Bioprocess Development for High-Purity Succinic Acid Production from Oil Palm Empty Fruit Bunch

Upcycling waste apples into platform chemicals: pilot-scale production of lactic and succinic acids

The conversion of renewable biological resources into value-added products is essential for supporting the transition to a sustainable bioeconomy. This study explores the use of waste apples—a by-product generated in large quantities along the fresh apple supply chain—as feedstock for the production of two industrially...

Fermentative valorisation of agri-food residues: optimisation of Lactiplantibacillus paraplantarum fermentation conditions for the production of platform organic acids

Introduction Organic acid fermentation is a key route for integrating second-generation (2G) biomass into biorefineries and promoting industrial symbiosis between agri-food residues and platform-chemical production. However, plant matrices such as tomato pomace (TP) and spent coffee grounds (SCG) show limited carbon ac...

Enhanced Lactic Acid Production From Soybean Waste Using a Xylose-Fermenting Lactiplantibacillus pentosus Strain.

BACKGROUND The high carbohydrate content of the cellulose and hemicellulose fractions in agricultural crops, along with their by-products and derivative residues (e.g., soybean straw, hulls, sugarcane bagasse, and corn stover), offers a promising resource for biorefinery industries. These lignocellulosic materials, gen...

Biocatalytic upgrading of fusel oil from bioethanol production to levulinate esters as renewable fuel oxygenates

The transition toward a sustainable bioeconomy requires efficient strategies for converting renewable biomass and industrial side streams into value-added chemicals and fuels. Fusel oil is an important coproduct of bioethanol fermentation and levulinic acid (LA), a key platform molecule derived from lignocellulosic bio...

Fermentative Production of Poly(β-L-malic Acid) from Renewable Feedstocks: Process Advances and Bamboo Shoot Shell Hydrolysate as an Emerging Case Study

Poly(β-L-malic acid) (PMLA) is a water-soluble, biodegradable aliphatic polyester whose pendant carboxyl groups support chemical functionalization for biomedical, packaging, and materials applications. Microbial fermentation can use pure sugars and biomass-derived carbon sources under mild conditions, but industrial tr...

Sustainable bioethanol production from water hyacinth: structural validation and fuel blend emission studies