• Title/Summary/Keyword: Bioethanol production

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Evaluation of Pitch Pine for Bioethanol Production by Organosolv Pretreatment (Organosolv 전처리를 통한 리기다소나무의 바이오에탄올 생산 적용성 평가)

  • Youe, Won-Jae;Kim, Yong Sik;Kang, Kyu-Young
    • Journal of Korea Technical Association of The Pulp and Paper Industry
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    • v.47 no.4
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    • pp.21-29
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    • 2015
  • In this study, the feasibility of utilizing wood chips from pitch pine (Pinus rigida) was evaluated for bioethanol production by an organosolv pretreatment and enzymatic saccharification. When wood chips from pitch wood were pretreated with 75% (v/v) ethanol and 1.7% sulfuric acid as a catalyst at H-factor 2000, average pulp yield was 43.3%, which pretreated wood fibers showed higher glucan (55.8%) and lower lignin (12.2%) contents than untreated control (43.9% glucan and 27.8% lignin). After enzymatic saccharification, the organosolv pulps with 56.2% delignification rate reached above 97% conversion rate of cellulose to glucose. These results indicated that increasing the delignification rate causes micro pores on the surface of organosolv pulps resulting in improved the accessibility of enzyme onto the substrate. Moreover, it was in agreement with the SEM examination of wood fibers.

A Research Trend of Pretreatment in Bioethanol Production Process with Lignocellulosic Biomass: A Literature Review (목질계 바이오에탄올 생산의 전처리 기술에 관한 연구동향)

  • Kim, Yeong-Suk
    • Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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    • v.37 no.3
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    • pp.274-286
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    • 2009
  • Lignocellulosic biomass is the most abundant raw material for bioconversion in many country. However the high costs for pretreatment and enzymatic hydrolysis currently deter commercialization of lignocellulosic biomass, especially wood biomass which is considered as the most recalcitrant material for enzymatic hydrolysis mainly due to the high lignified structure and the nature of the lignin component. Therefore, overcoming recalcitrance of lignocellulosic biomass for converting carbohydrates into intermediates that can subsequently be converted into biobased fuels and biobased products is the primary technical and economic challenge for bioconversion process. This study was mainly reviewed on the research trend of pretreatment with lignocellulosic biomass in bioethanol production process.

Bioethanol Production Using Lignocellulosic Biomass-review Part 2. Saccharification and fermentation of biomass for generating ethanol

  • Sheikh, Mominul Islam;Kim, Chul-Hwan;Yesmin, Shabina;Lee, Ji-Yong;Kim, Gyeong-Chul;Ahn, Byeong-Il;Kim, Sung-Ho;Park, Hyeon-Jin
    • Journal of Korea Technical Association of The Pulp and Paper Industry
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    • v.42 no.5
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    • pp.15-23
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    • 2010
  • Bio-ethanol is the most potential next generation automotive fuel for reducing both consumption of crude oil and environmental pollution from renewable resources such as wood, forest residuals, agricultural leftovers and urban wastes. Lignocellulosic based materials can be broken down into individual sugars. Therefore, saccharification is one of the important steps for producing sugars, such as 6-C glucose, galactose, mannose and 5-C xylose, mannose and rhamnose. These sugars can be further broken down and fermented into ethanol. The main objective of this research is to study the feasibility and optimize saccharification and fermentation process for the conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to low cost bioethanol.

Bioethanol Production Based on Lignocellulosic Biomass with Pichia stipitis (Pichia stipitis를 이용한 리그노셀룰로스계 바이오매스 기반의 바이오에탄올 생산)

  • Bae, Yang-Won;Seong, Pil-Je;Cho, Dae-Haeng;Shin, Soo-Jeong;Kim, Seung-Wook;Han, Sung-Ok;Kim, Yong-Hwan;Park, Chul-Hwan
    • KSBB Journal
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    • v.25 no.6
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    • pp.533-538
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    • 2010
  • We investigated the effect of inhibitory compounds derived lignocellulosic hydrolysates on cell growth, sugar consumption and ethanol productivity, and also we intended to identify the potential for ethanol production based on lignocellulosic hydrolysates. Cell growth and ethanol production in the presence of acetate were initiated after 12 hr. Furans showed a longer lag time and phenolics showed a significant effect on strain and ethanol production in comparison to other model compounds. In the case of lignocellulosic hydrolysates, the acetate strongly affected cell growth and ethanol production.

Improvement of a Unified Saccharification and Fermentation System for Agaro-bioethanol Production in Yeast

  • Lee, So-Eun;Kim, Yeon-Hee
    • Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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    • v.48 no.1
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    • pp.32-37
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    • 2020
  • We improved on a unified saccharification and fermentation (USF) system for the direct production of ethanol from agarose by increasing total agarase activity. The pGMFα-NGH plasmid harboring the NABH558 gene encoding neoagarobiose hydrolase and the AGAG1 and AGAH71 genes encoding β-agarase was constructed and used to transform Saccharomyces cerevisiae 2805. NABH558 gene transcription level was increased and total agarase activity was increased by 25 to 40% by placing the NABH558 gene expression cassette upstream of the other gene expression cassettes. In the 2805/pGMFα-NGH transformant, three secretory agarases were produced that efficiently degraded agarose to galactose, 3,6-anhydro-L-galactose (AHG), neoagarobiose, and neoagarohexaose. During the united cultivation process, a maximum of 2.36 g/l ethanol from 10 g/l agarose was produced over 120 h.

A Research Trend on Utilization of the Byproducts(Lignin) from Bioethanol Production Process with Lignocellulosic Biomass: A Literature Review (목질바이오매스 에너지 부산물(리그닌)이용에 관한 연구 동향)

  • Kim, Yeong-Suk
    • Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.183-194
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    • 2011
  • This study reviewed on the research trend of sources and utilization of the byproducts(Lignin) from bioethanol production process with lignocellulosic biomass such as wood, agri-processing by-products(corn fiber, sugarcane bagasse etc.) and energy crops(switch grass, poplar, Miscanthus etc.). During biochemical conversion process, only Cellulose and hemicellulosic fractions are converted into fermentable sugar, but lignin which represents the third largest fraction of lignocellulosic biomass is not convertible into fermentable sugars. It is therefore extremely important to recover and convert biomass-derived Lignin into high-value products to maintain economic competitiveness of cellulosic ethanol processes. It was introduced that lignin types and characteristics were different from various isolation methods and biomass sources. Also utilization and potentiality for market of those were discussed.

A Research Trend of Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Lignocellulosic Biomass : A Literature Review (목질바이오매스의 효소 당화 기술에 관한 연구 동향)

  • Kim, Yeong-Suk
    • Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.137-148
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    • 2010
  • The high costs for ethanol production with lignocellulosic biomass as a second generation energy materials currently deter commercialization of lignocellulosic biomass, especially wood biomass which is considered as the most recalcitrant material for enzymatic hydrolysis mainly due to the high lignified structure and the nature of the lignin component. Therefore, overcoming recalcitrance of lignocellulosic biomass for converting carbohydrates into sugar that can subsequently be converted into biobased fuels and biobased products is the primary technical and economic challenge for bioconversion process. This study was mainly reviewed on the research trend of the enhancement of enzymatic hydrolysis for lignocellulosic biomass after pretreatment in bioethanol production process.