Biodiesel biorefinery: opportunities and challenges for microbial production of fuels and chemicals from glycerol waste

<p>Abstract</p> <p>The considerable increase in biodiesel production worldwide in the last 5 years resulted in a stoichiometric increased coproduction of crude glycerol. As an excess of crude glycerol has been produced, its value on market was reduced and it is becoming a “waste-st...

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Main Authors: Almeida João R M, Fávaro Léia C L, Quirino Betania F
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2012-07-01
Series:Biotechnology for Biofuels
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Online Access:http://www.biotechnologyforbiofuels.com/content/5/1/48