What is it about?
In general, palm trunk residues has tough structure that made it difficult to be degraded. With this difficulty, the production of ethanol or biofuels has low success rate. In this work, we applied the use of organic acid to improve the production of sugar and bioethanol from palm trunk residues. After integration of organic acid pretreatment to palm trunk residue, we get the higher yield of sugars and ethanol and this increase the success rate to our process.
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Why is it important?
Biofuel is one of the mainstream of interest nowaday. However, production of biofuel from lignocellulosic biomass, ex. palm trunk residue is limited by the conversion rate to sugar. Here, we improved conversion rate by using organic acid pretreatment, to get higher sugars and ethanol. So this is the good start to kick off the biofuels production project from tough palm trunk residues.
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This page is a summary of: Organic acid pretreatment of oil palm trunk: effect on enzymatic saccharification and ethanol production, Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering, December 2017, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s00449-017-1881-0.
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