Abstract
Sustainable provision of chemicals and materials is undoubtedly a defining factor in guaranteeing economic, environmental, and social stability of future societies. Among the most sought-after chemical building blocks are volatile fatty acids (VFAs). VFAs such as acetic, propionic, and butyric acids have numerous industrial applications supporting from food and pharmaceuticals industries to wastewater treatment. The fact that VFAs can be produced synthetically from petrochemical derivatives and also through biological routes, for example, anaerobic digestion of organic mixed waste highlights their provision flexibility and sustainability. In this regard, this review presents a detailed overview of the applications associated with petrochemically and biologically generated VFAs, individually or in mixture, in industrial and laboratory scale, conventional and novel applications.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1249-1275 |
| Number of pages | 27 |
| Journal | Bioengineered |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Funding
The authors would like to express their gratitude to the Sweden’s innovation agency, Swedish Research Council and the University of Borås for their technical and financial support of this work.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| Vetenskapsrådet | |
| Högskolan i Borås |
Keywords
- Volatile fatty acids
- anaerobic digestion
- anaerobic digestion effluent
- application and production of VFAS
- individual and mixed VFAS
