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Enzymatic hydrolysis of steam-treated sugarcane bagasse: effect of enzyme loading and substrate total solids on its fractal kinetic modeling and rheological properties Douglas Henrique Fockink, Mateus Barbian Urio, Jorge Hernan Sanchez Toro, and Luiz Pereira Ramos Energy Fuels, Just Accepted Manuscript • Publication Date (Web): 16 May 2017 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on May 22, 2017
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Enzymatic hydrolysis of steam-treated sugarcane bagasse: effect of enzyme
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loading and substrate total solids on its fractal kinetic modeling and rheological
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properties
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Douglas H. Fockink1; Mateus B. Urio1; Jorge H. Sánchez2; Luiz P. Ramos1,3*
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University of Paraná - UFPR, P. O. Box 1908 – Curitiba, PR – 81531-980 – Brazil
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Research Center in Applied Chemistry (CEPESQ), Department of Chemistry, Federal
Pulp and Paper Research Group, Department of Chemical Engineering, Universidad
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Pontificia Bolivariana – UPB, P.O. Box 56006 – Medellín – Colombia
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INCT Energy & Environment (INCT E&A), Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil
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ABSTRACT
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Rheological studies and fractal kinetic modeling were applied to investigate the enzymatic
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hydrolysis of steam-exploded sugarcane bagasse (195°C, 7.5 min) using Cellic CTec3
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cellulases (Novozymes). Initially, a central composite rotatable design (CCRD) was
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performed to evaluate the effect of different enzyme loadings and substrate total solids (TS)
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on both substrate apparent viscosity and kinetic parameters of enzymatic hydrolysis.
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Hydrolysis at 20% TS for 12 and 96 h using 38.6 FPU g-1 glucan released 52 and 110 g L-1
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glucose equivalents from the steam-exploded material, respectively, with cellobiose being
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always below 1.7% of these readings. Fractal kinetic modeling provided a good fit of both
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glucan and xylan conversions and the fractal kinetic parameters k and h had a strong
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correlation with changes in both substrate TS and enzyme loading. At the center point of the
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CCRD, Cellic CTec3 caused a decrease of one order of magnitude in the substrate apparent
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viscosity at every 6 h of hydrolysis. Cellic HTec3 had a boosting effect on the enzymatic
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hydrolysis of cane bagasse glucans regardless of the low hemicellulose content of the steam-
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treated material. Glucan hydrolysis was improved by 8% when 10% Cellic HTec3 was
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added to a hydrolysis mixture containing Cellic CTec3 at 38.6 FPU g-1 glucan. With this, a
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total production of 120 g L-1 glucose was achieved at 72 h using 20% TS.
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Key-words: Sugarcane bagasse, enzymatic hydrolysis, apparent viscosity, fractal kinetics,
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glucose yield.
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1. INTRODUCTION
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Renewable liquid fuels such as ethanol are recognized as sustainable alternatives to
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overcome the negative environmental impact of fossil fuels in the transportation sector.
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However, most of the fuel ethanol produced to date comes from sucrose or starch and these
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primary feedstocks may not meet the sustainable criteria of modern biorefineries as well as
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the rising demand for this biofuel worldwide. Ethanol can also be produced from
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lignocellulosic materials but their highly ordered and tightly packed microfibrillar structure
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is very hard to access. Therefore, a pretreatment method is needed to improve the
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accessibility of both glucans (mostly cellulose) and hemicelluloses to enzymatic hydrolysis,
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this without releasing substantial amounts of inhibitory compounds for the subsequent step
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of fermentation. Besides, the lignin type, content and distribution also represent additional
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barriers affecting the enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocellulosic materials.1 For these and other
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reasons, pretreatment is still considered one of the most challenging steps for the optimal
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Different pretreatment strategies have been developed to date for a wide variety of
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lignocellulosic materials.4 Among these, steam explosion is recognized as one of the most
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efficient for hardwoods and agricultural residues and its selective fractionation is the core
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technology for several cellulosic ethanol production facilities available worldwide.5-7 In this
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process, lignocellulosic materials, with or without pre-impregnation with an exogenous
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catalyst, are exposed to pressurized steam followed by a rapid decompression that results in
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the explosive breakdown of the plant cell wall structure,8 promoting hemicellulose
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depolymerization (mainly converted to water soluble oligomers) and structural changes in
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lignin due to the use of relatively high pretreatment temperatures.9
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Enzymatic hydrolysis of pretreated materials is also a key step towards the efficient
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conversion of biomass into fuels and chemicals.2 However, technological improvements are
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still needed to make the process economically viable.10 A potential route to reduce both
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capital and production costs is to perform hydrolysis at high total solids (TS > 15%) with the
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aims of lowering the use of water and increasing the sugar concentration in the liquid
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stream. Economic analyses suggested that the concentration of fermentable sugars in
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biomass hydrolysates must be high enough to produce ethanol concentrations above 4 wt.%.
