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Concentrating lignocellulosic hydrolysate by evaporation and its fermentation by repeated fedbatch using flocculating Saccharomyces cerevisiae

In order to obtain a sugar concentration of more than 100g.l-1of fermentable sugars, aspruce wood hydrolysate was subjected to high pressure and vacuum concentration andthe fermentability of each hydrolysate was assessed by fermentation experiments withflocculating S. cerevisiae. The hypothesis that high pressure evaporated hydrolysate(evaporation carried out at 108°C and 1.3 bar) would be more difficult to ferment thanvacuum evaporated hydrolysate (evaporation carried out at 80°C and 0.5 bar) was notconfirmed by the results. Minor amount of cells lost their flocculating ability afterfermentation which their ratio and their viability and vitality was assessed.By vacuum and high pressure concentration, the fermentable sugars (defined as theconcentration of glucose, mannose and galactose) in the hydrolysates reached to 120g.l-1and 129g.l-1 respectively. Compared to the initial hydrolysate the concentration factorrepresented a 3-fold increase of fermentable sugars. Furfural was evaporated in both trialsand its concentration reached to 0.03g.l-1 and 0.1g.l-1 after vacuum and high pressureevaporation respectively. Fermentation with both 0.14h-1and 0.22h-1 initial dilution rateswas possible, while more than 96% of furfural and to less extent formic and acetic acidsdisappeared from the hydrolyzates. However, HMF and levulinic acid remained in thehydrolyzates and concentrated proportionally. More than 84% of the fermentable sugarspresent in VEH were fermented by fed-batch cultivation using 12g.l-1 yeast and initialdilution rate (ID) of 0.22h-1, and resulted into 0.40±0.01g.g-1 ethanol in 21h.Fermentation of HPEH was as successful as VEH and resulted into more than 86% of thesugar consumption at the corresponding conditions. With an ID of 0.14h-1, more than97% of the total fermentable sugars were consumed, and ethanol yielded 0.44±0.01g.g-1.A viability and vitality determination from the supernatant of fermentation liquorrepresented that about 76% of the cells which lost their flocculating ability kept theirvitality. Cultivation of yeast with beet molasses was tricky in both batch and fed-batchcultivation as the concentration more than 50g.l-1 in batch cultivation prevent from yeastgrowing. / Uppsatsnivå: D

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:hb-19095
Date January 2008
CreatorsDehkhoda, Anahita
PublisherHögskolan i Borås, Institutionen Ingenjörshögskolan, University of Borås/School of Engineering
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
RelationMagisteruppsats,

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