Lanzatech New Zealand Limited

Lanzatech Nz, Inc.

Phuong Loan Tran

Sean Dennis Simpson

Richard Llewellyn Sydney Forster

Matthew Rowe

Christophe Collet

Ian Linstrand Warner

Matthew James Rowe

Bakir Al-Sinawi

Will David Barker

Jennifer Mon Yee Fung

Gary Chan

Kelly Marie Mahar

Wing Chuen Chan

Fungmin Liew

Christophe Daniel Mihalcea

Jason Carl Bromley

Bjorn Daniel Heijstra

Richard Llewellyn Forster

Jennifer Mon Fung

A biologically pure isolate of a selected bacterium derived fromis described which has improved efficiency in the production of ethanol by anaerobic fermentation of substrates comprising carbon monoxide. The bacterium can produce ethanol and acetate at an ethanol to acetate ratio of at least 1.0 and has a productivity of at least 1.2 g of ethanol/l of fermentation broth per day. The bacterium is also characterized in that it has substantially no ability to sporulate.

Bacteria and methods of use thereof

The invention relates to biological processes for producing one or more desired products, including alcohols such as ethanol and butanol. The processes comprise carrying out first and second fermentations of substrates in first and second bioreactors, wherein each fermentation produces one or more desired products and/or one or more by-products that can be utilized in the other fermentation. A product and/or by-product of the first fermentation is introduced to the second bioreactor during the fermentation, and a product and/or by-product of the second fermentation is introduced to the first bioreactor during the fermentation.

Alcohol production process

A novel class of bacteria is described which has improved efficiency in the production of thanol by anaerobic fermentation of substrates containing carbon monoxide.

The invention relates to the production of alcohols by microbial fermentation, particularly to production of alcohols by microbial fermentation of substrates comprising CO. It more particularly relates to processes for the production of alcohols from their corresponding acids in the presence of a substrate comprising CO. In particular embodiments, a fermentation reaction producing acid(s) and optionally alcohol(s) is perturbed such that at least a portion one or more of acid(s) is converted to alcohol.

Microbial alcohol production process

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