期刊
BIOENERGY RESEARCH
卷 5, 期 2, 页码 306-318出版社
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DOI: 10.1007/s12155-011-9134-6
关键词
Ammonia fiber expansion pretreatment; Black locust; Bioethanol; Enzymatic hydrolysis; Hardwood
资金
- DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (DOE Office of Science BER) [DE-FC02-07ER64494]
Black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia L.), like willow and poplar, is a hardwood species which can be grown in coppice for bioenergy production, and because of its nitrogen-fixing ability, it can be cultivated with higher yields on less productive land. For these experiments, we examined the feasibility of using ammonia fiber expansion (AFEX) pretreatment to increase the saccharification yields from black locust grown for bioethanol production, as well as examine the impact of posttreatments (hot-water washing and additional size reduction) on sugar yields. The optimal AFEX conditions for black locust were 180A degrees C, 1.0 g NH3/g dry biomass, 2.5 g H2O/g dry biomass, for 30 min residence time, and of the parameters tested, temperature had the greatest impact on yields. Yields from the sample without posttreatment and hydrolyzed at the standard enzyme loading were very low: < 30% glucose and similar to 50% hemicellulose. Both hot-water washing and size reduction improved yields; however, size reduction had a more significant effect indicating that increasing enzyme accessibility is more important for digestibility as opposed to the removal of soluble inhibitors. The effect of size reduction was comparable to that obtained by quadrupling the enzyme loading, increasing glucose yields by similar to 20-30% and hemicellulose yields by similar to 20%. Untreated black locust is known to contain compounds which are inhibitory to both enzymes and microorganisms and AFEX pretreatment neutralizes this inhibitory effect to some extent.
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