Hydrolysis of sweet sorghum bagasse and eucalyptus wood chips with liquid hot water

Yu, Q. and Zhuang, X. and Wang, Q. and Qi, W. and Tan, X. and Yuan, Z. (2012) Hydrolysis of sweet sorghum bagasse and eucalyptus wood chips with liquid hot water. Bioresource Technology. pp. 1-25.

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Abstract

The chemical composition, hydrolysis products, and kinetics during liquid hot water pretreatment of sweet sorghum bagasse (SSB) and eucalyptus wood chips (EWC) were investigated. Under optimal conditions, a total xylose recovery of 79.6 and 55.6% for SSB and of 74.9 and 84.4% for EWC was achieved after pretreatments in a step-change flow rate reactor (184 °C, 20 ml/min, 8 min, and 10 ml/min, 10 min) and batch stirred reactor (184 °C, 5% w/v, 18 min), respectively. More than 90% of the xylose was recovered as oligomers from SSB, independent of the type of reactor employed. The activation energies of xylan decomposition of SSB in the step-change flow rate reactor was 6.5-fold greater than that of EWC in the batch stirred reactor due to accumulation of acidic products. These findings show that sugar recovery is dependent on the reactor configuration for specific substrates.

Item Type: Article
Author Affiliation: Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Key Laboratory of Renewable Energy and Gas Hydrate, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China
Subjects: Crop Improvement
Plant Physiology and Biochemistry > Biochemistry
Divisions: Sorghum
Depositing User: Mr. SanatKumar Behera
Date Deposited: 27 Apr 2012 09:24
Last Modified: 27 Apr 2012 09:25
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2012.04.031
URI: http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/4993

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