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Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering >> 2008, Volume 2, Issue 4 doi: 10.1007/s11705-008-0072-6

Ethanol production from sweet sorghum residual

College of Life Science and Technology, Beijing Key Laboratory of Bioprocess, Beijing University of Chemical Technology;

Available online: 2008-12-05
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In this work, the ethanol production from sweet sorghum residue was studied. Sweet sorghum residue was hydrolyzed with phosphoric acid under mild conditions. The liquid hydrolysate was fermented by , and the hydrolysis residue was fermented by the simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (SSF) using with cellulase (60 FPU/g dry materials). Orthogonal experiments were carried out to investigate the effects of main reaction condition factors, such as temperature, acid concentration, time and dry-matter content, on the reducing sugar yield. The results show that the optimal reaction conditions should be 120°C, 80 g/L, 80 min and 10%, respectively. Under these conditions, 0.3024 g reducing sugar/g dry material was obtained. The liquid hydrolysate was then fermented by with the highest ethanol concentration of 14.5 g/L. At a water-insoluble solid concentration of 5%, 5.4 g/L ethanol was obtained after 12 h of SSF. The total ethanol yield was 0.147 g/g dry material, which would be beneficial for the application of ethanol production from sweet sorghum residue.

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