Alcohol production process

摘要

Disclosed is a process for producing one or more desired products, the process comprising carrying out a first fermentation of a substrate comprising CO in a first bioreactor and a second fermentation of a carbohydrate - containing substrate in a second bioreactor, wherein each fermentation produces one or more desired products and/or one or more by-products that can be utilised in the other fermentation, and the process further comprising the steps of (a) introducing one or more products and/or by-products of the first fermentation that can be utilised by the second fermentation into the second 10 bioreactor during the fermentation, and (b) introducing one or more products and/or by-products of the second fermentation that can be utilised by the first fermentation into the first bioreactor during the fermentation.