- Title
- The Effects of Alkaline Pretreatment on Agricultural Biomasses (Corn Cob and Sweet Sorghum Bagasse) and Their Hydrolysis by a Termite-Derived Enzyme Cocktail:
- Creator
- Mafa, Mpho S, Malgas, Samkelo, Bhattacharya, Abhishek, Rashamuse, Konanani, Pletschke, Brett I
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160273
- Identifier
- vital:40430
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy10081211
- Description
- Sweet sorghum bagasse (SSB) and corncob (CC) have been identified as promising feedstocks for the production of second-generation biofuels and other value-added chemicals. In this study, lime (Ca(OH)2) and NaOH pretreatment efficacy for decreasing recalcitrance from SSB and CC was investigated, and subsequently, the pretreated biomass was subjected to the hydrolytic action of an in-house formulated holocellulolytic enzyme cocktail (HEC-H). Compositional analysis revealed that SSB contained 29.34% lignin, 17.75% cellulose and 16.28% hemicellulose, while CC consisted of 22.51% lignin, 23.58% cellulose and 33.34% hemicellulose. Alkaline pretreatment was more effective in pretreating CC biomass compared to the SSB biomass.
- Format
- 14 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Agronomy, Mafa, M., Malgas, S., Bhattacharya, A., Rashamuse, K. and Pletschke, B.I., 2020. The Effects of Alkaline Pretreatment on Agricultural Biomasses (Corn Cob and Sweet Sorghum Bagasse) and Their Hydrolysis by a Termite-Derived Enzyme Cocktail. Agronomy, 10(8), p.1211, Agronomy volume 10 number 8 p.1211 August 2020 2073-4395
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