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... The consolidation of cellulosic ethanol on the market is fundamental to mitigate the consumption of fuels from fossil sources and to reduce the impact caused by the large generation of agro-industrial waste. In order to achieve this objective, some challenges of cellulosic ethanol technology must be overcome, including the improvement of the cellulosic ethanol production steps. Several studies pro ...
cellulases, etc ; Pseudomonas taetrolens; biocatalysis; cellobiose; cellulose; genetic engineering; glucose; oxidoreductases; prices; temperature; value added; waste paper; Show all 12 Subjects
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... To expand the applications of waste paper (WP), we attempted to valorize waste office paper (WOP) into cellobionic acid (CBA) using a two-step biocatalytic method. First, we prepared cellobiose from WOP using commercial cellulases. To increase cellobiose production, we optimized various reaction conditions; the type of cellulases, reaction temperature, the amount of WOP, and the amount of cellulas ...
... Response surface methodology (RSM) was adopted to optimize aqueous ammonia pretreatment and enzymatic saccharification of corn stover for enhancing sugars production, respectively. Pretreatment variables including pretreatment temperature, aqueous ammonia concentration and pretreatment time and saccharification variables including reaction time, enzyme loading and biomass loading were successfully ...
cellulases, etc ; Lewis acids; biorefining; cellulose; enzymatic hydrolysis; hydrolysates; hydrolysis; hydrophobicity; lignin; lignocellulose; models; phenolic compounds; saccharification; sugars; toxicity; wheat straw; Show all 16 Subjects
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... The lignin-derived phenolics are highly inhibitory toward lignocellulose enzymatic hydrolysis, while the relationship between phenolic structure and inhibitory effect is still not fully understood. In this study, the compositions of phenolics from dilute acid pretreated wheat straw were analyzed and their impact on cellulose hydrolysis was studied. With increase of pretreatment severity, more toxi ...
cellulases, etc ; Amaranthus; adsorption; bioethanol; biomass; carbon; energy crops; enzymatic hydrolysis; ethanol production; fermentation; fuel production; lignocellulose; models; perennials; polymers; porosity; protein supplements; saccharification; starch; straw; yeasts; Show all 21 Subjects
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... Amaranthus is a fast-growing perennial plant containing large amounts of extractable green proteins and lignocellulose residues. However, it remains to explore optimal Amaranthus biomass process technology for biofuel production. In this study, we examined that mild alkali and acid pretreatments (1% NaOH, 2% H₂SO₄) were sufficient for near-complete biomass enzymatic saccharification, while 8% Amar ...
Daniel Granato; Marina Fidelis; Marjo Haapakoski; Amanda dos Santos Lima; Janeli Viil; Jarkko Hellström; Reelika Rätsep; Hedi Kaldmäe; Uko Bleive; Luciana Azevedo; Varpu Marjomäki; Alexander Zharkovsky; Nora Pap
... The effects of commercial enzymes (pectinases, cellulases, beta-1-3-glucanases, and pectin lyases) on the recovery of anthocyanins and polyphenols from blackcurrant press cake were studied considering two solid:solvent ratios (1:10 and 1:4 w/v). β-glucanase enabled the recovery of the highest total phenolic content – 1142 mg/100 g, and the extraction of anthocyanins was similar using all enzymes ( ...
cellulases, etc ; amino acids; bioactive properties; bioavailability; biomass; breads; carotenoids; cell walls; chickens; chlorophyll; digestibility; feed supplements; health promotion; homogenization; human health; humans; microalgae; phycocyanin; polyphenols; polysaccharides; sheep; yogurt; Show all 22 Subjects
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... Algae are aquatic organisms rich in several biocompounds, and major ones are proteins and amino acids, carbohydrates and polysaccharides, lipids and fatty acids, pigments like chlorophyll, carotenoid, and phycocyanin, vitamins, minerals, and polyphenols that exhibit multiple beneficial effects on human health. These compounds are present in high concentrations in raw algal biomass, but some of the ...
cellulases, etc ; Clostridium beijerinckii; biobutanol; biorefining; butanol; chemical composition; enzymatic hydrolysis; esterification; ethanol; experimental design; feedstocks; fermentation; fractionation; glucans; hot water treatment; microwave treatment; molecular weight; pectins; sugar beet pulp; temperature; Show all 20 Subjects
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... The complete valorisation of sugar beet pulp (SBP) through pectooligosaccharides (POS) extraction and biobutanol production was studied. A central composite experimental design was planned to optimise the time and temperature of the hydrothermal microwave-assisted extraction. 59.7% of the POS present in the SBP were recovered, and a prehydrolysate with 31.1 g POS/L was obtained under optimal condi ...
cellulases, etc ; bioethanol; capital; corn; energy; ethanol; ethanol production; fermentation; glucose; glycerol; transcriptome; transcriptomics; viscosity; Show all 13 Subjects
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... In-situ corn fiber conversion enables to greenly convert corn fiber into bioethanol with saving energy and capital expenditure. However, the remaining challenge is to understand how the additive cellulases improve substrate utilization efficiency but reduce the side-product glycerol concentration. Herein, we investigated a comprehensive responses pattern of cellulases-assisted ethanol production o ...
