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Predictive Modelling of Sugar Release from Blended Garden Wastes in a Microwave-Assisted Hot Water Process

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Due to supply difficulties caused by seasonal availability, fuel ethanol production from a single lignocellulosic biomass species is always uneconomical at commercial scale. The utilization of blended biomass offers a potential solution to this problem. In this study, a prediction model was developed to evaluate the sugar release from blended garden wastes in a microwave-assisted hot water (MHW) process. The optimum blending ratio of Bauhinia blakeana Dunn (BB), rice straw (RS) and sugarcane bagasse (SC) was found to be 2:3:5, which promised a high total xylose yield of 67.82% (using a process temperature of 186 °C for 43 min). While the yield of xylose could only reach 52.47% when adopting the single garden waste of BB as feedstock under the same condition. Furthermore, the use of blended materials provided a cost savings of 22.23% as compared with the single RS feedstock, and no significant difference was found in the release of total xylose. The model developed was found to accurately predict the total xylose released from blended garden feedstocks. In addition, a steady supply of lignocellulosic biomass for fuel ethanol production could also be generated.

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This work was supported financially by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Number 51876206), the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (Grant Number 2018A030313012), Young Top-notch Talent of Guangdong Province, China (Grant Number 2016TQ03N647), Science and Technology Program of Guangzhou, China (Grant Numbers 201803030007, 201610010110), the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grand Number XDA21050400), the DNL Cooperation Fund, CAS (Grant Number DNL180305), the Open Fund of Guangdong Key Laboratory for Innovative Development and Utilization of Forest Plant Germplasm, South China Agricultural University, and the Youth Innovation Promotion Association, CAS (Grant Number 2015289).

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    Ruxue Bai, Wen Wang, Qiang Yu, Xiaoying Kong, Yongming Sun, Xinshu Zhuang, Zhongming Wang & Zhenhong Yuan

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Bai, R., Wang, W., Yu, Q. et al. Predictive Modelling of Sugar Release from Blended Garden Wastes in a Microwave-Assisted Hot Water Process. Waste Biomass Valor 12, 3009–3018 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12649-019-00932-2

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