Second-generation ethanol process for integral use of hemicellulosic and cellulosic hydrolysates from diluted sulfuric acid pretreatment of sugarcane bagasse

• Autor(a) principal: Dionísio, S. R.
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Santoro, D. C.J., Bonan, C. I.D.G., Soares, L. B., Biazi, L. E., Rabelo, S. C. [UNESP], Ienczak, J. L.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2021.121290; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/221958
• topic: C5+C6 separated fermentation; Cell recycle; Diluted acid pretreatment; Sugarcane bagasse

In this work, a strategy to promote ethanol fermentation through the complete utilization of fermentable sugars released from sugarcane bagasse was proposed. Initially, the sugarcane bagasse was subjected to a diluted sulfuric acid pretreatment, leading to 89.5% of hemicellulose solubilization, in which 82% was recovered as monomeric sugars (xylose and arabinose) in the liquid stream. The cellulignin obtained was subjected to enzymatic hydrolysis, resulting in 51.2 and 95.08% of cellulose and hemicellulose yields, respectively. The C5-rich hemicellulosic hydrolysate was fermented to ethanol by the pentose-fermenting yeast Spathaspora passalidarum NRRL Y-27907, achieving an ethanol yield of 86.11%. The C6-rich enzymatic hydrolysate, on the other hand, was fermented by Saccharomyces cerevisiae CAT-1 through the application of a cell-recycle batch fermentation system. This strategy improved the overall fermentation performance throughout the cycles, with a substantial increase in the ethanol productivity of 361% from the first to the last batch. Based on a mass balance with input of 1000 kg of sugarcane bagasse and taking into account a complete pentose and hexose fermentation, 191.96 kg of ethanol could be produced from this integrated platform, which corresponded to 243.3 L of ethanol.