bioethanol production from dilute acid pretreated indian bamboo variety by separate hydrolysis and fermentation
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Bioethanol from lignocellulosic biomass can be utilized for clean and renewable energy production. Bamboo
(BM) was used as a feed stock for the production of bioethanol after dilute acid pretreatment and
enzymatic saccharification. In this study different mineral and organic acids were screened to select
the best pretreatment agent. Dilute H2SO4 was selected and the effectiveness of pretreatment was
evaluated by enzymatic saccharification. Parameters like acid concentration, biomass loading and incubation
time were optimized by adopting a Taguchi design. Under optimized pretreatment conditions
0.319 g/g of reducing sugar was produced. The effect of various process parameters affecting enzymatic
saccharification like solid loading, enzyme loading, incubation time and surfactant concentration on
enzymatic hydrolysis was studied using a response surface method according to Box–Behnken design.
Under optimized hydrolysis conditions – 11.25% (w/w) of biomass loading, 50 FPU of commercial cellulase,
0.125% (w/w) of Tween-80 as surfactant and 42 h of incubation, 0.651 g/g of reducing sugar was
produced. Physicochemical characterizations of native and dilute acid pretreated BM were carried out
by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and there were morphological differences between the native
and pretreated sample. Model validation showed a good agreement between experimental results and
the predicted responses. Fermentation of the enzymatic hydrolysed liquid from the pretreated biomass
using S. cerevisiae showed bioethanol yield of 1.76% (v/v) with an efficiency of 41.69%.