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This way, the energy consumption in the distillation step is reduced considerably and the
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economics of the overall production process is greatly improved.11
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Processing at high total solids (TS) is not an easy task since pretreated biomass
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slurries are highly viscous and exhibit strong non-Newtonian flow properties.12-14 The low
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availability of free water in these reaction systems introduces mechanical challenges that are
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related to mixing and pumping,15 creating heat and mass transfer limitations that hinder the
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optimal performance and uniform distribution of the enzymes, respectively.16 In addition,
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soluble sugars rapidly accumulate in the reaction medium at high substrate TS, decreasing
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the water mobility and causing enzyme inhibition at the early stages of hydrolysis.14, 17, 18 As
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a results, kinetic models for homogeneous reaction systems that are based on the Fick's law
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of diffusion do not apply to the enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose.19 By contrast, fractal
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kinetics has been successfully used to fit such experimental data 20-22 but its application to
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enzymatic hydrolysis with advanced cellulase systems such as Cellic® CTec3 (Novozymes)
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at various substrate TS and enzyme loadings has not been reported as yet.
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In the present study, sugarcane bagasse was pretreated by steam explosion at reaction
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conditions that were pre-optimized by Pitarelo et al. 23 for optimal glucan recovery and
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enzymatic hydrolysis. Then, a central composite rotatable design (CCRD) was employed to
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evaluate the effect of different enzyme loadings and substrate TS on changes in both
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substrate apparent viscosity and glucan conversion. The apparent viscosity was monitored
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during the first 24 h of hydrolysis using different substrate TS and Cellic CTec3 enzyme
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loadings. In addition, the fractal kinetic model was applied to fit the hydrolysis data and to
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establish a correlation between the fractal kinetic parameters h and k and the susceptibility of
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cane bagasse polysaccharides to enzymatic hydrolysis. The influence of Cellic HTec3
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hemicellulases was also evaluated in order to assess their synergism with Cellic CTec3 in
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the hydrolysis of steam-treated substrates.
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2. MATERIAL AND METHODS
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2.1. Material Sugarcane bagasse was obtained from the São Martinho Mill (São Paulo, SP, Brazil)
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with the logistical support of the Cane Technology Center - CTC (Piracicaba, SP, Brazil).
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This sample was considered representative because it was collected directly from an
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samples of cane bagasse when suitable analytical methods are used for characterization.24, 25
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The commercial enzymes used for hydrolysis (Cellic CTec3 and Cellic HTec3) were kindly
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donated by Novozymes Latin America (Araucária, PR, Brazil).
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2.2. Sugarcane bagasse pretreatment and chemical characterization Pretreatment was performed in a 10-L high pressure batch steam reactor at 195 °C
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for 7.5 min using sugarcane bagasse with a final moisture content of 50 wt.%. Water-
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washing was applied on the resulting pretreated material to remove water-soluble
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hemicellulose and lignin components.23
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The composition of both untreated and treated materials was characterized following
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the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) standard procedures. The total
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moisture, ash and total extractive contents were determined according to NREL/TP-510-
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42621, 26 NREL/TP-510-42622 27 and NREL/TP-510-42619 28, respectively. Carbohydrate
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and total lignin contents (acid-soluble and acid-insoluble lignin) were determined as
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recommended by NREL/TP-510-42618.29 Substrate acid hydrolysates were analyzed by
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high performance liquid chromatography (Shimadzu HPLC, LC-20AD series) using an
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Agilent Hi-Plex H column (300 x 7.7 mm) with its corresponding guard column (50 x 7.7
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mm) at 65 °C. Column elution was performed with 5 mmol L-1 H2SO4 at a flow rate of 0.6
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mL min-1. Sample injection (20 µL) was carried out automatically using a Shimadzu SIL-
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10AF autosampler. Quantitative analysis was carried out by external calibration using
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differential refractometry (Shimadzu RID-10A) for detecting cellobiose, glucose, xylose,
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arabinose and acetic acid, and UV spectrophotometry (Shimadzu SPD-M10AVP) at 280 nm
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for detecting furfural and hydroxymethylfurfural. Each of these analytes was subsequently
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converted to their original polysaccharide component by taking into account their
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corresponding anhydrous mass correction factors.
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2.3 Enzymatic hydrolysis Enzymatic hydrolysis of steam-exploded cane bagasse was initially investigated
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through a central composite rotatable design (CCRD) that involved four experiments at the
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vertices and four experiments at the axial points of a 22 factorial design plus three replicates
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at its center point for a total of 11 experiments. Enzyme loadings (Cellic CTec3) of 7.7 and
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38.6 FPU g-1 glucan and substrate TS of 10 and 20% (w v-1) were adopted in the vertices of
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this factorial design as shown in Table 1 (Design A). Statistical analysis was carried out with
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the software Statistica 8.0 and the proposed CCRD was used to generate models that were
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able to describe changes in the fractal kinetic parameters k and h for both glucan and xylan
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conversions (see below for details).
