Co-production of bio-ethanol, xylonic acid and slow-release nitrogen fertilizer from low-cost straw pulping solid residue
Abstract
In this paper, a novel bio-refinery sequence yielding varieties of co-products was developed using straw pulping solid residue. This process utilizes neutral sulfite pretreatment which under optimal conditions (160 °C and 3% (w/v) sulfite charge) provides 64.3% delignification while retaining 90% of cellulose and 67.3% of xylan. The pretreated solids exhibited excellent enzymatic digestibility, with saccharification yields of 86.9% and 81.1% for cellulose and xylan, respectively. After pretreatment, the process of semi-simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (S-SSF) and bio-catalysis was investigated. The results revealed that decreased ethanol yields were achieved when solid loading increased from 5% to 30%. An acceptable ethanol yield of 76.8% was obtained at 20% solid loading. After fermentation, bio-catalysis of xylose remaining in fermentation broth resulted in near 100% xylonic acid (XA) yield at varied solid loadings. Finally, to complete the co-product portfolio, oxidation ammoniation of the dissolved lignin successfully transformed it into biodegradable slow-release nitrogen fertilizer with excellent agricultural properties.
- Authors:
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- Nanjing Forestry Univ. (China). College of Chemical Engineering. Co-Innovation Center for Efficient Processing and Utilization of Forest Resources; Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States). Dept. of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
- Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States). Dept. of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering. Inst. of Agriculture. Dept. of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries. Center for Renewable Carbon; Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Chemical Sciences Division
- Nanjing Forestry Univ. (China). College of Chemical Engineering. Co-Innovation Center for Efficient Processing and Utilization of Forest Resources
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Nanjing Forestry Univ. (China)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE; National Key Technology Research and Development Program of China; Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province for Youth (China); National Natural Science Foundation for Youth (China)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1468141
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725; 2015BAD15B09; BK20150874; 31600463
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Bioresource Technology
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 250; Journal ID: ISSN 0960-8524
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 09 BIOMASS FUELS; neutral sulfite pretreatment; straw pulping solid residue; bio-ethanol; xylonic acid; slow-release nitrogen fertilizer
Citation Formats
Huang, Chen, Ragauskas, Arthur J., Wu, Xinxing, Huang, Yang, Zhou, Xuelian, He, Juan, Huang, Caoxing, Lai, Chenhuan, Li, Xin, and Yong, Qiang. Co-production of bio-ethanol, xylonic acid and slow-release nitrogen fertilizer from low-cost straw pulping solid residue. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2017.11.060.
Huang, Chen, Ragauskas, Arthur J., Wu, Xinxing, Huang, Yang, Zhou, Xuelian, He, Juan, Huang, Caoxing, Lai, Chenhuan, Li, Xin, & Yong, Qiang. Co-production of bio-ethanol, xylonic acid and slow-release nitrogen fertilizer from low-cost straw pulping solid residue. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2017.11.060
Huang, Chen, Ragauskas, Arthur J., Wu, Xinxing, Huang, Yang, Zhou, Xuelian, He, Juan, Huang, Caoxing, Lai, Chenhuan, Li, Xin, and Yong, Qiang. Wed .
"Co-production of bio-ethanol, xylonic acid and slow-release nitrogen fertilizer from low-cost straw pulping solid residue". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2017.11.060. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1468141.
@article{osti_1468141,
title = {Co-production of bio-ethanol, xylonic acid and slow-release nitrogen fertilizer from low-cost straw pulping solid residue},
author = {Huang, Chen and Ragauskas, Arthur J. and Wu, Xinxing and Huang, Yang and Zhou, Xuelian and He, Juan and Huang, Caoxing and Lai, Chenhuan and Li, Xin and Yong, Qiang},
abstractNote = {In this paper, a novel bio-refinery sequence yielding varieties of co-products was developed using straw pulping solid residue. This process utilizes neutral sulfite pretreatment which under optimal conditions (160 °C and 3% (w/v) sulfite charge) provides 64.3% delignification while retaining 90% of cellulose and 67.3% of xylan. The pretreated solids exhibited excellent enzymatic digestibility, with saccharification yields of 86.9% and 81.1% for cellulose and xylan, respectively. After pretreatment, the process of semi-simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (S-SSF) and bio-catalysis was investigated. The results revealed that decreased ethanol yields were achieved when solid loading increased from 5% to 30%. An acceptable ethanol yield of 76.8% was obtained at 20% solid loading. After fermentation, bio-catalysis of xylose remaining in fermentation broth resulted in near 100% xylonic acid (XA) yield at varied solid loadings. Finally, to complete the co-product portfolio, oxidation ammoniation of the dissolved lignin successfully transformed it into biodegradable slow-release nitrogen fertilizer with excellent agricultural properties.},
doi = {10.1016/j.biortech.2017.11.060},
journal = {Bioresource Technology},
number = ,
volume = 250,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Nov 22 00:00:00 EST 2017},
month = {Wed Nov 22 00:00:00 EST 2017}
}
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