秸秆发酵燃料乙醇关键问题及其进展

利用木质纤维素原料生产燃料乙醇是国际公认的难题.本文从秸秆原料组分不均一性出发,分析了秸秆难以高值化原因;进一步分析了秸秆酶解发酵燃料乙醇的关键问题,介绍了有关秸秆原料预处理、纤维素酶生产、秸秆酶解发酵乙醇和产业化示范工程等的进展.秸秆酶解发酵燃料乙醇产业化示范工程具有自主知识产权,为实现我国秸秆转化燃料乙醇的规模化、产业化、低成本生产奠定了基础.     

秸秆发酵燃料乙醇关键问题及其进展

利用木质纤维素原料生产燃料乙醇是国际公认的难题。本文从秸秆原料组分不均一性出发,分析了秸秆难以高值化原因;进一步分析了秸秆酶解发酵燃料乙醇的关键问题,介绍了有关秸秆原料预处理、纤维素酶生产、秸秆酶解发酵乙醇和产业化示范工程等的进展。秸秆酶解发酵燃料乙醇产业化示范工程具有自主知识产权,为实现我国秸秆转化燃料乙醇的规模化、产业化、低成本生产奠定了基础。     

纤维素制取乙醇技术

以纤维素为原料生产燃料乙醇由于其原料来源广泛及环保效益良好而被认为是最有前景的生产燃料乙醇的方法之一.以纤维素为原料生产乙醇主要包括水解和发酵两个转化过程.本文介绍了纤维素生产燃料乙醇的原理及工艺过程,同时讨论了各工艺过程需要解决的关键技术问题,分析了过程的经济性,最后介绍了国内外的应用现状,展望了纤维素生产燃料乙醇的产业化前景.     

纤维素制取乙醇技术

以纤维素为原料生产燃料乙醇由于其原料来源广泛及环保效益良好而被认为是最有前景的生产燃料乙醇的方法之一.以纤维素为原料生产乙醇主要包括水解和发酵两个转化过程.本文介绍了纤维素生产燃料乙醇的原理及工艺过程,同时讨论了各工艺过程需要解决的关键技术问题,分析了过程的经济性,最后介绍了国内外的应用现状,展望了纤维素生产燃料乙醇的产业化前景.     

纤维素乙醇产业化

由于能发挥缓解能源紧张、减少环境污染、促进农村发展等重要作用,利用年产量巨大的植物纤维资源,生产可再生性液体替代燃料乙醇的技术受到了巨大的关注,成为工业生物技术的研究热点.酶法生产纤维素乙醇面临多种困难:纤维素原料比重轻,收集运输不便;原料结构复杂,需要深度预处理;纤维素酶系的酶解效率有待提高;半纤维素中的木糖难以发酵转化为乙醇等.经过多年研究,新技术已经取得重大进展,开始接近实用化.紧迫的社会需求正在迫使国内外政府和企业界大量投资,开展纤维素乙醇的中试研究和试生产,力求在短时期内克服上述难点,尽快实现产业化.充分利用植物纤维资源中的多种组分,联合生产乙醇和部分高值产品的生物精练技术,是实现纤维素乙醇产业化的重要突破口和必然途径.玉米芯生物精练生产乙醇和木糖相关产品的技术正在进行产业化.本文综述了纤维素乙醇产业化的研究进展并做了展望.     

纤维素制取乙醇技术

以纤维素为原料生产燃料乙醇由于其原料来源广泛及环保效益良好而被认为是最有前景的生产燃料乙醇的方法之一。以纤维素为原料生产乙醇主要包括水解和发酵两个转化过程。本文介绍了纤维素生产燃料乙醇的原理及工艺过程,同时讨论了各工艺过程需要解决的关键技术问题,分析了过程的经济性,最后介绍了国内外的应用现状,展望了纤维素生产燃料乙醇的产业化前景。     