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Table 1
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Total cellulase activity measured as filter paper units (FPU) was determined by the
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I.U.P.A.C. method 30 with the adaptations proposed by Schwald et al. 31. All hydrolysis
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experiments were carried out at 50 °C and 150 rpm in 125 mL Erlenmeyer flasks using 50
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mmol L-1 sodium acetate buffer (pH 5.2). Aliquots were collected in reaction times of 0, 3,
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6, 9, 12, 24, 48, 72 and 96 h, centrifuged at 10,000 g and analyzed in the same HPLC system
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mentioned above. External calibration was used for the quantitative analysis of cellobiose,
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glucose and xylose; however, cellobiose and glucose concentrations were accounted
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together as glucose equivalents ([GlcEq] = [glucose] + 1.0526 [cellobiose]). Glucan
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conversion was calculated by expressing GlcEq release in relation to the amount of glucans
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(mostly cellulose) that was present in the original steam-exploded material. However, small
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volume variations in the substrate hydrolysates were not taken into account and, for this
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reason, the resulting glucan conversions might have been a little overestimated.
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Another simple 22 experimental design (two variables in two levels plus three
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replicates at the center point) was carried out to evaluate the influence of Cellic HTec3
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hemicelullases on hydrolysis efficiency (Table 1, Design B). These experiments were also
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carried out in a rotary shaker incubator at 20% (w v-1) TS using 50 mmol L-1 sodium acetate
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buffer (pH 5.2) at 50 °C and 150 rpm. Aliquots were collected in 12, 24, 48, 72 and 96 h,
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centrifuged at 10,000 g and analyzed by HPLC. Quantitative analysis of cellobiose, glucose
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and xylose was carried out by external calibration.
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2.4 Fractal kinetics modeling The release of sugars (GlcEq and xylose) were fitted by fractal kinetics 20 using the pseudo first-order reaction equation originally proposed by Kopelman 32 (Equation 1),
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P(t) = S0[1-exp(-k · t1-h)]
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were P(t) is the product concentration (g L-1), S0 is the initial concentration of glucan or
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xylan (represented as glucose or xylose in g L-1), k is the time dependent rate coefficient, h is
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the fractal exponent, and t is the reaction time (h).
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2.5 Apparent viscosity measurements Rheological measurements were performed in a stress/shear-rate controlled DHR-2 rheometer (TA instruments) using a Peltier concentric cylinder system. The geometry
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consisted of a four-bladed vane rotor, 42 mm in height and 28 mm in diameter, placed in a
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30 mm diameter cup containing the sample, which resulted in a narrow gap. The vane
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shaped rotor was used to reduce wall slip. The temperature was controlled and all
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rheological experiments were carried out at the same temperature used for enzymatic
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hydrolysis, i.e., 50 °C. In order to minimize evaporation, the cup was covered with a solvent
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trap.
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Enzymatic hydrolyses were carried out in shake-flasks under the selected conditions
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of the CCRD (Table 1, Design A). The reaction was stopped after 3, 6, 9, 12 and 24 h of
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hydrolysis and the suspension was transferred immediately to the rheometer for measuring
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changes in its rheological properties. To obtain consistent rheological data and to eliminate
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thixotropic effects after loading the sample into the measuring device, all suspensions were
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pre-sheared to rupture any fiber bundles, followed by a relaxation time for the partial
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recovery their fiber structure. Steady-state flow curves were obtained by a logarithmic shear
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rate sweep of 1-1000 s-1, from which the apparent viscosity of the fiber suspension was
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obtained.
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3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
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3.1. Chemical characterization of sugarcane bagasse Both untreated and pretreated sugarcane bagasse were characterized for their
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chemical composition (Table 2) and these values were used to calculate both pretreatment
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and hydrolysis yields. Both glucan (measured as anhydroglucose) and lignin contents were
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higher in the steam-treated materials as a result of the high susceptibility of hemicelluloses
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to acid hydrolysis. The xylan content decreased from 16.7 wt.% in the native material to 3.4
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pretreated cane bagasse acid hydrolysates.
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Similar carbohydrate and lignin contents were observed in other studies involving
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steam explosion of sugarcane bagasse, even when more drastic pretreatment conditions were
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applied. Ewanick and Bura 33 carried out pretreatment at 205 °C for 10 min to produce
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substrates with glucan, hemicellulose and total lignin contents of 51.3, 3.6 and 33.9 wt.%,
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respectively. Rocha et al. 34 pretreated sugarcane bagasse for 15 min at 190 °C and obtained
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substrates with 58.0, 4.5 and 33.0 wt.% of glucan, hemicellulose and total lignin contents,
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respectively. Amores et al. 35 found similar glucan (58.1 wt.%) and lignin (28.5 wt.%)
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contents in pretreated samples that were steam-exploded at 200 °C for 5 min but their
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hemicellulose content (14.0 wt.%) was much higher; however, the raw material used for
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pretreatment had a high hemicellulose content as well (25.0 wt.%). Sugar losses after acid
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hydrolysis have been attributed to pentose and hexose dehydration under acidic conditions to
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form furfural and hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF), respectively. In cane bagasse acid
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hydrolysates, HMF derives from hexoses such as glucose and galactose whereas furfural
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comes from pentoses such as xylose and arabinose. On the basis of this clear uncertainty in
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their origin, the quantification of furfural and HMF in acid hydrolysates was indicated in
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Table 2 as unidentified pentoses and hexoses, respectively.36
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The mass recovery yield after steam explosion was 86.2 wt.%, being 65.5 wt.% in
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the water-insoluble fraction and 20.7 wt.% in the water-soluble fraction. The mass losses
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observed during pretreatment (13.8 wt.%) were attributed to the volatilization of extractives
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and byproducts (furfural, HMF and acetic acid) that are hard to recover from the high
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pressure steam reactor.37, 38 Also, furan compounds derived from sugar dehydration and
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phenolic compounds derived from lignin may be partially involved in condensation
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reactions that lead to the accumulation of acid-insoluble polymeric materials.39 Nevertheless,
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a total glucan recovery of 98.9 wt.% was obtained in this study, with most of it being found
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in the water-insoluble fraction (95.8 wt.%).
