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标题：Pretreatment of microalgal biomass to improve the enzymatic hydrolysis of carbohydrates by ultrasonication: Yield vs energy consumption
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作者：Carlos Eduardo de Farias Silva ; Davide Meneghello ; Ana Karla de Souza Abud 等
期刊名称：Journal of King Saud University - Science
印刷版ISSN：1018-3647
出版年度：2020
卷号：32
期号：1
页码：606-613
DOI：10.1016/j.jksus.2018.09.007
语种：English
出版社：Elsevier
摘要：Graphical abstractDisplay OmittedAbstractMicroalgal biomass has been considered as a possible alternative source of carbohydrates and lipids in fermentative/reactional processes, called third generation of biofuels. Carbohydrates from microalgae are mostly composed by glucose and some pentose-derived polymers that must be hydrolyzed to be efficiently used. When enzymatic hydrolysis is applied a pretreatment is required. Sonication/ultrasonication is one of the most promising methods, and in this paper the influence of pretreatment time, sonication intensity and biomass concentration was validated, and the energy consumed in the process compared as well. Sonication intensity had the major role on the enzymatic accessibility. Pretreatment time can be used to decrease hydrolysis time. More than 90% of hydrolysis efficiency was reached when higher amplitude (sonication intensity) and pretreatment time were used. The applied energy influenced indirectly the hydrolysis process. The best saccharification/energy relation was reached when 50% of amplitude for 25 min was applied, obtaining 91% of hydrolysis yield and spending 2.4 MJ/kg of dry biomass.
关键词：Microalgae;Ethanol;Fermentation;Amylase;Cellulase;Sonication