纤维素乙醇产业化

由于能发挥缓解能源紧张、减少环境污染、促进农村发展等重要作用,利用年产量巨大的植物纤维资源,生产可再生性液体替代燃料乙醇的技术受到了巨大的关注,成为工业生物技术的研究热点。酶法生产纤维素乙醇面临多种困难:纤维素原料比重轻,收集运输不便;原料结构复杂,需要深度预处理;纤维素酶系的酶解效率有待提高;半纤维素中的木糖难以发酵转化为乙醇等。经过多年研究,新技术已经取得重大进展,开始接近实用化。紧迫的社会需求正在迫使国内外政府和企业界大量投资,开展纤维素乙醇的中试研究和试生产,力求在短时期内克服上述难点,尽快实现产业化。充分利用植物纤维资源中的多种组分,联合生产乙醇和部分高值产品的生物精练技术,是实现纤维素乙醇产业化的重要突破口和必然途径。玉米芯生物精练生产乙醇和木糖相关产品的技术正在进行产业化。本文综述了纤维素乙醇产业化的研究进展并做了展望。     

纤维素乙醇产业化

由于能发挥缓解能源紧张、减少环境污染、促进农村发展等重要作用,利用年产量巨大的植物纤维资源,生产可再生性液体替代燃料乙醇的技术受到了巨大的关注,成为工业生物技术的研究热点.酶法生产纤维素乙醇面临多种困难:纤维素原料比重轻,收集运输不便;原料结构复杂,需要深度预处理;纤维素酶系的酶解效率有待提高;半纤维素中的木糖难以发酵转化为乙醇等.经过多年研究,新技术已经取得重大进展,开始接近实用化.紧迫的社会需求正在迫使国内外政府和企业界大量投资,开展纤维素乙醇的中试研究和试生产,力求在短时期内克服上述难点,尽快实现产业化.充分利用植物纤维资源中的多种组分,联合生产乙醇和部分高值产品的生物精练技术,是实现纤维素乙醇产业化的重要突破口和必然途径.玉米芯生物精练生产乙醇和木糖相关产品的技术正在进行产业化.本文综述了纤维素乙醇产业化的研究进展并做了展望.     

秸秆生产乙醇预处理关键技术

乙醇是一种很有希望替代有限石油的燃料.目前燃料乙醇已在我国部分省市得到应用.我国目前燃料乙醇生产的主要原料是陈化粮,但我国陈化粮可用于燃料乙醇生产的量十分有限.真正可大量转化乙醇的应是纤维质材料.纤维质材料转化乙醇的挑战性问题是产量偏低、成本偏高.纤维质材料的预处理是转化乙醇过程中的关键步骤,该步骤的优化可明显提高纤维素的水解率,进而降低乙醇的生产成本.本文总结了纤维质材料预处理的各种方法,对各种方法的优缺点进行了综述和分析,并对生物质预处理技术发展的前景进行了展望.     

我国燃料乙醇生产技术的现状与展望

概述了目前国内外燃料乙醇产业现状.结合我国中粮生化能源(肇东)有限公司燃料乙醇装置,重点介绍了我国目前的燃料乙醇生产工艺技术水平、特点以及与国外的差距.本文从提高燃料乙醇生产技术水平、降低生产成本、寻找廉价非粮原料和开发新生产工艺等几个方面,对燃料乙醇生产技术的发展作了展望.     

Comparison of Different Pretreatment Strategies for Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Wheat and Barley Straw

In biomass-to-ethanol processes a physico-chemical pretreatment of the lignocellulosic biomass is a critical requirement for enhancing the accessibility of the cellulose substrate to enzymatic attack. This report evaluates the efficacy on barley and wheat straw of three different pretreatment procedures: acid or water impregnation followed by steam explosion versus hot water extraction. The pretreatments were compared after enzyme treatment using a cellulase enzyme system, Celluclast 1.5 L from Trichoderma reesei, and a beta-glucosidase, Novozyme 188 from Aspergillus niger. Barley straw generally produced higher glucose concentrations after enzymatic hydrolysis than wheat straw. Acid or water impregnation followed by steam explosion of barley straw was the best pretreatment in terms of resulting glucose concentration in the liquid hydrolysate after enzymatic hydrolysis. When the glucose concentrations obtained after enzymatic hydrolyses were related to the potential glucose present in the pretreated residues, the highest yield, approximately 48% (g g-1), was obtained with hot water extraction pretreatment of barley straw; this pretreatment also produced highest yields for wheat straw, producing a glucose yield of approximately 39% (g g-1). Addition of extra enzyme (Celluclast 1.5 L+Novozyme 188) during enzymatic hydrolysis resulted in the highest total glucose concentrations from barley straw, 32-39 g L-1, but the relative increases in glucose yields were higher on wheat straw than on barley straw. Maldi-TOF MS analyses of supernatants of pretreated barley and wheat straw samples subjected to acid and water impregnation, respectively, and steam explosion, revealed that the water impregnated + steam-exploded samples gave a wider range of pentose oligomers than the corresponding acid-impregnated samples.     

