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Fuel ethanol can be produced from softwood through hydrolysis in an enzymatic process. Prior to enzymatic hydrolysis of the
softwood, pretreatment is necessary. In this study, two-step steam pretreatment employing dilute H 2SO 4 impregnation in the first step and SO 2 impregnation in the second step, to improve the overall sugar and ethanol yield, was investigated. The first pretreatment
step was performed under conditions of low severity (180°C, 10 min, 0.5% H 2SO 4) to optimize the amount of hydrolyzed hemicellulose. In the second step, the washed solid material from the first pretreatment
step was impregnated with SO 2 and pretreated under conditions of higher severity to make the cellulose more accessible to enzymatic attack, as well as
to hydrolyze a portion of the cellulose. A wide range of conditions was used in the second step to determine the most favorable
combination. The temperatures investigated were between 190 and 230°C, the residence times were 2, 5, and 10 min; and the
SO 2 concentration was 3%. The effect of pretreatment was assessed by both enzymatic hydrolysis of the solids and by simultaneous
saccharification and fermentation (SSF) of the whole slurry, after the second pretreatment step. For each set of pretreatment
conditions, the liquid fraction was also fermented to determine any inhibitory effects. Ethanol yield using the SSF configuration
reached 66% of the theoretical value for pretreatment conditions in the second step of 210°C and 5 min. The sugar yield using
the separate hydrolysis and fermentation configuration reached 71% for pretreatment conditions of 220°C and 5 min. 相似文献
2.
Whole treechips obtained from softwood forest thinnings were pretreated via single-and two-stage dilute-sulfuric acid pretreatment.
Whole-tree chips were impregnated with dilute sulfuric acid and steam treated in a 4-L steam explosion reactor. In single-stage
pretreatment, wood chips were treated using a wide range of severity. In two-stage pretreatment, the first stage was carried
out at low severity tomaximize hemicellulose recovery. Solubilized sugars were recovered from the first-stage prehydrolysate
by washing with water. In the second stage, water-insoluble solids from first-stage prehydrolysate were impregnated with dilute
sulfuric acid, then steam treated at more severe conditions to hydrolyze a portion of the remaining cellulose to glucose and
to improve the enzyme digestibility. The total sugar yields obtained after enzymatic hydrolysis of two-stage dilute acid-pretreated
samples were compared with sugar yields from single-stage pretreatment. The overall sugar yield from two-stage dilute-acid
pretreatment was approx 10% higher, and the net enzyme requirement was reduced by about 50%. Simultaneous saccharification
and fermentation using an adapted Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast strain further improved cellulose conversion yield and lowered the enzyme requirement. 相似文献
3.
Barley is an abundant crop in Europe, which makes its straw residues an interesting cellulose source for ethanol production.
Steam pretreatment of the straw followed by enzymatic hydrolysis converts the cellulose to fermentable sugars. Prior to pretreatment
the material is impregnated with a catalyst, for example, H 2SO 4, to enhance enzymatic digestibility of the pretreated straw. Different impregnation techniques can be applied. In this study,
soaking and spraying were investigated and compared at the same pretreatment condition in terms of overall yield of glucose
and xylose. The overall yield includes the soluble sugars in the liquid from pretreatment, including soluble oligomers, and
monomer sugars obtained in the enzymatic hydrolysis. The yields obtained differed for the impregnation techniques. Acid-soaked
barley straw gave the highest overall yield of glucose, regardless of impregnation time (10 or 30 min) or acid concentration
(0.2 or 1.0 wt%). For xylose, soaking gave the highest overall yield at 0.2 wt% H 2SO 4. An increase in acid concentration resulted in a decrease in xylose yield for both acid-soaked and acid-sprayed barley straw.
