Open AccessModerate pretreatment strategies for improvement of reducing sugar production from oil palm empty fruit bunches
Author(s) -
Budi Mandra Harahap,
Muhammad Rifqi Maulid,
Awaly Ilham Dewantoro,
Efri Mardawati,
Syamsul Huda
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/443/1/012081
Subject(s) - hemicellulose , acetic acid , yield (engineering) , sugar , reducing sugar , chemistry , cellulose , fermentation , hydrolysis , food science , xylose , pulp and paper industry , biochemistry , materials science , engineering , metallurgy
Pretreatment at mild condition is the strategy to minimize energy consumption, to reduce toxic compounds influencing to further process, and to obtain the high reducing sugar yield as fermentation substrate from cellulose and hemicellulose of oil palm empty fruit bunches (OPEFB). The yield still could be increased by optimizing pretreatment condition and varying several process alternatives. In this study, the effect of acetic acid addition and its corresponding concentration (5–15%), pretreatment temperature (115–125 °C), time (60–90 minutes), and two-stage pretreatment (0.01–1M NaOH pretreatment followed by autohydrolysis and autohydrolysis followed by 0.1–1% acetic acid pretreatment) were evaluated. The residual solid after pretreatment was then enzymatically hydrolyzed by Cellic CTec2. The result showed that the addition of acetic acid was able to increase the yield of reducing sugar. In addition, the reducing sugar yield could be still increased when the temperature was escalated, but the extended pretreatment time gave the decline of reducing sugar yield. This yield, however, was still lower than this from NaOH pretreatment followed by autohydrolysis. The maximum yield of this pretreatment could be attained by 1 M NaOH concentration at 125 °C for 60 minutes with solid loading 10% (0.71 g/g-OPEFB).