cellulases, etc ; biomass; catalytic activity; cellulose; glucose; hydrolysis; lignocellulose; polymerization; polymers; sulfonic acids; surface area; Show all 11 Subjects
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... Effective hydrolysis of cellulose to glucose is a crucial step to produce fuels and chemicals from lignocellulosic biomass. Solid acids are promising alternatives of cellulases and homogenous acids for hydrolyzing cellulose. In this study, porous polymeric solid acids bearing hydroxyl and sulfonic acid groups were fabricated for cellulose hydrolysis in water through the low-cost Friedel-Crafts “kn ...
cellulases, etc ; Sporocytophaga; biodegradation; catabolism; cellobiose; cellulose; community structure; genes; hydrolysates; ion exchange chromatography; metagenomics; microorganisms; Show all 12 Subjects
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... To reveal the dynamic process of cellulose biodegradation and explore more potential cellulases, a microbiota (FPDM) with cellulose-degrading ability was cultivated, and different stages of filter paper degradation were compared. Ion chromatography and comparative metagenomic sequencing revealed that the diversity of FPDM enhanced as the hydrolysate length diversity increased. Sporocytophaga and C ...
... This study performed a prior delignification with sodium chlorite treatment on sugarcane straw and coffee husk waste, followed by alkaline treatment strategies; aiming at the increase cellulose recovery efficiency and the decrease of chemical consumption process. This study also explored an effective approach in the use of the cellulose recovery fraction for the enzymatic production of short chain ...
... Filamentous fungi are prolific producers of carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes) and important agents that carry out plant cell wall degradation in natural environments. The number of fungal species is frequently reported in the millions range, with a huge diversity and genetic variability, reflecting on a vast repertoire of CAZymes that these organisms can produce. In this study, we evaluated th ...
... Bioenergy crops provide enormous renewable biomass resources convertible for biofuel production, but lignocellulose recalcitrance fundamentally determines its enzymatic saccharification at high cost and low efficiency. In this study, total 30 diverse Miscanthus lignocellulose substrates were incubated with T. reesei strain to secret lignocellulose-degradation enzymes, and their major wall polymers ...
cellulases, etc ; adsorption; bioethanol; cellulose; energy; enzymatic hydrolysis; feedstocks; lignin; lignocellulose; molecular weight; value added; water solubility; Show all 12 Subjects
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... From energy perspective, with abundant polysaccharides (45–85%), the renewable lignocellulosic is recognized as the 2nd generation feedstock for bioethanol and bio-based products production. Enzymatic hydrolysis is a critical pathway to yield fermentable monosaccharides from pretreated substrates of lignocellulose. Nevertheless, the lignin presence in lignocellulosic substrates leads to the low su ...
... Hot springs ecosystem is the most ancient continuously inhabited ecosystem on earth which harbors diverse thermophilic bacteria and archaea distributed worldwide. Life in extreme environments is very challenging so there is a great potential biological dark matter and their adaptation to harsh environments eventually producing thermostable enzymes which are very vital for the welfare of mankind. T ...
cellulases, etc ; acetates; biomass production; corn stover; extremophiles; glucose; microalgae; phycocyanin; research; specific growth rate; syrups; xylose; Show all 12 Subjects
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... The production of cell mass and phycocyanin (PC) was evaluated with the extremophile microalgae Galdieria sulphuraria 2919, under mixotrophic and heterotrophic conditions, in media supplemented with glucose, xylose, or a mixture of both sugars, and hemicellulosic and cellulosic hydrolysates from corn stover. Compared to xylose, cultivations with glucose under heterotrophic conditions showed 51%, 4 ...
Josman Velasco; Vanessa de Oliveira Arnoldi Pellegrini; Ana Gabriela Veiga Sepulchro; Marco Antonio Seiki Kadowaki; Melissa Cristina Espirito Santo; Igor Polikarpov; Fernando Segato
... Lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs) have been introduced into industrial cocktails used for biomass saccharification due to their capacity to boost enzymatic conversion of recalcitrant cellulose. The genome of the thermotolerant ascomycete Aspergillus fumigatus encodes 7 genes for LPMOs that belong to auxiliary activity family 9 (AA9). Here, we cloned, successfully expressed and performed ...
... Environmental bioremediation relies heavily on the realized potential of efficient bioremediation agents or microbial strains of interest. Identifying suitable microbial agents for plant biomass waste valorization requires (i) high-quality genome assemblies to predict the full metabolic and functional potential, (ii) accurate mapping of lignocellulose metabolizing enzymes. However, fragmented natu ...
... This work studied the fractionation of sugarcane bagasse via Organosolv treatment using isopropanol/water in the presence of Raney-Ni and molybdenum carbide catalysts (Bulk Mo₂C and Mo₂C supported on activated carbon (AC) or Al₂O₃). The degree of delignification, the bio-oil and solid residue composition depended on the type of catalyst. A partial extraction of hemicellulose occurred followed by d ...