Journal
MOLECULES
Volume 23, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/molecules23061310
Keywords
oil palmmesocarp fiber; subcritical H2O-CO2; pretreatment; xylooligosaccharides; glucose
Funding
- Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development (SATREPS)
- Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
- Universiti Putra Malaysia
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The present work aimed to investigate the pretreatment of oil palm mesocarp fiber (OPMF) in subcritical H2O-CO2 at a temperature range from 150-200 degrees C and 20-180 min with CO2 pressure from 3-5 MPa. The pretreated solids and liquids from this process were separated by filtration and characterized. Xylooligosaccharides (XOs), sugar monomers, acids, furans and phenols in the pretreated liquids were analyzed by using HPLC. XOs with a degree of polymerization X2-X4 comprising xylobiose, xylotriose, xylotetraose were analyzed by using HPAEC-PAD. Enzymatic hydrolysis was performed on cellulose-rich pretreated solids to observe xylose and glucose production. An optimal condition for XOs production was achieved at 180 degrees C, 60 min, 3 MPa and the highest XOs obtained was 81.60 mg/g which corresponded to 36.59% of XOs yield from total xylan of OPMF. The highest xylose and glucose yields obtained from pretreated solids were 29.96% and 84.65%, respectively at cellulase loading of 10 FPU/g-substrate.
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