This process route is the base case and employed technology
similar to previous industrial processes for butanol production,
and consisted of batch fermentation followed by steam stripping
distillation. Three process designs were developed for this process
route, each using a different fermentation strain, which resulted in
different fermentation parameters, product concentrations, and
overall plant design.
Process Design 1.1 (A in Fig. 3) – Clostridium acetobutylicum
ATCC824. Both the batch fermentation and overall design of this
model was based on the base case process design simulated in
the study by Roffler et al. [24].