Optimization of the pretreatment conditions for acid-sprayed barley straw was performed to obtain yields using spraying that
were as high as those with soaking. For acid-sprayed barley straw the optimum pretreatment condition for glucose, 1.0 wt%
H 2SO 4 and 220°C for 5 min, gave an overall glucose yield of 92% of theoretical based on the composition of the raw material. Pretreatment
with 0.2wt% H 2SO 4 at 190°C for 5 min resulted in the highest overall xylose yield, 67% of theoretical based on the composition of the raw material. 相似文献
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Pretreatment has been recognized as a key step in enzyme-based conversion processes of lignocellulose biomass to ethanol. The aim of this study is to evaluate two hydrothermal pretreatments (steam explosion and liquid hot water) to enhance ethanol production from poplar ( Populus nigra) biomass by a simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (SSF) process. The composition of liquid and solid fractions obtained after pretreatment, enzymatic digestibility, and ethanol production of poplar biomass pretreated at different experimental conditions was analyzed. The best results were obtained in steam explosion pretreatment at 210°C and 4 min, taking into account cellulose recovery above 95%, enzymatic hydrolysis yield of about 60%, SSF yield of 60% of theoretical, and 41% xylose recovery in the liquid fraction. Large particles can be used for poplar biomass in both pretreatments, since no significant effect of particle size on enzymatic hydrolysis and SSF was obtained. 相似文献
5.
The pretreatment of softwood with sulfuric acid impregnation in the production of ethanol, based on enzymatic hydrolysis,
has been investigated. The parameters investigated were: H 2SO 4 concentration (0.5 – 4.4% w/w liquid), temperature (180 – 240°C), and residence time (1-20 minutes). The combined severity
(log Ro-pH) was used to combine the parameters into a single reaction ordinate. The highest yields of fermentable sugars,
i.e., glucose and mannose, were obtained at a combined severity of 3. At this severity, however, the fermentability declined
and the ethanol yield decreased. In a comparison with previous results, SO 2 impregnation was found to be preferable, since it resulted in approximately the same sugar yields, but better fermentability. 相似文献
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Douglas-fir sapwood and heartwood were impregnated with SO2 and steam exploded at three severity levels, and the cellulose-rich, water-insoluble component was enzymatically hydrolyzed. The high-severity conditions resulted in near complete solubilization and some degradation of hemicelluloses and a significant improvement in the efficiency of enzymatic digestibility of the cell ulose component. At lower severity, some of the hemicellulose remained un hydrolyzed, and the cellulose present in the pretreated solids was not readily hydrolyzed. The medium-severity pretreatment conditions proved to be a good compromise because they improved the enzymatic hydrolyzability of the solids and resulted in the recovery of the majority of hemicellulose in a monomeric form within the water-soluble stream. Sapwood-derived wood chips exhibited a higher susceptibility to both pretreatment and hydrolysis and, on steam explosion, formed smaller particles as compared to heartwood-derived wood chips. 相似文献
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The study investigated the production of bioethanol from softwood, in particular pine wood chip. The steam explosion pretreatment was largely investigated, evaluating also the potential use of a double-step process to increase ethanol production through the use of both solid and liquid fraction after the pretreatment. The pretreatment tests were carried out at different conditions, determining the composition of solid and liquid fraction and steam explosion efficiency. The enzymatic hydrolysis was carried out with Ctec2 enzyme while the fermentation was carried out using Saccharomyces Cerevisiae yeast “red ethanol”. It was found that the best experimental result was obtained for a single-step pretreated sample (10.6 g of ethanol/100 g of initial biomass dry basis) for a 4.53 severity. The best double-step overall performance was equal to 8.89 g ethanol/100 g of initial biomass dry basis for a 4.27 severity. The enzymatic hydrolysis strongly depended on the severity of the pretreatment while the fermentation efficiency was mainly influenced by the concentration of the inhibitors. The ethanol enhancing potential of a double-step steam explosion could slightly increase the ethanol production compared to single-step potential. 相似文献
8.
A batch reactor was employed to steam explode corn fiber at various degrees of severity to evaluate the potential of using
this feedstock as part of an enzymatically mediated cellulose-to-ethanol process. Severity was controlled by altering temperature
(150–230°C), residence time (1–9 min), and SO 2 concentration (0–6% [w/w] dry matter). The effects of varying the different parameters were assessed by response surface
modeling. The results indicated that maximum sugar yields (hemicellulose-derived water soluble, and cellulose-derived following
enzymatic hydrolysis) were recovered from corn fiber pretreated at 190°C for 5 minutes after exposure to 3% SO 2. Sequential SO 2-catalyzed steam explosion and enzymatic hydrolysis resulted in a conversion efficiency of 81% of the combined original hemicellulose
and cellulose in the corn fiber to monomeric sugars. An additional posthydrolysis step performed on water soluble hemicellulose
stream increased the concentration of sugars available for fermentation by 10%, resulting in the high conversion efficiency
of 91%. Saccharomyces cerevisiae was able to ferment the resultant corn fiber hydrolysates, perhydrolysate, and liquid fraction from the posthydrolysis steps
to 89, 94, and 85% of theoretical ethanol conversion, respectively. It was apparent that all of the parameters investigated
during the steam explosion pretreatment had a significant effect on sugar recovery, inhibitory formation, enzymatic conversion
efficiency, and fermentation capacity of the yeast. 相似文献
9.