Structural Insights into Rice Straw Pretreated by Hot-Compressed Water in Relation to Enzymatic Hydrolysis

Pretreatment-induced structural alteration is critical in influencing the rate and extent of enzymatic saccharification of lignocellulosic biomass. The present work has investigated structural features of rice straw pretreated by hot-compressed water (HCW) from 140 to 240 °C for 10 or 30 min and enzymatic hydrolysis profiles of pretreated rice straw. Compositional profiles of pretreated rice straw were examined to offer the basis for structural changes. The wide-angle X-ray diffraction analysis revealed possible modification in crystalline microstructure of cellulose and the severity-dependent variation of crystallinity. The specific surface area (SSA) of pretreated samples was able to achieve more than 10-fold of that of the raw material and was in linear relationship with the removal of acetyl groups and xylan. The glucose yield by enzymatic hydrolysis of pretreated materials correlated linearly with the SSA increase and the dissolution of acetyl and xylan. A quantitatively intrinsic relationship was suggested to exist between enzymatic hydrolysis and the extraction of hemicellulose components in hydrothermally treated rice straw, and SSA was considered one important structural parameter signaling the efficiency of enzymatic digestibility in HCW-treated materials in which hemicellulose removal and lignin redistribution happened.     

Effect of inhibitors released during steam-explosion pretreatment of barley straw on enzymatic hydrolysis

The influence of the liquid fraction (prehydrolysate) generated during steam-explosion pretreatment (210°C, 15 min) of barley straw on the enzymatic hydrolysis was determined. Prehydrolysate was analyzed for degradation compounds and sugars' content and used as a medium for enzymatic hydrolysis tests after pH adjusting to 4.8. Our results show that the presence of the compounds contained in the prehydrolysate strongly affects the hydrolysis step (a 25% decrease in cellulose conversion compared with control). Sugars are shown to be more potent inhibitors of enzymatic hydrolysis than degradation products.     

Kinetic Studies on the Product Inhibition of Enzymatic Lignocellulose Hydrolysis

In order to understand the product inhibition of enzymatic lignocellulose hydrolysis, the enzymatic hydrolysis of pretreated rice straw was carried out over an enzyme loading range of 2 to 30 FPU/g substrate, and the inhibition of enzymatic hydrolysis was analyzed kinetically based on the reducing sugars produced. It was shown that glucose, xylose, and arabinose were the main reducing sugar components contained in the hydrolysate. The mass ratio of glucose, xylose, and arabinose to the total reducing sugars was almost constant at 52.0?%, 29.7?% and 18.8?%, respectively, in the enzyme loading range. The reducing sugars exerted competitive inhibitory interferences to the enzymatic hydrolysis. Glucose, xylose, and arabinose had a dissociation constant of 1.24, 0.54 and 0.33?g/l, respectively. The inhibitory interferences by reducing sugars were superimposed on the enzymatic hydrolysis. The enzymatic hydrolysis could be improved by the removal of the produced reducing sugars from hydrolysate.     

