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Rewiring Extremophilic Electrocatalytic Processes for Production of Biofuels and Value-Added Compounds from Lignocellulosic Biomass

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Extremophilic Microbial Processing of Lignocellulosic Feedstocks to Biofuels, Value-Added Products, and Usable Power

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This chapter will introduce the basic concepts of bioelectrocatalysis and the advantages of extremophiles for bioelectrochemical systems. The chapter will discuss electrogenic activity and electron transfer characteristics of extremophiles and their applications in microbial fuel cells, microbial electrolytic cells, microbial desalination cells, and microbial electrosynthesis. The use of extremophilic bioprocesses for production of bioenergy and value-added products from lignocellulosic biomass will also be discussed.

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Financial support provided by the National Science Foundation in the form of BuG ReMeDEE initiative (Award # 1736255) is gratefully acknowledged. The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided by NASA EPSCoR (Award # 1736255). The authors also gratefully acknowledge Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology for the support. Funding from the Governor’s Office of Economic Development, South Dakota (number) is greatly appreciated.

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    Navanietha Krishnaraj Rathinam & Rajesh K. Sani

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    Navanietha Krishnaraj Rathinam & Rajesh K. Sani

  3. Composite and Nanocomposite Advanced Manufacturing-Biomaterials Center (CNAM-Bio Center), Rapid City, SD, USA

    Navanietha Krishnaraj Rathinam, Rajesh K. Sani & David Salem

  4. Chemistry and Applied Biological Sciences, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota, USA

    Rajesh K. Sani

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Rathinam, N.K., Sani, R.K., Salem, D. (2018). Rewiring Extremophilic Electrocatalytic Processes for Production of Biofuels and Value-Added Compounds from Lignocellulosic Biomass. In: Sani, R., Krishnaraj Rathinam, N. (eds) Extremophilic Microbial Processing of Lignocellulosic Feedstocks to Biofuels, Value-Added Products, and Usable Power. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74459-9_12

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