Case Study 2 – Acetone, Butanol, and Ethanol Recovery Process The technology to produce acetone, butanol, and ethanol from a sugar source via fermentation has existed for more than one hundred years. However, the cost of product recovery has been prohibitive to commercialization due to high energy consumption. To address the energy efficiency issue, novel product recovery technologies, like hybrid extraction/distillation, have been proposed b

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