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3.2. Enzymatic hydrolysis of steam-treated cane bagasse
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Figure 1 shows the enzymatic hydrolysis profiles of steam-exploded materials that
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were derived from the proposed experimental conditions of the CCRD. The largest glucan
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conversions in 48 h of hydrolysis were obtained from experiments A7, A9 and A10 (Figure
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1a), which corresponded to 57.5, 85.5 and 44.6 g L-1 GlcEq, respectively (Figure 1b).
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Cellobiose was always a minor component in GlcEq measurements. However, cellobiose
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accumulation increased with time in all hydrolysis runs, reaching the highest level when
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high enzyme loadings were used at high levels of substrate TS. In average, cellobiose
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accounted for 1.7 ± 0.9% of GlcEq for all hydrolysis data involved in the CCRD (additional
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data are given in Table S1 and S2 of the Supporting Information) but, for experiments
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carried out at the highest substrate TS and enzyme loadings, cellobiose exceeded the IC50
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inhibitory levels proposed by Teugjas and Väljamäe 39 for Trichoderma reesei
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cellobiohydrolases (2.6 mmol L-1 or 0.9 g L-1). Although not necessarily applicable to this
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study, this information suggests that Cellic CTec3 may need some β-glucosidase
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supplementation to avoid end-product inhibition, particularly at longer reaction times.
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Figure 1
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A good correlation between substrate TS and both glucan conversion [Conversion
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(%) = 0.098 TS2 – 5.157 TS + 115.440; R2 > 0.99] and glucose release [Glc (g L-1) = -0.044
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TS2 + 3.234 TS + 15.570; R2 > 0.99] was observed in experiments A3, A4, A5 (center
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point), A10 and A11, in which the same enzyme loading of 23.1 FPU g-1 glucan was applied
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for hydrolysis. In general, the observed decrease in glucan conversion at high TS was
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attributed to poor mass and heat transfers in viscous slurries, which is connected to the lack
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of free water in the reaction environment.41 Likewise, the applied enzyme loading (EL)
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correlated well with glucan conversion [Conversion (%) = - 0.028 EL2 + 2.951 EL + 7.154,
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R2 > 0.99] and glucose release [Glc (g L-1) = - 0.026 EL2 + 2.657 EL + 6.431; R2 > 0.99] for
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experiments carried out at 15% TS with different enzyme loadings of 1.4 (A8), 23.1 (A3, 4,
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5) and 44.9 (A9) FPU g-1 glucan. The best fit of the experimental data was always obtained
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through a second order polynomial regression, already revealing the non-linear correlation
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that exists among the experimental data. Nevertheless, the observed differences in glucan
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conversion (in %) and glucose release (in g L-1) were strongly related to the
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enzyme/substrate ratio that was used for hydrolysis. Hydrolysis under different conditions
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using almost the same enzyme/substrate ratio, as observed in experiments A9 (44.9 FPU g-1
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glucan at 15% TS) and A10 (23.1 FPU g-1 glucan at 8% TS), resulted in similar patterns of
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glucan conversion but completely different glucose releases. In addition, experiments at the
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highest enzyme/substrate ratio (A7) resulted in both the fastest initial hydrolysis rates
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(Figure 1) and the lowest apparent viscosity observed in this study (Table 4).
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In general, the amount of glucose released at 10 and 15% TS in 48 h (A7 and A9,
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respectively) was higher than those obtained from liquid hot water pretreated olive tree
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prunings at 20% (w v-1) TS using 65.8 FPU g-1 glucan, which produced 52 g L-1 glucose in
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72 h of enzymatic hydrolysis.16 On the other hand, Rosgaard et al. 42 obtained similar sugar
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concentrations (78 g L-1) from steam-treated barley straw at 15% (w w-1) TS using 12.9 FPU
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g-1 glucan but only after 72 h of hydrolysis.
