Biomass hydrolysis process
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[0089] Corn stover was pretreated using steam explosion at 205°C for 5 minutes. The resulting PCS (pretreated corn stover) was washed with tap water to remove soluble inhibitors. Fed-batch hydrolysis was performed with washed PCS at 15%, 20% and 30% TS (total solids), respectively. All batches of washed PCS started with 12.6% TS and required 1, 3 or 4 additional loads of PCS to achieve the specified final TS of 15%, 20% or 30%. The cellulase preparation was added at 0 hours at an enzyme dose of 6 mg EP / g cellulose, or split in half and half added at 0 hours and the other half at 24 hours. Hydrolysis was carried out at 50°C and pH 5.0 for 96 hours.
[0090] Samples of the total slurry were drawn every 24 hours and the sugar concentration was determined by HPLC. The results are shown in Table 1. Glucose equivalent conversion was calculated as the percentage of cellobiose and glucose produced out of the total glucose potential in the PCS.
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[0093] The above tests were repeated to obtain data for about 25% TS content, except that the reactor setup was slightly different. In Example 1 a vertical reactor setup was used, while in this example a horizontal reactor was used. Generally, this will result in lower sugar yields.
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