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Vito Nv (vlaamse Instelling Voor Technologisch Onderzoek Nv)

Vlaamse Instelling Voor Technologisch Onderzoek N.v. (vito)

Vlaamse Instelling Voor Technologisch Onderzoek

Lambertus Bouwman

Sankara Sri Venkata Ramakumar

Suresh Kumar Puri

Manoj Kumar

Karolien Vanbroekhoven

Deepak Pant

Helene De Wever

Srikanth Sandipam

Yolanda Alvarez Gallego

Wouter Van Hecke

Ludovicus Diels

Metin Bulut

Diana Van Houtven

The present invention relates to a carbon based electrode with a large geometrical surface area comprising a frame of an electrically conductive material with several cut-outs with a surface area, which cut-outs are separated from each other by portions of the conductive material, wherein carbon based sub-electrodes dimensioned so as to a least cover the surface area of the cut-outs are positioned in the cut-outs and conductively connected to at least part of each of the portions of the conductive material adjacent to the carbon based sub-electrodes.

Carbon based electrode with large geometric dimensions

The present invention discloses a membrane-less reactor design for microbial electrosynthesis of alcohols from carbon dioxide (CO). The membrane-less reactor design thus facilitates higher and efficient COtransformation to alcohols via single pot microbial electrosynthesis. The reactor design operates efficiently avoiding oxygen contact at working electrode without using membrane, in turn there is an increase in COsolubility and its bioavailability for subsequent COconversion to alcohols at faster rate. The present invention further provides a process of operation of the reactor for biotransformation of the carbon dioxide.

Membrane-less reactor design and process for biotransformation of carbon dioxide

A method for producing products, advantageously solvents, is by fermentation, advantageously multi-stage fermentation. The fermentation is complemented with pervaporation as in situ product recovery technology, combined with a multistage condensation of the permeate. The condensates are separately introduced in the downstream processing to recover the produced products, advantageously solvents. The method for producing products, advantageously solvents, by fermentation is simplified and has an overall improved energy efficiency. A related system uses method for producing products, advantageously solvents, is by fermentation.

Method and system for producing products by fermentation

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