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Title:
PRODUCTION OF ACETIC ACID
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JPH0488990
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

PURPOSE: To industrially advantageously obtain acetic acid without using expensive hydrogen by adding an anaerobic acid-producing bacterium to methanol and carbon dioxide, etc., and subjecting methanol, etc., to anaerobic fermentation.

CONSTITUTION: For example, a culture medium necessary for growth of bacterium is added to a raw material consisting of methanol and carbon dioxide or water soluble carbonate and inoculated with an anaerobic acid-producing bacterium (e.g. bacterium of the genus Clostridium or bacterium of the genus Acetobacterium) and the bacterium is anaerobically cultured and the raw material is fermented to provide the aimed acetic acid.


Inventors:
TANIMOTO YUICHI
OKAMURA KAZUO
MINAMI SEIJI
Application Number:
JP20296590A
Publication Date:
March 23, 1992
Filing Date:
July 31, 1990
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Assignee:
SHIMIZU CONSTRUCTION CO LTD
International Classes:
C12P7/54; C12J1/04; C12R1/01; C12R1/145; (IPC1-7): C12J1/04; C12P7/54
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Yukio Murata (1 outside)



 
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