{"id":108799,"date":"2022-05-04T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=108799"},"modified":"2022-05-03T08:39:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T06:39:01","slug":"hybrid-electro-biosystem-upcycles-carbon-dioxide-into-energy-rich-long-chain-compounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/hybrid-electro-biosystem-upcycles-carbon-dioxide-into-energy-rich-long-chain-compounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Hybrid Electro-biosystem Upcycles Carbon Dioxide into Energy-rich Long-chain Compounds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

However, compared with facilely available C1\/C2 products, efficient and sustainable synthesis of energy-rich long-chain compounds from CO2<\/sub>still remains a huge challenge.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A joint research team led by Prof. XIA Chuan from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Prof. YU Tao from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Prof. ZENG Jie from the University of Science and Technology of China, has developed a hybrid electro-biosystem, coupling spatially separate CO2<\/sub>\u00a0electrolysis with yeast fermentation, which efficiently converted CO2<\/sub>\u00a0to glucose.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The results were published in Nature Catalysis<\/em><\/a> on April 28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The proposed spatially decoupled electro-biosystem includes CO2<\/sub>electrolysis and yeast fermentation. It can convert CO2<\/sub> to glucose or fatty acids with both high titer and high yield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Acetic acid is not only the main component of vinegar, but also one of the excellent biosynthetic carbon sources. It can be transformed into other substances in life, such as glucose. Acetic acid can be obtained by direct electrolysis of CO2<\/sub>, but with ultra-low efficiency. We thus propose a two-step strategy to convert CO2\u00a0<\/sub>into acetic acid, with CO as the intermediate,” said Prof. ZENG.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Accordingly, the researchers first converted CO2<\/sub> into CO in a membrane electrode assembly using a Ni\u2013N\u2013C single-atom catalyst, and then developed a grain-boundary-rich Cu (GB_Cu) catalyst for acetate production from electrochemical CO reduction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GB_Cu exhibited a high acetate Faradaic efficiency up to 52% at -0.67 V versus a reversible hydrogen electrode in a typical three-electrode flow cell reactor using 1.0 M KOH aqueous electrolyte.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“However, the acetate produced by conventional electrocatalytic devices is always mixed with electrolyte salts which cannot be directly used for biological fermentation,” said Prof. XIA.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

To tackle this challenge, the researchers developed a porous solid electrolyte reactor equipment with thick anion exchange membranes for pure acetic acid solution separation and purification. It continuously and stably worked for 140 hours under a current density of -250 mA cm-2<\/sup>, which achieved an ultrapure acetic acid solution with a relative purity of ~97% wt.%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the following microbial fermentation, the researchers deleted all defined hexokinase genes (glk1<\/em>, hxk1<\/em>, hxk2<\/em>, YLR446W<\/em> and emi2<\/em>) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae<\/em> to enable microbe growth on pure acetic acid and the efficient release of glucose in vitro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The overexpression of heterologous glucose-1-phosphatase further improved the glucose titer. S. cerevisiae<\/em> was fed with titrated acetate from electrolysis, obtaining an average glucose titer of 1.81 \u00b1 0.14 g\u00b7L-1<\/sup>, equivalent to a high yield of 8.9 \u03bcmol per gram of yeast per hour. Similar results were observed in S. cerevisiae<\/em> fed pure acetic acid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, an engineered S. cerevisiae<\/em> for free fatty acids production was fed via titrating acetate from electrolysis, with a total free fatty acids (C8<\/sub>~C18<\/sub>) titer of 500 mg\u00b7L-1<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pure and concentrated acetic acid from electrochemical CO2<\/sub> reduction served as the carbon source for S. cerevisiae<\/em> fermentation. Such a platform for long-chain products is promising for large-scale practical use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This demonstration is a starting point for realizing light-reaction-free artificial synthesis of important organic products from CO2<\/sub>,” said Prof. YU.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Schematic diagram of in vitro carbon dioxide synthesis of high energy long chain food molecules. (Image by SIAT)
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Original publication<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Upcycling CO2 into energy-rich long-chain compounds via electrochemical and metabolic engineering<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

However, compared with facilely available C1\/C2 products, efficient and sustainable synthesis of energy-rich long-chain compounds from CO2still remains a huge challenge. A joint research team led by Prof. XIA Chuan from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Prof. YU Tao from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"Artificial upcycling of carbon dioxide (CO2) into value-added products in a sustainable manner represents an opportunity to tackle environmental issues and realize a circular economy","footnotes":""},"categories":[5571],"tags":[5838,16171,15515,10743,13821],"supplier":[20305,16707,14659],"class_list":["post-108799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-co2-based","tag-bioeconomy","tag-fermentation","tag-upcycling","tag-useco2","tag-yeast","supplier-nature-catalysis-journal","supplier-shenzhen-institute-of-advanced-sciences-siat","supplier-university-of-science-and-technology-of-china-ustc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108799"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=108799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}