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Experiments A1 and A8 had the lowest glucan conversion due the use of low enzyme
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loadings at high TS. All other conditions achieved glucan conversions of approximately
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70% in 48 h (Figure 1a). According to Arantes and Saddler 1, when 50-70% of the original
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material has been hydrolyzed, a decrease in the reaction rate is observed due the
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accumulation of adverse factors such as the higher recalcitrance of the remaining cellulosic
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material, high levels of end-product inhibition, and enzyme losses due to their irreversible
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and/or unproductive adsorption onto lignin-carbohydrate fragments, which is aggravated by
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the build-up of lignin in the reaction mixture. By contrast, trends of decreasing viscosities at
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longer reaction times are a result of the collapse of the cell wall structure, which also
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involves a decrease in cellulose degree of polymerization and an increase in fiber porosity.42
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Hydrolysis at 20% TS using 38.6 FPU g-1 glucan (A2) resulted in the highest GlcEq
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release of 110 g L-1 after 96 h of hydrolysis. However, around 52 g L-1 GlcEq was already
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achieved in 12 h in several experiments including A2 (Figure 1b). While 110 g L-1 is
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promising for separate hydrolysis and fermentation, 52 g L-1 in 12 h seems to be very good
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for fed-batch hydrolysis or simultaneous hydrolysis and fermentation.
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Xylan hydrolysis profiles were similar to those of glucans, with higher conversions
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being achieved in experiments A7, A9 and A10 (Figure 2a). The highest xylose
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concentration of 6.6 g L-1 was obtained in A2 and this corresponded to an 85% conversion at
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96 h of hydrolysis (Figure 2b). In general, xylans are more accessible to enzymatic
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hydrolysis than glucans such as cellulose. However, when embedded in the structure of
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pretreated cellulosic materials, xylans are not immediately available for hydrolysis but they
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are gradually exposed to the concerted action of the enzymes as glucan hydrolysis goes on.
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Therefore, xylans are present in the chemical composition of partially hydrolysed cellulosic
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materials even after most of the cellulose component had been hydrolysed to soluble sugars.
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Figure 2
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The fractal kinetic parameters k and h as well as the R2 values for the regression
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models of Figures 1 and 2 are given in Table 3. The high R2 values for all hydrolysis
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experiments reveal the ability of the fractal kinetic model to describe both glucan and xylan
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conversions as a function of time; therefore, both k and h were analyzed in relation to the
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process variables using second-order model equations and ANOVA to evaluate the
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adequacy of the fitted models (Table S3 of the Supporting Information). The pure error,
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calculated from the experimental error at the center point of the experimental design, ranged
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from 0.1 to 2.8% according to the total sum of squares, indicating the good reproducibility
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of the experimental data. Based on the F-test, the resulting models are predictive since the
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calculated F-value for all responses are greater than the corresponding tabulated F-value
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within the confidence level of 95%. Also, the high R2 values demonstrate that most of the
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variance was explained by the fitted models.
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Table 3
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Equations 2 and 3 were generated to fit the fractal kinetic parameters of glucan
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where EL is the enzyme loading and TS is the substrate total solids.
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kGlc = 0.098 + 0.047 EL - 0.003 EL2 - 0.027 TS + 0.031 TS2 - 0.044 EL x TS
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hGlc = 0.287 - 0.040 EL + 0.012 EL2 + 0.059 TS + 0.054 TS2 - 0.060 EL x TS
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kXyl = 0.172 + 0.083 EL - 0.004 EL2 - 0.029 TS + 0.020 TS2 - 0.052 EL x TS
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hXyl = 0.468 - 0.030 EL + 0.012 EL2 + 0.044 TS + 0.036 TS2 - 0.053 EL x TS
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As shown in Figures 3a and 4a, the rate coefficient k for both glucan and xylan
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conversion was strongly affected by changes in the applied enzyme loading (see Figure S1
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in Supporting Information). However, this effect was more pronounced in reactions that
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were carried out at lower substrate TS. For instance, at 10% TS (A6 and A7 in Table 1), k
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increased from 0.083 to 0.299 h-1 for glucan conversion and from 0.105 to 0.386 h-1 for
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xylan conversion when the enzyme loading was increased from 7.7 to 38.6 FPU g-1 glucan
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but, at 20% TS, increased enzyme loadings (A1 and A2) gave similar k values for glucan
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conversion (0.102 and 0.108 h-1) and slightly higher k values for xylan conversion (0.134
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and 0.194 h-1), respectively. This was so because, at high TS, the mass transport of products
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and enzymes is much more restricted by the low availability of water in the fiber slurry. The
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k value decreased from 0.299 to 0.108 h-1 for glucans and from 0.386 to 0.194 h-1 for xylans
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when the substrate TS increased from 10 to 20% at 38.6 FPU g-1 glucan (A7 and A2,
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respectively). Also, this effect was observed in smaller proportions at 23.1 FPU g-1 glucan
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(A10 and A11). By contrast, the negative effect of TS on k is apparently overcome at low
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enzyme loadings of 7.7 FPU g-1 glucan (A1 and A6) and this may be associated with higher
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substrate availability and less enzyme traffic jamming at these hydrolysis conditions. These
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observations justify the statistical significance of both the TS quadratic term and the binary
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interaction between TS and enzyme loading, which was also observed in Pareto Charts for
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the k parameter (see Figure S1 in Supporting Information).
