Title
Pre-treatment by acidification and freezing on corncob polymers and its enzymatic hydrolysis
Date Issued
01 January 2018
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Asian Network for Scientific Information
Abstract
Background and Objective: Corncob contain high percentage of cellulose (40.95±0.38%), hemicellulose (38.94±1.72%) and low lignin content (16.54±0.38%) which has a great potential of bioconversion to bioethanol. The objective of this research was to evaluate the effect of acidification, freezing and the combination of these pre-treatments in corncob compounds and its enzymatic hydrolysis. Materials and Methods: It was evaluated the changes occured in macrostructure and lignocellulosic compounds after pre-treatments. Corncob fiber was pretreated by freezing at -20°C for 12 h; with 0.25 M sulfuric acid, pH 2.0, at 121°C for 20 min and by the combination of both pre-treatments. After pre-treatment, an enzymatic hydrolysis with 150 Ucellulase/gsubstrate in 10 mL of acetate was performed at 100 rpm, 37°C and pH 5.48 for 72 h. Data were analyzed by one-way analysis of variance using SPSS. Results: The combined pre-treatment (acidification and freezing) allowed to obtain the highest amount of cellulose (64.12±1.03%) and lignin (19.76±0.42%) and low amount of hemicellulose ( 10.16±1.42%) was determined. The optical microscopy analysis of samples with combined pre-treatment show partitioned and less agglomerated structure. Conclusion: The higher concentration of glucose (40.90±2.11 g LG1 ) was obtained by combined pre-treatment, which increased the enzyme efficiency with 57.41%, which could be approved for the conversion of high value products, like bioethanol.
Start page
222
End page
231
Volume
11
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Alimentos y bebidas
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85044006004
Source
Asian Journal of Scientific Research
ISSN of the container
19921454
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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