Processing of lignocellulosic biomass

    公开(公告)号:US11920203B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-05

    申请号:US17250508

    申请日:2019-07-15

    IPC分类号: C13K1/02 C13K13/00

    CPC分类号: C13K1/02 C13K13/00

    摘要: Lignocellulosic biomass (11) is processed to produce organic chemicals by (a) subjecting the biomass to a first hydrolysis (14) to hydrolyse hemicellulose, to form a liquid component comprising the products of hemicellulose hydrolysis in solution, and a solid component comprising cellulose and lignin; (b) then subjecting the solid component to a second hydrolysis (20), so as to hydrolyse cellulose and vaporise the resulting products of cellulose hydrolysis; and (c) then condensing (22) the resulting vapours to form an aqueous solution (25) containing the products of cellulose hydrolysis. After the first hydrolysis (14) and before the second hydrolysis (20), the process also comprises subjecting the solid component to a washing step (16). In this washing step (16) the solid component is washed with the aqueous solution (25) that contains the products of cellulose hydrolysis. Hence the resultant solution contains the products of both the first and the second hydrolysis steps (14, 20).

    Process for enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocellulosic material and fermentation of sugars

    公开(公告)号:US11773420B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-03

    申请号:US17170169

    申请日:2021-02-08

    申请人: VERSALIS S.P.A.

    摘要: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of a fermentation product from lignocellulosic material, comprising the following steps:



    a) optionally, pretreatment of the lignocellulosic material,
    b) optionally, washing of the optionally pretreated lignocellulosic material,
    c) enzymatic hydrolysis of the optionally washed and/or optionally pretreated lignocellulosic material using an enzyme composition comprising at least two cellulases and whereby the enzyme composition at least comprises LPMO, and optionally purifying the hydrolysed lignocellulosic material,
    d) fermentation of the hydrolysed lignocellulosic material to produce a fermentation product, and
    e) optionally, recovery of a fermentation product,

    wherein the amounts of formed hydrolysed oxidation products at the end of the enzymatic hydrolysis by the oxidation by LPMO of the lignocellulosic material containing cellulose and/or cello-oligosaccharides is kept between 3 to 80 g/kg glucan present in the lignocellulosic material by adding a suitable amount of oxygen after the pre-treatment and before and/or during the enzymatic hydrolysis to the lignocellulosic material, preferably the formed hydrolysed oxidation product is gluconic acid, an aldonic acid and/or geminal diol, more preferably the hydrolysed oxidation product is gluconic acid.