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Wang and Feng 21 reviewed the effects of enzyme loading and non-ionic surfactants
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on the enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocellulosic materials using fractal analysis. Changes in
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the fractal exponent h were associated with substrate accessibility, with good substrates for
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hydrolysis tending to present low h values.43 However, there is still a lack of studies
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involving the correlation between h and the initial substrate content at high TS using
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different enzyme loadings. Response surfaces for the fractal exponent h are shown in
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Figures 3b and 4b for glucan and xylan conversions, respectively.
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Regarding the fractal exponent h, substrate TS was the most significant effect for
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xylan conversion and the only significant effect for glucose conversion (see Figure S1 in
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Supporting Information). High substrate TS resulted in high fractal exponents in both cases
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were applied at 20 and 10% TS (h values of 0.536 and 0.295, respectively), and A10 and
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A11, in which 23.1 FPU g-1 glucan were applied at 8 and 22% TS (h values of 0.305 and
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0.475, respectively). In addition to end-product inhibition, the accumulation of lignin in the
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reaction mixture is higher at high TS and this may have increased the non-productive and/or
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irreversible binding of enzymes by hydrophobic interactions. By contrast, this was not
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observed at high enzyme loadings (A2 and A7) because the extent of enzyme adsorption on
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lignin and lignin-carbohydrate fragments was probably not a critical barrier to achieve
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exponent increases with an increase in enzyme loading and this has been attributed to the
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crowding of cellulases on the cellulose surface, as well as to the formation of aggregates due
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to protein-to-protein interactions.21, 44 This effect was also observed in experiments A6 and
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A7 at 10% TS but the use of higher fiber slurries of 15% TS (A8, A3, 4, 5 and A9) and 20%
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TS (A1 and A2) resulted in the opposite trend.
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Finally, all experiments showed higher k and h values for xylan conversion when
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compared to glucan conversion. Such high k values are due the high hemicellulase content
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of Cellic CTec3, which is able to hydrolyse most of the hemicellulose components of the
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steam-exploded cane bagasse. By contrast, high h values are probably expressing the low
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accessibility of residual hemicelluloses that are embedded in and more closely bound to the
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lignocellulosic matrix, being accessible only after glucans are gradually removed by the
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concerted action of the cellulolytic enzymes.
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Rheological measurements for all CCRD conditions showed that hydrolysis caused a
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gradual decrease in substrate apparent viscosity and this was primarily associated to changes
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in substrate TS and fiber morphology. Also, the substrate apparent viscosity decreased with
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increasing shear rate at all times used for hydrolysis, indicating the non-Newtonian “shear-
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thinning” behavior that is shown in Figure 5. Previous works with pretreated slurries have
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reported similar pseudoplastic behavior.12, 14 The shear-thinning nature of the material was
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explained by Ebeling et al. 45, who reported that the orientation of cotton cellulose
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microcrystals is dependent on shear rate. Above a certain shear rate value, changes in
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apparent viscosity are less pronounced because cellulose microcrystals align horizontally
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along the shear direction and the resistance to the flow becomes approximately constant.
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lignocellulose, which are broken by an increase in the shear rate. Thus, the density of the
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entanglements is reduced and the apparent viscosity decreases.
attributed this pseudoplasticity to the formation of highly entangled structures of
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The apparent viscosity of fiber slurries also undergoes dynamic and dramatic
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changes with time due to the progressive action of cellulolytic enzymes. Figure 5 shows that
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the apparent viscosity is reduced just about one order of magnitude at every 6 h of
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hydrolysis. This change is due to a loss in lignocellulose structure by the combined effects
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of cell wall deconstruction and a gradual decrease in the average cellulose and hemicellulose
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chain lengths.42 Various chemical bonds within the fiber suspension are hydrolyzed while
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several components are solubilized into the liquid phase, thus reducing the contact between
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neighboring particles.14, 47
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Variations in viscosity at shear rates higher than 100 s-1 are probably due to a gradual
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change from laminar to turbulent flow during the tests. For this reason, changes in apparent
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viscosity were compared at 10 s-1 and these data are presented in Table 4 as function of
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hydrolysis time. As expected, the initial apparent viscosities were proportional to the
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substrate TS, providing values at 15, 20 and 22% TS that were approximately two, four and
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five times higher than that of 10% TS slurries, respectively. For slurries of 15% TS and
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higher, high viscosities can be due to the lower availability of free-water and greater
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hydrogen bonding among cellulose chains. Also, as the substrate TS increases, the average
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distance between particles decreases, leading to an increase in the particle-to-particle
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interactions.42 This phenomenon results in more friction and resistance to flow and therefore
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to higher apparent viscosities. Furthermore, as a result of the pretreatment process, fiber
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porosity is increased by partial hemicellulose and lignin removal, improving both the
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accessibility of hydrolases to fiber polysaccharides and the fiber swelling by water
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absorption, which also reduces the free-water content of the slurry.41
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Different enzyme/substrate ratios led to a considerable reduction in substrate
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viscosity within the first 3 h of hydrolysis but the most significant changes were observed in
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experiments where the highest enzyme loadings were used. Table 4 shows that reductions of
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81%, 97%, and 89% were achieved for runs A2, A7 and A9, respectively. In general, higher
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substrate viscosities were observed at lower glucan conversions but these values dropped
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rapidly due to a combination of a gradual reduction in substrate TS and cellulose
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fragmentation into smaller particles.
