annurev-chembioeng-120120-021122.
Fackler, Nick, Heijstra, Björn D., Rasor, Blake J., Brown, Hunter, Martin, Jacob, Ni, Zhuofu, Shebek, Kevin M., Rosin, Rick R., Simpson, Séan D., Tyo, Keith E., Giannone, Richard J., Hettich, Robert L., Tschaplinski, Timothy J., Leang, Ching, Brown, Steven D., Jewett, Michael C., & Köpke, Michael. Stepping on the Gas to a Circular Economy: Accelerating Development of Carbon-Negative Chemical Production from Gas Fermentation. United States. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-chembioeng-120120-021122
Fackler, Nick, Heijstra, Björn D., Rasor, Blake J., Brown, Hunter, Martin, Jacob, Ni, Zhuofu, Shebek, Kevin M., Rosin, Rick R., Simpson, Séan D., Tyo, Keith E., Giannone, Richard J., Hettich, Robert L., Tschaplinski, Timothy J., Leang, Ching, Brown, Steven D., Jewett, Michael C., and Köpke, Michael. Mon . "Stepping on the Gas to a Circular Economy: Accelerating Development of Carbon-Negative Chemical Production from Gas Fermentation". United States. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-chembioeng-120120-021122. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1807218.
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title = {Stepping on the Gas to a Circular Economy: Accelerating Development of Carbon-Negative Chemical Production from Gas Fermentation},
author = {Fackler, Nick and Heijstra, Björn D. and Rasor, Blake J. and Brown, Hunter and Martin, Jacob and Ni, Zhuofu and Shebek, Kevin M. and Rosin, Rick R. and Simpson, Séan D. and Tyo, Keith E. and Giannone, Richard J. and Hettich, Robert L. and Tschaplinski, Timothy J. and Leang, Ching and Brown, Steven D. and Jewett, Michael C. and Köpke, Michael},
abstractNote = {Owing to rising levels of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere and oceans, climate change poses significant environmental, economic, and social challenges globally. Technologies that enable carbon capture and conversion of greenhouse gases into useful products will help mitigate climate change by enabling a new circular carbon economy. Gas fermentation usingcarbon-fixing microorganisms offers an economically viable and scalable solution with unique feedstock and product flexibility that has been commercialized recently. We review the state of the art of gas fermentation and discuss opportunities to accelerate future development and rollout. We discuss the current commercial process for conversion of waste gases to ethanol, including the underlying biology, challenges in process scale-up, and progress on genetic tool development and metabolic engineering to expand the product spectrum. We emphasize key enabling technologies to accelerate strain development for acetogens and other nonmodel organisms.},
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