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Impact of Conditioning Prior to Dilute Acid Deconstruction of Biomass for the Production of Fermentable Sugars
DBT-IOC Centre for Advance Bioenergy Research, R&D Centre, Indian Oil Corporation Ltd, Faridabad, India.
DBT-IOC Centre for Advance Bioenergy Research, R&D Centre, Indian Oil Corporation Ltd, Faridabad, India.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2637-1980
DBT-IOC Centre for Advance Bioenergy Research, R&D Centre, Indian Oil Corporation Ltd, Faridabad, India.
DBT-IOC Centre for Advance Bioenergy Research, R&D Centre, Indian Oil Corporation Ltd, Faridabad, India.
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2017 (English)In: ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, E-ISSN 2168-0485, Vol. 5, no 5, p. 4285-4292Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Cost of cellulases is a major impediment in commercialization of cellulosic ethanol. To reduce the enzyme doses for the production of fermentable sugars from rice straw (RS), a series of alkali conditioning experiments were conducted prior to dilute acid (DA) pretreatment. This approach resulted in removal of a majority of extractives, ash, acetic acid, and part lignin, and thus resulted in lowering pseudolignin formation thereby increasing enzymatic hydrolysis yields. Glucan hydrolysis of 69.8%, 74.0%, and 83.5% was obtained at 10 wt % water insoluble solid (WIS) using 8 FPU enzyme/g WIS of biomass conditioned using 0.2, 0.4, and 0.5 wt % alkali prior to pretreatment, which is 14–37% higher than the control (61.0%). The overall sugar recovery in these experiments were 69.2%, 70.2%, and 68.5% at 15 wt % WIS resulting in a sugar concentration greater than 120 g/L, which in turn can produce approximately 5–6% w/v ethanol concentration in fermentation broth. It was found that this approach resulted in a decrease of the enzyme consumption vis-a-vis the conventional process by 46.4% to recover the same amount of sugars. This lowering of enzyme consumption has resulted in net savings, after taking into account the cost of alkali used in the conditioning steps.

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American Chemical Society (ACS), 2017. Vol. 5, no 5, p. 4285-4292
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Alkali conditioning, Dilute acid pretreatment, Economic analysis, Enzymatic hydrolysis, Rice straw
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-26930DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.7b00302OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hig-26930DiVA, id: diva2:1216747
Available from: 2018-06-12 Created: 2018-06-12 Last updated: 2022-05-20Bibliographically approved

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