One-pot bioethanol production from brewery spent grain using the ethanologenic Escherichia coli MS04

Evelyn Wagner, Estefanía Sierra-Ibarra, Natalia L. Rojas and Alfredo Martinez

Renewable Energy, 2022, vol. 189, issue C, 717-725

Abstract: Lignocellulosic biomass residues constitute an alternative for energy generation. In this work, brewery spent grain (BSG) were used as feedstock to produce ethanol using a recombinant Escherichia coli MS04 strain. A sequential process involving pretreatment, saccharification and fermentation steps in one-pot bioreactors, without solids removal, was proposed. Different diluted acid pretreatment times (1 and 1.5 h) using a 15% (w/w) solids load to obtain high monosaccharides yields were evaluated. After the pretreatment and saccharification, the proposed strategy converted the polysaccharides contained in BSG into fermentable pentoses and hexoses, obtaining a syrup composed by monosaccharides (60 g/L), furfural (0.39 g/L), hydroxymethylfurfural (0.07 g/L) and acetic acid (2.56 g/L), which was afterwards fermented for the bioethanol generation. After 30 h, ethanol production resulted in 29.5 ± 0.41 g/L, which means a volumetric productivity of 0.98 g EtOH/Lh based on the consumption of the glucose, xylose and arabinose. These results mean a global yield of 251 L EtOH/ton BSG of this feedstock and were accomplished without the inhibition caused by acetic acid formation (6.87 g/L). Furthermore, the proposed process in this work was developed in a sequential pathway, which comprises an operational advantage to exploit the BSG in the production of second-generation bioethanol.

Keywords: Lignocellulosic biomass; Brewery spent grain; Bioethanol; Sequential pretreatment-saccharification-fermentation; Ethanologenic Escherichia coli, acid pretreatment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2022.03.014

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