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Renewable biobutanol production is receiving more attention toward substituting fossil-based nonrenewable fuels. Biobutanol is recognized as the top most biofuel with extraordinary properties as compared with gasoline. The demand for biobutanol production is increasing enormously due to application in various industries as chemical substituent. Biobutanol production technology has attracted many researchers toward implementation of replacing cost-effective substrate and easy method to recover from the fermentation broth. Sugarcane bagasse, algal biomass, crude glycerol, and lignocellulosic biomass are potential cost-effective substrates which could replace consistent glucose-based substrates. The advantages and limitations of these substrates have been discussed in this chapter. Moreover, finding the integrated biobutanol recovery methods is an important factor parameter in production of biobutanol. This chapter also concentrated on possibilities and drawbacks of obtainable integrated biobutanol recovery methods. Thus, successful process involving cost-effective substrate and biobutanol recovery methods could help to implementation of biobutanol production industry. Overall, this chapter has endeavored to increase the viability of industrial production of biobutanol.
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Iyyappan, J., Bharathiraja, B., Vaishnavi, A., Prathiba, S. (2021). Overview of Current Developments in Biobutanol Production Methods and Future Perspectives. In: Basu, C. (eds) Biofuels and Biodiesel. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2290. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1323-8_1
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