TRYing to evaluate production costs in microbial biotechnology
Review article, 2024

Microbial fermentations offer the opportunity to produce a wide range of chemicals in a sustainable fashion, but it is important to carefully evaluate the production costs. This can be done on the basis of evaluation of the titer, rate, and yield (TRY) of the fermentation process. Here we describe how the three TRY metrics impact the technoeconomics of a microbial fermentation process, and we illustrate the use of these for evaluation of different processes in the production of two commodity chemicals, 1,3-propanediol (PDO) and ethanol, as well as for the fine chemical penicillin. On the basis of our discussions, we provide some recommendations on how the TRY metrics should be reported when new processes are described.

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Author

Oliver Konzock

Chalmers, Life Sciences, Systems and Synthetic Biology

Jens B Nielsen

BioInnovation Institute

Chalmers, Life Sciences, Systems and Synthetic Biology

Trends in Biotechnology

0167-7799 (ISSN) 18793096 (eISSN)

Vol. In Press

Subject Categories

Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics

DOI

10.1016/j.tibtech.2024.04.007

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6/12/2024