Water hyacinth is a raw material for long-term sustainable production of cellulosics ethanol. In this study, the acid pretreatment and enzymatic hydrolysis were used to evaluate to produce more sugar, to be fermented ...Water hyacinth is a raw material for long-term sustainable production of cellulosics ethanol. In this study, the acid pretreatment and enzymatic hydrolysis were used to evaluate to produce more sugar, to be fermented to ethanol. Separated hydrolysis and fermentation （SHF） studies were carried out to produce ethanol from water hyacinth leaves. Dilute sulfuric acid pretreatment and enzymatic hydrolysis were conducted to select the optimum pretreatment conditions. The optimum pretreatment conditions included T = 135 ℃, t = 30 min, and sulfuric acid concentration = 0.1 M. The residue was enzymatically hydrolyzed using the mixture of enzymes cellulase, xylanase and pectinase. The maximum enzymatic saccharification of cellulosic material （76.8%） was achieved. SHF by mono-culture of Saccharomyces cerevisiae KM1195 achieved the highest yields of ethanol. Furthermore, ethanol production was accomplished with the co-culture ofS. cerevisiae TISTR5048 and Candida tropicalis TISTR5045 which produced the highest increase in ethanol Yield. In this case, the ethanol concentration of 3.42 （g/L）, percentage of the theoretical ethanol yield of 99.9%, the ethanol yield of 0.27 g/g and the productivity of 0.22 g/L/h were obtained. This suggested that mild acid pretreatment and co-cultureare promising methods to improve enzymatic hydrolysis and ethanol production from water hyacinth.展开更多
文摘Water hyacinth is a raw material for long-term sustainable production of cellulosics ethanol. In this study, the acid pretreatment and enzymatic hydrolysis were used to evaluate to produce more sugar, to be fermented to ethanol. Separated hydrolysis and fermentation （SHF） studies were carried out to produce ethanol from water hyacinth leaves. Dilute sulfuric acid pretreatment and enzymatic hydrolysis were conducted to select the optimum pretreatment conditions. The optimum pretreatment conditions included T = 135 ℃, t = 30 min, and sulfuric acid concentration = 0.1 M. The residue was enzymatically hydrolyzed using the mixture of enzymes cellulase, xylanase and pectinase. The maximum enzymatic saccharification of cellulosic material （76.8%） was achieved. SHF by mono-culture of Saccharomyces cerevisiae KM1195 achieved the highest yields of ethanol. Furthermore, ethanol production was accomplished with the co-culture ofS. cerevisiae TISTR5048 and Candida tropicalis TISTR5045 which produced the highest increase in ethanol Yield. In this case, the ethanol concentration of 3.42 （g/L）, percentage of the theoretical ethanol yield of 99.9%, the ethanol yield of 0.27 g/g and the productivity of 0.22 g/L/h were obtained. This suggested that mild acid pretreatment and co-cultureare promising methods to improve enzymatic hydrolysis and ethanol production from water hyacinth.
