Pretreatment of cellulosic biomass in improved production of ethanol and chemicals
- Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)
- Jilin Corn Research and Development Center (China)
A highly efficient process of simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (SSF) of cellulose using fungal cellulose and yeast to produce ethanol from lignocellulose pretreated with ammonia was developed. The process entails steeping the biomass with ammonia at ambient temperature to remove and extract lignin. This is followed by dilute acid hydrolysis at 100-108{degrees}C under atmospheric pressure to remove and recover a xylose-rich hemicellulose fraction as hemicellulose hydrolysate. This xylose-rich (92% xylose) hydrolysate was used as substrate for xylitol production by yeast and cellulose fraction was used for ethanol production in the SSF process with yeast. The same substrate was also used for 2,3-butanediol production in the SSF process with Klebsiella pneumonia. Experiments show that 98% of ammonia is recoverable for reuse and that the treated ground corn cob gives close to 86% theoretical yield of ethanol based on cellulose content. An ethanol concentration of over 60 g/L was obtained within 72 hours of SSF. 8 refs., 7 figs.
- OSTI ID:
- 416367
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960730-; TRN: 96:006486-0003
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 5. world congress of chemical engineering, San Diego, CA (United States), 14-18 Jul 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of The 5th World Congress of chemical engineering: Technologies critical to a changing World. Volume II: Agriculture, food biotechnology biomedical electric power process safety; PB: 1140 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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