Wheat straw was pretreated by wet explosion using three different oxidizing agents (H 2O 2, O 2, and air). The effect of the pretreatment was evaluated based on glucose and xylose liberated during enzymatic hydrolysis.
The results showed that pretreatment with the use of O 2 as oxidizing agent was the most efficient in enhancing overall convertibility of the raw material to sugars and minimizing
generation of furfural as a by-product. For scale-up of the process, high dry matter (DM) concentrations of 15–20% will be
necessary. However, high DM hydrolysis and fermentation are limited by high viscosity of the material, higher inhibition of
the enzymes, and fermenting microorganism. The wet-explosion pretreatment method enabled relatively high yields from both
enzymatic hydrolysis and simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (SSF) to be obtained when performed on unwashed slurry
with 14% DM and a low enzyme loading of 10 FPU/g cellulose in an industrial acceptable time frame of 96 h. Cellulose and hemicellulose
conversion from enzymatic hydrolysis were 70 and 68%, respectively, and an overall ethanol yield from SSF was 68%. 相似文献
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In this study, corn stover with a dry matter content of 20% was impregnated with SO 2 and then steam pretreated for various times at various temperatures. The pretreatment was evaluated by enzymatic hydrolysis
of the solid material and analysis of the sugar content in the liquid. The maximum overall yield of glucose, 89% of the theoretical
based on the glucan in the raw material, was achieved when the corn stover was pretreated at 200°C for 10 min. The maximum
overall yield of xylose, 78%, was obtained with pretreatment at 190°C for 5 min. 相似文献
11.
Whole tree chips obtained from softwood forest thinnings were converted to ethanol via a two-stage dilute acid hydrolysis followed by yeast fermentation. The chips were first impregnated with dilute sulfuric acid, then pretreated in a steam explosion reactor to hydrolyze, more than 90% of the hemicellulose and approx 10% of the cellulose. The hydrolysate was filtered and washed with water to recover the sugars. The washed fibers were then subjected to a second acid im pregnation and hydrolysis to hydrolyze as much as 45% of the reamining cellulose. The liquors from both hydrolysates were combined and fermented to ethanol by a Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast that had been adapted to the inhibitors. Based on available hexose sugars, ethanol yields varied from 74 to 89% of theoretical. Oligosaccharide contents higher than about 10% of the total available sugar appear to have a negative impact on ethanol yield. 相似文献
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Wheat straw is one of the main agricultural residues of interest for bioethanol production. This work examines conversion of steam-pretreated wheat straw (using SO 2 as a catalyst) in a hybrid process consisting of a short enzymatic prehydrolysis step and a subsequent simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (SSF) step with a xylose-fermenting strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. A successful process requires a balanced design of reaction time and temperature in the prehydrolysis step and yeast inoculum size and temperature in the SSF step. The pretreated material obtained after steam pretreatment at 210 °C for 5 min using 2.5 % SO 2 (based on moisture content) showed a very good enzymatic digestibility at 45 °C but clearly lower at 30 °C. Furthermore, the pretreatment liquid was found to be rather inhibitory to the yeast, partly due to a furfural content of more than 3 g/L. The effect of varying the yeast inoculum size in this medium was assessed, and at a yeast inoculum size of 4 g/L, a complete conversion of glucose and a 90 % conversion of xylose were obtained within 50 h. An ethanol yield (based on the glucan and xylan in the pretreated material) of 0.39 g/g was achieved for a process with this yeast inoculum size in a hybrid process (10 % water-insoluble solid (WIS)) with 4 h prehydrolysis time and a total process time of 96 h. The obtained xylose conversion was 95 %. A longer prehydrolysis time or a lower yeast inoculum size resulted in incomplete xylose conversion. 相似文献
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Among the available agricultural byproducts, corn stover, with its yearly production of 10 million t (dry basis), is the most
abundant promising raw material for fuel ethanol production in Hungary. In the United States, more than 216 million to fcorn
