Abstract:
Sweet sorghum stalk juice was used as raw material for producing acetone and butanol by fermentation. Bacillus acetobutylicum Bd3 was selected from five different acetone-butanol producing strains, as experimental bacterium which produced more butanol than the four others. And the conditions of acetone-butanol fermentation by Bd3 were optimized: sweet sorghum stalk juice10oBrix, corn-steep 5 g/L, inoculation 6%(V/V), (NH4)2SO4 5 g/L, KH2PO4 0.4 g/L, CaCO3 6 g/L, temperture 32℃, pH6.8, the output of butanol achieved 10.29 g/L.