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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2012
Sean Dennis Simpson, Auckland, NZ;
Richard Llewellyn Sydney Forster, Auckland, NZ;
Phuong Loan Tran, Auckland, NZ;
Matthew James Rowe, Auckland, NZ;
Ian Linstrand Warner, Roselle, IL (US);
Sean Dennis Simpson, Auckland, NZ;
Richard Llewellyn Sydney Forster, Auckland, NZ;
Phuong Loan Tran, Auckland, NZ;
Matthew James Rowe, Auckland, NZ;
Ian Linstrand Warner, Roselle, IL (US);
Lanzatech New Zealand Limited, Auckland, NZ;
Abstract
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.