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According to Figures 1 and 2, glucans and xylans followed similar hydrolysis
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profiles and the latter were present in partially hydrolysed substrates up until 96 h of
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hydrolysis. For this reason, Cellic HTec3 hemicellulases (10% in relation to Cellic CTec3)
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were added to the hydrolysis mixture to investigate their boosting effect on glucan
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conversion by facilitating the removal of xylan oligomers from the surface of cellulose
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aggregates. These experiments were carried out at 20% TS as part of a typical 22 factorial
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design (see conditions at Table 1, Design B). The results reported in Figure 6a were
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statistically different for different levels of Cellic CTec3 (p < 0.05 in the ANOVA) and this
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motivated the use of the Tukey’s test to differentiate the individual reaction responses. Until
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48 h of hydrolysis, there were no differences (p > 0.05) in both response variables when
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hemicellulases were added to the reaction medium (see experiments B1 and B6; B2 and B7
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in Figure 6). However, at 72 h, significant differences (p < 0.05) were observed at the
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highest levels of cellulase activity (see experiments B2 and B7). As a result, the use of Cellic
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HTec3 at the highest level (10%) caused an increase of 8% in glucan conversion, which
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corresponds to a GlcEq release of 10.5 g L-1 after 72 or 96 h of hydrolysis. It is also
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noteworthy that, in 96 h, the combination of Cellic CTec3 and Cellic HTec3 (B3, B4 and
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B5) produced the same glucan conversion and GlcEq release that was produced by Cellic
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CTec3 alone at the highest level of the experimental design (B7).
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Regardless of the hydrolysis time, all xylan conversions and xylose concentrations
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described in Figure 6b were statistically different in the ANOVA (p < 0.05) for different
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levels of Cellic CTec3. Likewise, at the highest levels of enzyme loading (B2 and B7),
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Cellic HTec3 resulted in significant differences (p < 0.05) in all reaction times except 72 h,
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providing a 9.4% higher xylan conversion and an average increase of 0.7 g L-1 in xylose
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concentration. However, at the lowest levels of Cellic CTec3 (B1 and B6), supplementation
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with Cellic HTec3 activity was only statistically meaningful after 96 h of hydrolysis, in
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which an increase of 8.7% was observed in xylan conversion.
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Cellic HTec3 had a boosting effect on the enzymatic hydrolysis of cane bagasse
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glucans regardless of the low hemicellulose content of the steam-treated material. This
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unexpected performance is justified by the relatively high recalcitrance of the hemicellulose
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fraction that withstood pretreatment and fractionation. Being more intimately associated
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with cane bagasse glucans and/or lignin, these residual hemicellulose fractions are more
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difficult to access and their hydrolysis progresses slowly as substrate glucans are gradually
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removed.
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4. CONCLUSION
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Successful ethanol fermentation is only achievable if high sugar concentrations are
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obtained upon enzymatic hydrolysis. Cellic CTec3 was able to release more than 100 g L-1
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GlcEq from steam-treated cane bagasse in 72 h at 20% TS using 38.6 FPU g-1 glucan.
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Biomass slurries exhibited poor rheological properties above 15% TS, however, a
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remarkable decrease in substrate apparent viscosity was observed after 3 h of hydrolysis.
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Fractal kinetics provided a good fit of both glucan and xylan hydrolysis data. The rate
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coefficient k and the fractal exponent h were strongly affected by changes in the applied
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enzyme loading and these trends were useful to predict substrate accessibility and the ideal
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enzyme loading for optimal hydrolysis performance at high substrate TS. Finally, Cellic
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HTec3 improved the total glucan conversion by 8% but only when a relatively high enzyme
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loading was used for hydrolysis.
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Supporting Information
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Table S1. Release of glucose equivalents from steam-treated sugarcane bagasse as a function
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of hydrolysis time under the conditions given in the CCRD experimental design.
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Table S2. Release of cellobiose from steam-treated sugarcane bagasse as a function of
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hydrolysis time under the conditions given in the experimental design of the CCRD.
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Table S3. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) of the fractal kinetic parameters that were derived
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from the central composite rotatable design (CCRD, Design A).
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Figure S1. Pareto chart describing the primary and secondary effects of different total solids
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and enzyme loadings in: (a) parameter k (h-1) and (b) parameter h for glucan conversion; and
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(c) parameter k (h-1) and (d) parameter h for xylan conversion.
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Figure S2. Correlation between the observed and predicted values for the fractal parameters
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(a) k (h-1) and (b) h for glucan conversion and (c) k (h-1) and (d) h for xylan conversion.
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Figure S3. Apparent viscosity at 10 s-1 of steam-treated sugarcane bagasse during enzymatic
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hydrolysis with Cellic CTec3 under the conditions given in Table 1 (CCRD).
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Corresponding author
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*E-mail:
[email protected]. Telephone: +55 4133613175.
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Note: the authors declare no competing financial interest.
