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Table 3 Carbon recovery of fermentation products for engineered strains grown on crude glycerol

From: Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for production of n-butanol from crude glycerol

Strain

Succinate

Ethanol

Lactate

Acetate

Butyrate

Butanol

Total (%)

BuT-8

5.0

9.9

2.3

4.6

10.4

27.3

59.5

BuT-16

0.8

4.2

0.6

2.2

4.5

57.7

70.0

  1. Carbon recovery was calculated as the molar percent of carbon in products per carbon in consumed glycerol. The data for strain BuT-8 were taken at 72 h of fermentation
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Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts

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