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Continuous ethanol production by the synchronous saccharification and fermentation using food wastes

Department of Civil, Earth and Environmental Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 500-757, Korea 1Department of Maritime Environmental Engineering, Mokpo National Maritime University, Jeonnam 534-729, Korea
seongjun@jnu.ac.kr
Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, April 2011, 28(4), 1085-1089(5), 10.1007/s11814-010-0465-3
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Abstract

The synchronous saccharification and fermentation (SSF) by continuous fill and draw method was investigated in order to develop a continuous ethanol fermentation process using the food wastes (FW) available among Korea’s organic wastes. The activity of the hydrolytic enzymes was maintained constantly in the continuous culture by their intermittent addition together with medium exchange. The concentrations of reducing sugar in the culture were maintained at a steady state by regulating supplemented enzyme concentration and exchange rate of medium, reflecting on the consumption rate of reducing sugar caused by the fermentation. When the temperature of the SSF was maintained at the fixation of 35 oC, which enabled us to perform both enzymatic hydrolysis and enzyme fermentation simultaneously, the rate of reducing sugar consumption was 3.61 g/L-hr. For the enzymatic saccharification of FW, when 0.01 BGU as Viscozyme/g-FW and 0.05 AGU as Spirizyme Plus/g-FW were used, the production rate of reducing sugar was 3.93 g/L-hr, indicating a little higher rate of production than that of consumption. A decompression device with ethanol condensing ability was used to continuously pull out ethanol from the culture broth at .600 mmHg, where the ethanol evaporation ability would be maximized and the water evaporation minimized during the process. As a result of the continuous SSF performance, the reducing sugar concentration was maintained at around 30 g/L. The amylase activity was maintained at 8.93±2.17 U/mL. During a 352 hour culture, the whole ethanol productivity was 2.24 g/L-hr, indicating a considerable productivity compared with the other result reported in the continuous SSF.

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