Journal
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 235, Issue -, Pages 389-395Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2017.03.128
Keywords
Miscanthus; Methane potential; Growing season; Cellulose; Biofuels
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21676279]
- National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Project) [2014AA021905]
- 100 Talents Program of institute of process engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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The composition, cellulose degradability and biochemical methane potential (BMP) of M. sinensis, M. floridulus, Miscanthus x giganteus and M. lutarioriparius were investigated concomitantly at different growth/ harvest times during their growing season. For all the four species, there was only a slight change in the compositional content. Meanwhile there was a huge change in the BMP values. At the growth time of 60 days the BMPs ranged from 247.1 to 266.5 ml g(-1) VS. As growth time was prolonged, the BMPs decreased by 11-35%. For each species, the BMP was positively correlated to the cellulose degradability with the correlation coefficients (R-2) ranging from 0.8055 to 0.9925. This suggests that besides the biomass yield, it is justifiable to consider cellulose degradability when selecting the suitable harvest time for biofuels production from Miscanthus, especially in tropical and subtropical regions where Miscanthus can be harvested twice or more within a year. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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