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There is an increasing worldwide interest in bioethanol production from agricultural, industrial, and urban residues for both ecological and economic reasons. The acid hydrolysis of cassava pulp to reducing sugars and their fermentation to ethanol were evaluated in a fibrousbed bioreactor with immobilized Δldh, a genetically engineered Thermoanaerobacterium aotearoense. A maximum yield of total reducing sugars of 53.5% was obtained after 8 h of hydrolysis at 85oC in 0.4 mol/L hydrochloric acid with a solid-to-liquid ratio of 1:20, which was optimized by using an orthogonal design based on preliminary experiments. In the FBB, the fed-batch fermentation, using glucose as the sole carbon source, gave a maximum ethanol production of 38.3 g/L with a yield of 0.364 g/g in 100 h; whereas the fed-batch fermentation, using xylose as the sole carbon source, gave 34.1 g/L ethanol with a yield of 0.342 g/g in 135 h. When cassava pulp hydrolysate was used as a carbon source, 39.1 g/L ethanol with a yield of 0.123 g/g cassava pulp in185 h was observed, using the fed-batch fermentation model. In addition, for repeated batch fermentation of cassava pulp hydrolysate carried out in the fibrous-bed bioreactor, long-term operation with high ethanol yield and volumetric productivity were achieved. The above results show that the acid hydrolysate of cassava pulp can be used for ethanol production in a fibrous-bed bioreactor, although some inhibition phenomena were observed during the process of fermentation.
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Cai, YH., Liang, ZX., Li, S. et al. Bioethanol from fermentation of cassava pulp in a fibrous-bed bioreactor using immobilized Δldh, a genetically engineered Thermoanaerobacterium aotearoense . Biotechnol Bioproc E 17, 1270–1277 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12257-012-0405-7
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