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Acknowledgements
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The authors are grateful to CNPq (grants 551404/2010-8 and 311554/2011-3) and to
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the INCT in Energy and Environment for providing financial support to carry out this study,
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as well as to Novozymes Latin America (Araucária, PR, Brazil) for donating the enzyme
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preparations used for hydrolysis. Also, the authors wish to thank CAPES for providing
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scholarships to M.B.U. and D.H.F. and CYTED (Red Provalor, grant 312RT0456) for
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funding the student exchange between UFPR and UPB.
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Table 1. Matrices of the experimental designs that were carried out to investigate the
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enzymatic hydrolysis of steam-treated sugarcane bagasse (coded values are given in brackets
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and experiments 3,4 and 5 are the center points of the experimental designs).
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Design A
Design B
CTec3 loading
Total solids
Run
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CTec3 loading
HTec3
(FPU g-1 glucan)
loading (%)*
Run (FPU g-1 glucan)
(% w v-1)
A1
7.7 (-1)
20 (+1)
B1
7.7 (-1)
10 (+1)
A2
38.6 (+1)
20 (+1)
B2
38.6 (+1)
10 (+1)
A3, 4, 5
23.1 (0)
15 (0)
B3,4,5
23.1 (0)
5 (0)
A6
7.7 (-1)
10 (-1)
B6
7.7 (-1)
0 (-1)
A7
38.6 (+1)
10 (-1)
B7
38.6 (+1)
0 (-1)
A8
1.4 (-1.41)
15 (0)
-
-
-
A9
44.9 (+1.41)
15 (0)
-
-
-
A10
23.1 (0)
8 (-1.41)
-
-
-
A11
23.1 (0)
22 (+1.41)
-
-
-
* Values expressed in relation to the mass of Cellic CTec3.
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Table 2. Chemical composition of untreated and pretreated sugarcane bagasse.
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Component (wt.%)
Untreated
Pretreated
Anhydroglucose1
39.5 ± 0.7
54.5 ± 0.9
Anhydroxylose2
16.7 ± 0.4
3.4 ± 0.2
Anhydroarabinose2
1.5 ± 0.03
bdl8
Acetyl groups2
4.0 ± 0.1
bdl
Unidentified anhydrohexoses3
0.69 ± 0.01
0.89 ± 0.19
Unidentified anhydropentoses4
2.99 ± 0.23
0.45 ± 0.02
Acid soluble lignin
5.5 ± 0.7
3.7 ± 0.2
Acid insoluble lignin
20.6 ± 0.7
30.2 ± 0.7
Ashes
5.1 ± 0.2
5.2 ± 0.5
Extractives in water
3.5 ± 0.1
nd8
Extractives in ethanol
1.7 ± 0.1
nd
Total
101.8
98.3
Total glucan content5
40.2
55.4
Total hemicellulose contet6
25.2
3.8
Total lignin content7
26.1
33.8
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1
Present as β(1-4)-D-glucans (cellulose);
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2
Present as heteroxylan components (hemicellulose);
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3
Dehydration by-product from hexoses measured as hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF);
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4
Dehydration by-product from pentoses measured as furfural;
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5
Summation of anhydroglucose and unidentified hexoses that were detected a HMF;
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6
Summation of anhydroxylose, anhydroarabinose, acetyl groups and unidentified pentoses
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Summation of acid soluble and acid insoluble lignin;
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Table 3. Fractal kinetic parameters of the enzymatic hydrolysis data that was obtained from
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steam-treated sugarcane bagasse under the conditions given in the experimental design of
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the CCRD.
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Run
Glucan conversion
Xylan conversion
k (h-1)
h
R2
k (h-1)
h
R2
A1
0.102
0.536
0.995
0.134
0.648
0.968
A2
0.108
0.330
0.999
0.194
0.496
0.991
A3, 4, 5 0.095 ± 0.012 0.272 ± 0.040
0.998
0.166 ± 0.019 0.471 ± 0.028
0.995
A6
0.083
0.295
0.999
0.105
0.443
1.000
A7
0.299
0.387
0.999
0.386
0.525
0.965
A8
0.014
0.352
0.997
0.036
0.555
0.992
A9
0.150
0.246
0.998
0.276
0.445
0.993
A10
0.178
0.305
0.999
0.238
0.499
0.993
A11
0.126
0.475
0.995
0.175
0.591
0.981
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Table 4. Apparent viscosity at 10 s-1 of steam-treated sugarcane bagasse during enzymatic
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hydrolysis with Cellic CTec3 under the conditions given in Table 1 (CCRD)*.
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Apparent viscosity (Pa s) after enzymatic hydrolysis for: Run
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0h
3h
6h
9h
12 h
24 h
A1
90.8
39.3
30.5
21.8
17.6
9.7
A2
97.0
18.1
9.4
4.0
1.8
0.4
A3, 4, 5
53.5 ± 8.1
15.7 ± 1.4
7.4 ± 0.8
2.6 ± 0.5
1.0 ± 0.1
0.4 ± 0.1
A6
26.0
16.8
7.9
2.5
1.1
0.3
A7
20.0
0.7
0.3
0.1