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Steam Explosion Pretreatment of Beechwood. Part 1: Comparison of the Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Washed Solids and Whole Pretreatment Slurry at Different Solid Loadings

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  • Robert Balan

    (School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences HAFL, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Laenggasse 85, 3052 Zollikofen, Switzerland)

  • Andrzej Antczak

    (Institute of Wood Sciences and Furniture, Warsaw University of Life Sciences-SGGW, 159 Nowoursynowska St., 02-776 Warsaw, Poland)

  • Simone Brethauer

    (School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences HAFL, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Laenggasse 85, 3052 Zollikofen, Switzerland)

  • Tomasz Zielenkiewicz

    (Institute of Wood Sciences and Furniture, Warsaw University of Life Sciences-SGGW, 159 Nowoursynowska St., 02-776 Warsaw, Poland)

  • Michael H. Studer

    (School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences HAFL, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Laenggasse 85, 3052 Zollikofen, Switzerland)

Abstract

Steam explosion is a well-known process to pretreat lignocellulosic biomass in order to enhance sugar yields in enzymatic hydrolysis, but pretreatment conditions have to be optimized individually for each material. In this study, we investigated how the results of a pretreatment optimization procedure are influenced by the chosen reaction conditions in the enzymatic hydrolysis. Beechwood was pretreated by steam explosion and the resulting biomass was subjected to enzymatic hydrolysis at glucan loadings of 1% and 5% employing either washed solids or the whole pretreatment slurry. For enzymatic hydrolysis in both reaction modes at a glucan loading of 1%, the glucose yields markedly increased with increasing severity and with increasing pretreatment temperature at identical severities and maximal values were reached at a pretreatment temperature of 230 °C. However, the optimal severity was 5.0 for washed solids enzymatic hydrolysis, but only 4.75 for whole slurry enzymatic hydrolysis. When the glucan loading was increased to 5%, glucose yields hardly increased for pretreatment temperatures between 210 and 230 °C at a given severity, and a pretreatment temperature of 220 °C was sufficient under these conditions. Consequently, it is important to precisely choose the desired conditions of the enzymatic hydrolysis reaction, when aiming to optimize the pretreatment conditions for a certain biomass.

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  • Robert Balan & Andrzej Antczak & Simone Brethauer & Tomasz Zielenkiewicz & Michael H. Studer, 2020. "Steam Explosion Pretreatment of Beechwood. Part 1: Comparison of the Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Washed Solids and Whole Pretreatment Slurry at Different Solid Loadings," Energies, MDPI, vol. 13(14), pages 1-15, July.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:13:y:2020:i:14:p:3653-:d:384885
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    1. Merve Nazli Borand & Asli Isler Kaya & Filiz Karaosmanoglu, 2020. "Saccharification Yield through Enzymatic Hydrolysis of the Steam-Exploded Pinewood," Energies, MDPI, vol. 13(17), pages 1-12, September.
    2. Guadalupe Pérez & Jorge M. Islas-Samperio & Genice K. Grande-Acosta & Fabio Manzini, 2022. "Socioeconomic and Environmental Aspects of Traditional Firewood for Cooking on the Example of Rural and Peri-Urban Mexican Households," Energies, MDPI, vol. 15(13), pages 1-30, July.
    3. Simone Brethauer & Andrzej Antczak & Robert Balan & Tomasz Zielenkiewicz & Michael H. Studer, 2020. "Steam Explosion Pretreatment of Beechwood. Part 2: Quantification of Cellulase Inhibitors and Their Effect on Avicel Hydrolysis," Energies, MDPI, vol. 13(14), pages 1-17, July.

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