Question

Biorefinery is not an example of fermentation.

(a) True

(b) False

The question was asked during an interview for a job.

I want to ask this question from The Range of Fermentation Processes topic in portion Introduction to Fermentation Processes & Media for Industrial Fermentation of Bioprocess Engineering

Answer 1

The correct option is (b) False

The best I can explain: An important motivation for fermentation processes is that they may become a key component in a biobased economy. Major focus is on using sustainable raw materials for the fermentation processes are to develop processes using plant cell wall material from the agricultural and forestry sectors including waste and side streams. Using these streams, leads to a number of challenges with respect to its complex composition, in particular inhibitory compounds present in the streams. Work on understanding and improving robustness of yeast strains to make them more suited to ferment efficiently in plant cell wall material derived streams is being done.