Glucose production by hydrolysis of starch under hydrothermal conditions

✍ Scribed by Makiko Nagamori; Toshitaka Funazukuri

• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 139 KB
• Volume: 79
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0268-2575
• DOI: 10.1002/jctb.976

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Starch was converted into glucose by hydrolysis with water under hydrothermal conditions at 453–513 K in a small batch reactor. The major product was glucose; oligomers having various degrees of polymerization, maltose, fructose, 5‐hydroxymethylfurfural and furfural were also produced. The maximum yield of glucose obtained was 630 g kg^−1^ on the carbon basis at 473 K and 30 min, where the quantity of carbon unrecovered was about 50 g kg^−1^, and the production of char and gaseous products was negligible. Copyright © 2004 Society of Chemical Industry