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Title: Assessing the Viability of Recovery of Hydroxycinnamic Acids from Lignocellulosic Biorefinery Alkaline Pretreatment Waste Streams

Abstract

The hydroxycinnamic acids, p-coumaric acid (pCA) and ferulic acid (FA), add diversity to the portfolio of products produced by grassfed lignocellulosic biorefineries. The level of lignin-bound p CA in Zea mays was modified by alteration of PMT expression. The biomass was processed in a lab-scale alkaline-pretreatment biorefinery process and the data was used for a baseline technoeconomic analysis to determine where to direct our future research efforts in coupling plant design to biomass utilization processes. We concluded that future plant engineering efforts should focus on strategies that ramp up predominantly one type of hydroxycinnamate (pCA or FA) and suppress accumulation of the other. The technoeconomic analysis indicated that target extraction titers of one hydroxycinnamic acid need to be >50 g kg-1 biomass, at least a five-fold higher than our observed titers for the impure p CA/FA product mixture from wild-type maize. The technical challenge for process engineers is to develop a viable process requiring more than 80% reduction in the isolation costs.

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  1. DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research CenterWisconsin Energy InstituteUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison Madison WI 53726 USA; Department of BiochemistryUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison Madison WI 53706 USA
  2. DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research CenterWisconsin Energy InstituteUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison Madison WI 53726 USA; Department of Chemical and Biological EngineeringUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison Madison WI 53706 USA
  3. DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research CenterWisconsin Energy InstituteUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison Madison WI 53726 USA; Department of AgronomyUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison Madison WI 53706 USA
  4. DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research CenterWisconsin Energy InstituteUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison Madison WI 53726 USA
  5. DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research CenterSchool of Biological SciencesIllinois State University Normal IL 61790 USA
  6. DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research CenterWisconsin Energy InstituteUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison Madison WI 53726 USA; Department of Biological Systems EngineeringUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison Madison WI 53706 USA
  7. DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research CenterWisconsin Energy InstituteUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison Madison WI 53726 USA; Morgridge Institute for Research Madison WI 53715 USA
  8. DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research CenterWisconsin Energy InstituteUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison Madison WI 53726 USA; Morgridge Institute for Research Madison WI 53715 USA; Department of Biomolecular ChemistryUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison Madison WI 53706 USA; Department of ChemistryUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison Madison WI 53706 USA
  9. Department of Biological Systems EngineeringUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison Madison WI 53706 USA
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Research Org.:
Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), Madison, WI (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
OSTI Identifier:
1604113
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1600940; OSTI ID: 1604115
Grant/Contract Number:  
FC02-07ER64494; SC0018409
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
ChemSusChem
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: ChemSusChem; Journal ID: ISSN 1864-5631
Publisher:
ChemPubSoc Europe
Country of Publication:
Germany
Language:
English
Subject:
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; acids; biomass; industrial chemistry; protein; engineering; synthesis design

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Karlen, Steven D., Fasahati, Peyman, Mazaheri, Mona, Serate, Jose, Smith, Rebecca A., Sirobhushanam, Sirisha, Chen, Mingjie, Tymokhin, Vitaliy I., Cass, Cynthia L., Liu, Sarah, Padmakshan, Dharshana, Xie, Dan, Zhang, Yaoping, McGee, Mick A., Russell, Jason D., Coon, Joshua J., Kaeppler, Heidi F., Leon, Natalia, Maravelias, Christos T., Runge, Troy M., Kaeppler, Shawn M., Sedbrook, John C., and Ralph, John. Assessing the Viability of Recovery of Hydroxycinnamic Acids from Lignocellulosic Biorefinery Alkaline Pretreatment Waste Streams. Germany: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1002/cssc.201903345.
Karlen, Steven D., Fasahati, Peyman, Mazaheri, Mona, Serate, Jose, Smith, Rebecca A., Sirobhushanam, Sirisha, Chen, Mingjie, Tymokhin, Vitaliy I., Cass, Cynthia L., Liu, Sarah, Padmakshan, Dharshana, Xie, Dan, Zhang, Yaoping, McGee, Mick A., Russell, Jason D., Coon, Joshua J., Kaeppler, Heidi F., Leon, Natalia, Maravelias, Christos T., Runge, Troy M., Kaeppler, Shawn M., Sedbrook, John C., & Ralph, John. Assessing the Viability of Recovery of Hydroxycinnamic Acids from Lignocellulosic Biorefinery Alkaline Pretreatment Waste Streams. Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201903345
Karlen, Steven D., Fasahati, Peyman, Mazaheri, Mona, Serate, Jose, Smith, Rebecca A., Sirobhushanam, Sirisha, Chen, Mingjie, Tymokhin, Vitaliy I., Cass, Cynthia L., Liu, Sarah, Padmakshan, Dharshana, Xie, Dan, Zhang, Yaoping, McGee, Mick A., Russell, Jason D., Coon, Joshua J., Kaeppler, Heidi F., Leon, Natalia, Maravelias, Christos T., Runge, Troy M., Kaeppler, Shawn M., Sedbrook, John C., and Ralph, John. Wed . "Assessing the Viability of Recovery of Hydroxycinnamic Acids from Lignocellulosic Biorefinery Alkaline Pretreatment Waste Streams". Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201903345.
@article{osti_1604113,
title = {Assessing the Viability of Recovery of Hydroxycinnamic Acids from Lignocellulosic Biorefinery Alkaline Pretreatment Waste Streams},
author = {Karlen, Steven D. and Fasahati, Peyman and Mazaheri, Mona and Serate, Jose and Smith, Rebecca A. and Sirobhushanam, Sirisha and Chen, Mingjie and Tymokhin, Vitaliy I. and Cass, Cynthia L. and Liu, Sarah and Padmakshan, Dharshana and Xie, Dan and Zhang, Yaoping and McGee, Mick A. and Russell, Jason D. and Coon, Joshua J. and Kaeppler, Heidi F. and Leon, Natalia and Maravelias, Christos T. and Runge, Troy M. and Kaeppler, Shawn M. and Sedbrook, John C. and Ralph, John},
abstractNote = {The hydroxycinnamic acids, p-coumaric acid (pCA) and ferulic acid (FA), add diversity to the portfolio of products produced by grassfed lignocellulosic biorefineries. The level of lignin-bound p CA in Zea mays was modified by alteration of PMT expression. The biomass was processed in a lab-scale alkaline-pretreatment biorefinery process and the data was used for a baseline technoeconomic analysis to determine where to direct our future research efforts in coupling plant design to biomass utilization processes. We concluded that future plant engineering efforts should focus on strategies that ramp up predominantly one type of hydroxycinnamate (pCA or FA) and suppress accumulation of the other. The technoeconomic analysis indicated that target extraction titers of one hydroxycinnamic acid need to be >50 g kg-1 biomass, at least a five-fold higher than our observed titers for the impure p CA/FA product mixture from wild-type maize. The technical challenge for process engineers is to develop a viable process requiring more than 80% reduction in the isolation costs.},
doi = {10.1002/cssc.201903345},
journal = {ChemSusChem},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {Germany},
year = {Wed Mar 11 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Wed Mar 11 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
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