TY - JOUR
T1 - A Glimpse of the World of Volatile Fatty Acids Production and Application
T2 - A review
AU - Agnihotri, Swarnima
AU - Yin, Dong Min
AU - Mahboubi, Amir
AU - Sapmaz, Tugba
AU - Varjani, Sunita
AU - Qiao, Wei
AU - Koseoglu-Imer, Derya Y.
AU - Taherzadeh, Mohammad J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Volatile fatty acids
KW - anaerobic digestion
KW - anaerobic digestion effluent
KW - application and production of VFAS
KW - individual and mixed VFAS
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U2 - 10.1080/21655979.2021.1996044
DO - 10.1080/21655979.2021.1996044
M3 - Review article
C2 - 34738864
AN - SCOPUS:85122471478
SN - 2165-5979
VL - 13
SP - 1249
EP - 1275
JO - Bioengineered
JF - Bioengineered
IS - 1
ER -