stover is produced annually, of which a portion also could possibly be collected for conversion to ethanol. However, a network
of lignin and hemicellulose protects cellulose, which is the major source of fermentable sugars in corn stover (approx 40%
of the dry matter [DM]). Steam pretreatment removes the major part of the hemicellulose from the solid material and makes
the cellulose more susceptible to enzymatic digestion. We studied 12 different combinations of reaction temperature, time,
and pH during steam pretreatment. The best conditions (200°C, 5 min, 2% H 2SO 4) increased the enzymatic conversion (from cellulose to glucose) of corn stover more then four times, compared to untreated
material. However, steam pretreatment at 190°C for 5 min with 2% sulfuric acid resulted in the highest overall yield of sugars,
56.1 g from 100 g of untreated material (DM), corresponding to 73% of the theoretical. The liquor following steam explosion
was fermented using Saccharomyces cerevisiae to investigate the inhibitory effect of the pretreatment. The achieved ethanol yield was slightly higher than that obtained
with a reference sugar solution. This demonstrates that baker's yeast could adapt to the pretreated liquor and ferment the
glucose to ethanol efficiently. 相似文献
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The recent implementation of a new two-step centrifugation process for extracting olive oil in Spain has substantially reduced
water consumption, thereby eliminating oil mill wastewater. However, a new high sugar content residue is still generated.
In this work the two fractions present in the residue (olive pulp and fragm ented stones) were assayed as substrate for ethanol
production by the simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (SSF) process. Pretreatment of fragmented olive stones by
sulfuric acid-catalyzed steam explosion was the most effective treatment for increasing enzymatic digestibility; however,
a pretreatment step was not necessary to bioconvert the olive pulp into ethanol. Theolive pulp and fragmented olive stones
were tested by the SSF process using a fed-batch procedure. By adding the pulp three times at 24-h intervals, 76% of the theoretical
SSF yield was obtained. Experiments with fed-batch pretreated olive stones provided SSF yields significantly lower than those
obtained at standard SSF procedure. The preferred SSF conditions to obtain ethanol from olives stones (61% of theoretical
yield) were 10% substrate and addition of cellulases at 15 filter paper units/g of substrate. 相似文献
15.
Steam treatment of an industrial process stream, denoted starch-free wheat fiber, was investigated to improve the formation
of monomeric sugars in subsequent enzymatic hydrolysis for further bioconversion into ethanol. The solid fraction in the process
stream, derived from a combined starch and ethanol factory, was rich in arabinose (21.1%), xylose (30.1%), and glucose (18.6%),
in the form of polysaccharides. Various conditions of steam pretreatment (170–220°C for 5–30 min) were evaluated, and their
effect was assessed by enzymatic hydrolysis with 2 g of Celluclast + Ultraflo mixture/ 100 g of starch-free fiber (SFF) slurry
at 5% dry matter (DM). The highest overall sugar yield for the combined steam pretreatment and enzymatic hydrolysis, 52g/100
g of DM of SFF, corresponding to 74% of the theoretical, was achieved with pretreatment at 190°C for 10 min followed by enzymatic
hydrolysis. 相似文献
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The pretreatment of lignocellulosic materials prior to the enzymatic hydrolysis is essential to the sugar yield and bioethanol
production. Dilute acid hydrolysis of black spruce softwood chip was performed in a continuous high temperature reactor followed
with steam explosion and mechanical refining. The acid-soaked wood chips were pretreated under different feeding rates (60
and 92 kg/h), cooking screw rotation speeds (7.2 and 14.4 rpm), and steam pressures (12 and 15 bar). The enzymatic hydrolysis
was carried out on the acid-insoluble fraction of pretreated material. At lower feeding rate, the pretreatment at low steam
pressure and short retention time favored the recovery of hemicellulose. The pretreatment at high steam pressure and longer
retention time recovered less hemicellulose but improved the enzymatic accessibility. As a result, the overall sugar yields
became similar no matter what levels of the retention time or steam pressure. Comparing with lower feeding rate, higher feeding
rate resulted in consistently higher glucose yield in both liquid fraction after pretreatment and that released after enzymatic
hydrolysis. 相似文献
