Journal
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 102, Issue 10, Pages 5995-6004Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2011.02.049
Keywords
Corn; Xylose; Enzymes; Bioethanol; Fermentation
Funding
- Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs
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Three corn feedstocks (fibers, cobs and stover) available for sustainable second generation bioethanol production were subjected to pretreatments with the aim of preventing formation of yeast-inhibiting sugar-degradation products. After pretreatment, monosaccharides, soluble oligosaccharides and residual sugars were quantified. The size of the soluble xylans was estimated by size exclusion chromatography. The pretreatments resulted in relatively low monosaccharide release, but conditions were reached to obtain most of the xylan-structures in the soluble part. A state of the art commercial enzyme preparation, Cellic CTec2, was tested in hydrolyzing these dilute acid-pretreated feedstocks. The xylose and glucose liberated were fermented by a recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain. In the simultaneous enzymatic saccharification and fermentation system employed, a concentration of more than 5% (v/v) (0.2 g per g of dry matter) of ethanol was reached. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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