Pretreatment and enzymatic hydrolysis of corn fiber
Conference
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OSTI ID:370936
- USDA Citrus and Subtropical Products Research Labs., Winter Haven, CT (United States)
- National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, Peoria, IL (United States)
Corn fiber is a co-product of the corn wet milling industry which is usually marketed as a low value animal feed ingredient. Approximately 1.2 x 10{sup 6} dry tons of this material are produced annually in the United States. The fiber is composed of kernel cell wall fractions and a residual starch which can all be potentially hydrolyzed to a mixture of glucose, xylose, arabinose and galactose. We have investigated a sequential saccharification of polysaccharides in corn fiber by a treatment with dilute sulfuric acid at 100 to 160{degrees}C followed by partial neutralization and enzymatic hydrolysis with mixed cellulose and amyloglucosidase enzymes at 45{degrees}C. The sequential treatment achieved a high (approximately 85%) conversion of all polysaccharides in the corn fiber to monomeric sugars, which were in most cases fermentable to ethanol by the recombinant bacterium Escherichia coli KOll.
- OSTI ID:
- 370936
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960376--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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