Novel enzymatic assay for determination of alkyl polyglycosides with short chain fatty alcohols

An enzymatic assay has been developed for the quantitative detection of alkyl polyglycosides after enzymatic hydrolysis with different carbohydrolases. A three-step enzymatic method was used for the quantification of alkyl polyglycosides. In the first step the enzymatic hydrolysis of alkyl polyglycosides was performed with different carbohydrolases, or an acid hydrolysis was used. The second step was quantification of free glucose with an enzyme electrode, which was covered with an immobilized glucose oxidase membrane; glucose was used as standard. The last step was the enzymatic quantification of fatty alcohols, which are the second substrate after enzymatic hydrolysis of alkyl polyglycosides. Surprisingly, the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase ADH (E.C. 1.1.1.1) from bakers' yeast could efficiently oxidize a wide variety of aliphatic alcohols and had the highest catalytic specificity with short and medium fatty alcohol substrates, including octanol and decanol.     

Ethanol production from steam-explosion pretreated wheat straw

Bioconversion of cereal straw to bioethanol is becoming an attractive alternative to conventional fuel ethanol production from grains. In this work, the best operational conditions for steam-explosion pretreatment of wheat straw for ethanol production by a simultaneous saccharification and fermentation process were studied, using diluted acid [H₂SO₄ 0.9% (w/w)] and water as preimpregnation agents. Acid-or water-impregnated biomass was steam-exploded at different temperatures (160–200°C) and residence times (5, 10, and 20 min). Composition of solid and filtrate obtained after pretreatment, enzymatic digestibility and ethanol production of pretreated wheat straw at different experimental conditions was analyzed. The best pretreatment conditions to obtain high conversion yield to ethanol (approx 80% of theoretical) of cellulose-rich residue after steam-explosion were 190°C and 10 min or 200°C and 5 min, in acid-impregnated straw. However, 180°C for 10 min in acid-impregnated biomass provided the highest ethanol yield referred to raw material (140 L/t wheat straw), and sugars recovery yield in the filtrate (300 g/kg wheat straw).     

Enzymatic conversion of cellulosic materials to sugars and alcohol

This techno-economic study deals with the production of sugars and alcohols from cellulosic materials. It covers such key subjects as: potential raw materials; the state-of-the-art on production technologies; the economics of extant processes; and finally infers implications for developing countries from the foregoing. It is clear that a large number of cellulose-, starch-, and sugarcontaining plants can be processed to produce sugars and alcohols. Sugar-containing plants such as sugarcane, sweet sorghum, and nipa palm are the best candidates for the high-yield production of alcohol fuel. Likewise, the starch-containing crops such as cassava, sweet potatoes, yams, taro, and tannia are good candidates, but require an additional step to break down starch to sugar. However, the emphasis of this report is on the major part of biomass containing cellulose and which, therefore, needs special treatment before it can be used to produce glucose and alcohols. To utilize cellulosic containing raw materials the following steps are necessary:

1. Growth, harvest, and delivery of raw materials to processing plants; or, alternatively, the collection and delivery of cellulosic “waste” products.
2. Pretreatment or conversion of the raw material by mechanical, physical, chemical, or enzymatic methods to break down the cellulose to sugars and to modify or remove unwanted side-products, usually lignin and hemicellulose.
3. Recovery and purification of sugars from reaction mixture.
4. Fermentation of sugars to alcohol and purification by distillation.
5. Treatment of process residues to reduce pollution and to recover potentially valuable side-products.

From the considerable research and development work carried out in all areas of pretreatment, it appears acid and enzymatic hydrolysis processes hold the most promise for developing countries. Though acid hydrolysis technology is more advanced, greater ultimate potential is seen in the enzymatic hydrolysis, which is, therefore, recommended for developing countries. The economics of producing alcohol from cellulosic materials is at this time not favorable. Nevertheless, it is recommended that further research and development be undertaken in this area in order to accomplish one or more commercially attractive processes for producing alcohol from fermenting cellulose. If this was accomplished, the developing countries could gain in the following manner:

? Increase self-sufficiency since alcohols can to a great part substitute for petroleum fuels.

? Achieve a better balance of trade.

? Be able to increase employment, especially in rural areas.

? Achieve a higher level of technical competence in biotechnology and related areas.

? Be in a position to expand chemical industries.

? Establish an improved agricultural base by being able to utilize alternative crops and by being able to use what was previously termed agricultural wastes.