1. Efficient ethanol production from paper mulberry pretreated at high solid loading in Fed-nonisothermal-simultaneous saccharification and fermentation
- Author
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Zhaobao Wang, Peng Ning, Qingjuan Nie, Jianming Yang, Lihong Hu, Yonghong Zhou, and Yiguo Liu
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Ethanol ,060102 archaeology ,biology ,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment ,Chemistry ,020209 energy ,Paper mulberry ,Substrate (chemistry) ,06 humanities and the arts ,02 engineering and technology ,Ethanol fermentation ,biology.organism_classification ,Pulp and paper industry ,Hydrolysis ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Biofuel ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,0601 history and archaeology ,Ethanol fuel ,Fermentation - Abstract
Paper mulberry, a fast-growing and vigorous plant, is a potential substrate for producing lignocellulosic bioethanol and an important renewable alternative to fossil fuels. In order to improve the economic feasibility of ethanol production from paper mulberry, H3PO4/H2O2 pretreatment was selected as the most suitable pretreatment method that could produce the highest glucose concentration (131 g/L) compared with other pretreatments (73.2–89.3 g/L) at high solid loading. Whereafter, the final solid loading of H3PO4/H2O2 pretreatment was significantly increased to 40% (w/v) without any decrease in the final glucose concentration. Finally, a novel Fed-nonisothermal-simultaneous saccharification and fermentation was constructed using H3PO4/H2O2 pretreated paper mulberry, which bypassed the inhibition caused by paper mulberry solid and high temperature on the traditional simultaneous saccharification and fermentation, improving ethanol concentration (63.9 g/L), ethanol productivity (1.33 g/L/h) and ethanol yield (0.160 g/g-biomass) by 30.4%, 30.4% and 30.1%, respectively, compared to those obtained from SSF (simultaneous saccharification and fermentation) process. Thus, we have opened up a novel way to produce ethanol or other biofuels using the paper mulberry as an outstanding alternative substrate.
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- 2020