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Corn stover is emerging as a viable feedstock for producing bioethanol from renewable resources. Dilute-acid pretreatment
of corn stover can solubilize a significant portion of the hemicellulosic component and enhance the enzymatic digestibility
of the remaining cellulose for fermentation into ethanol. In this study, dilute H 2SO 4 pretreatment of corn stover was performed in a steam explosion reactor at 160°C, 180°C, and 190°C, approx 1 wt% H 2SO 4, and 70-s to 840-s residence times. The combined severity (Log 10 [ R
o
] - pH), an expression relating pH, temperature, and residence time of pretreatment, ranged from 1.8 to 2.4. Soluble xylose
yields varied from 63 to 77% of theoretical from pretreatments of corn stover at 160 and 180°C. However, yields >90% of theoretical
were found with dilute-acid pretreatments at 190°C. A narrower range of higher combined severities was required for pretreatment
to obtain high soluble xylose yields when the moisture content of the acid-impregnated feedstock was increased from 55 to
63 wt%. Simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (SSF) of washed solids from corn stover pretreated at 190°C, using
an enzyme loading of 15 filter paper units (FPU)/g of cellulose, gave ethanol yields in excess of 85%. Similar SSF ethanol
yields were found using washed solid residues from 160 and 180°C pretreatments at similar combined severities but required
a higher enzyme loading of approx 25 FPU/g of cellulose. 相似文献
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Effective utilization of the lignin by-product is a prerequisite to the commercial viability of ethanol production from softwood wastes using a steam explosion (SE)/enzymatic hydrolysis (EH)/fermentation process. Changes in the chemical composition of Douglas fir wood on SO 2-catalyzed SE followed by EH were assessed using conventional analytical methods and new halogen-probetechniques. A significant solubilization of hemicelluloses was observed in the SE stage, the severity of which affected subsequent fermentation of cellulose and sorption of enzymes. SE of softwood resulted in dramatic changes in the chemical structure of lignin in the residual material involving chemical reactions via the benzyl cation. This leads to a more condensed lignin with partly blocked α-reaction centres. Possible uses for this lignin are discussed. 相似文献
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Corn fiber, a by-product of the corn wet-milling industry, represents a renewable resource that is readily available in significant
quantities and could potentially serve as a low-cost feedstock for the production of fuel-grade alcohol. In this study, we
used a batch reactor to steam explode corn fiber at various degrees of severity to evaluate the potential of using this feedstock
in the bioconversion process. The results indicated that maximum sugar yields (soluble and following enzymatic hydrolysis)
were recovered from corn fiber that was pretreated at 190°C for 5 min with 6% SO 2. Sequential SO 2-catalyzed steam explosion and enzymatic hydrolysis resulted in very high conversion (81%) of all polysaccharides in the corn
fiber to monomeric sugars. Subsequently, Saccharomyces cerevisiae was able to convert the resultant corn fiber hydrolysates to ethanol very efficiently, yielding 90–96% of theoretical conversion
during the fermentation process. 相似文献
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The production of ethanol and methane from corn stover (CS) was investigated in a biorefinery process. Initially, a novel soaking pretreatment (NaOH and aqueous-ammonia) for CS was developed to remove lignin, swell the biomass, and improve enzymatic digestibility. Based on the sugar yield during enzymatic hydrolysis, the optimal pretreatment conditions were 1?% NaOH?+?8?% NH 4OH, 50°C, 48?h, with a solid-to-liquid ratio 1:10. The results demonstrated that soaking pretreatment removed 63.6?% lignin while reserving most of the carbohydrates. After enzymatic hydrolysis, the yields of glucose and xylose were 78.5?% and 69.3?%, respectively. The simultaneous saccharification and fermentation of pretreated CS using Pichia stipitis resulted in an ethanol concentration of 36.1?g/L, corresponding only to 63.3?% of the theoretical maximum. In order to simplify the process and reduce the capital cost, the liquid fraction of the pretreatment was used to re-soak new CS. For methane production, the re-soaked CS and the residues of SSF were anaerobically digested for 120?days. Fifteen grams CS were converted to 1.9?g of ethanol and 1337.3?mL of methane in the entire process. 相似文献
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