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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2015
Lanzatech New Zealand Limited, Skokie, IL (US);
Simon Richard Trevethick, Skokie, IL (US);
Jason Carl Bromley, Skokie, IL (US);
Guy William Waters, Skokie, IL (US);
Michael Koepke, Skokie, IL (US);
Loan Phuong Tran, Skokie, IL (US);
Rasmus Jensen Overgaard, Skokie, IL (US);
LANZATECH NEW ZEALAND LIMITED, Auckland, NZ;
Abstract
Multi-stage, biological processes and systems for converting a C1 carbon source to desired end products are described. The processes comprise dividing a gaseous C1-containing substrate, in parallel, among multiple bioreactor stages. Liquid products are successively fed, in series, from a first bioreactor stage to downstream bioreactor stages. Operation can be simplified by avoiding the requirement for microorganism separation and recycle at each stage. In addition, overall vapor-liquid mass transfer for the combined stages is very favorable, leading to high end product productivity with comparably low byproduct metabolite productivity.