Current status and future prospects of biological routes to bio-based products using raw materials, wastes, and residues as renewable resources
- 9 February 2021
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology
- Vol. 52 (14), 2453-2509
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10643389.2021.1880259
Abstract
Current fossil-based commercial products pose a serious threat to global reserves of natural resources and the preservation of the natural environment. During recent decades, great efforts have been made to increase the availability of non-utilizable biomass as alternative feedstocks and reduce environmental pollution to achieve a more sustainable bioeconomy. Several bio-sectors have emerged for the production of bio-based products to replace fossil-based equivalents through bioprocesses using biomass feedstocks. Indeed, advanced microbial fermentation technologies encompassing metabolic engineering and genome-based systems biology approaches have enabled the design and development of new bio-based refineries using engineered platform cells. Herein, we focus on recent progress in the area of microbial fermentation-aided bioprocesses for the production of bio-based products derived from naturally occurring biomasses as feedstocks. Furthermore, we discuss the application of bio-based products and remaining technical barriers and assess possible biorefineries. Graphical AbstractKeywords
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