Abstract
An advanced pretreatment method that combines steam treatment (ST) with wet disk milling (WDM) was evaluated using two different species of woods, viz., Hinoki cypress (softwood) and Eucalyptus (hardwood). Bioconversion of the pretreated products was performed using enzymatic saccharification via a commercial cellulase mixture and two types of fermentation processing, i.e., yeast-based simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (SSF) and Clostridium thermocellum-based consolidated bioprocessing (CBP). A higher yield of glucose was obtained in the enzymatic saccharification and fermentation products from SSF and CBP with pretreatment consisting of WDM after ST, as compared to either ST or WDM alone. Maximum ethanol production via SSF and CBP were 359.3 and 79.4. mg/g-cellulose from Hinoki cypress, and 299.5 and 73.1. mg/g-cellulose from Eucalyptus, respectively. While the main fermentation product generated in CBP was acetate, the total products yield was 319.9 and 262.0. mg/g-cellulose from Hinoki cypress and Eucalyptus, respectively.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 89-95 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Bioresource Technology |
Volume | 162 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 2014 |
Funding
This work was supported by Japan–U.S. cooperation project for research and standardization of Clean Energy Technologies. A portion of this work was conducted in the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, TN, USA, in laboratories supported by the Bioenergy Science Center (BESC) which is a U.S. Department of Energy Bioenergy Research Center supported by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research in the DOE Office of Science under a U.S. Government contract DE-AC05-00OR22725.
Funders | Funder number |
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BioEnergy Science Center | |
DOE Office of Science | DE-AC05-00OR22725 |
Office of Biological and Environmental Research | |
U.S. Department of Energy Bioenergy Research Center |
Keywords
- Consolidated bioprocessing
- Enzymatic saccharification
- Simultaneous saccharification and fermentation
- Steam treatment
- Wet disk milling