Ethanol production from wood hydrolysates usingPachysolen tannophilus

✍ Scribed by K. F. Deverell

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1983
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 392 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0141-5492
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00132231

✦ Synopsis

The sugars in wood hydrolysates were fermented to ethanol using PachysoLen tannophitus.

Batch fermentations were complete within 36 hours using unaerated cultures at 11 g/l yeast concentration. A Pinusradiata"beer" medium containing mostly xylose gave 0.33 g ethanol/g sugar consumed. The yield from an aspen hydrolysate containing a mixture of hexose and pentose sugars was 0.43 g ethanol/g sugar consumed.