Methane production from wheat straw pretreated with CaO/cellulase.

Journal: RSC advances
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Abstract

There are various lignocellulosic biomass pretreatments that act as attractive strategies to improve anaerobic digestion for methane (CH) generation. This study proposes an effective technique to obtain more CH the hydrothermal coupled calcium peroxide (CaO) co-cellulase pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass. The total organic carbon in the hydrolysate of samples treated with 6% CaO and 15 mg enzyme per g-cellulose was 7330 mg L, which represented an increase of 92.39% over the total organic carbon value of samples hydrolyzed with the enzyme alone. The promotion of the anaerobic digestion of wheat straw followed this order: hydrothermal coupled CaO co-cellulase pretreatment > hydrothermal coupled CaO pretreatment > enzymatic pretreatment alone > control group. The sample treated with 6% CaO and 15 mg enzyme per g-cellulose gave the highest CH production with a CH yield of 214 mL g total solids, which represented an increase of 64.81% compared to the control group. The CH yield decreased slightly when the amount of added cellulase exceeded 15 mg enzyme per g-cellulose.

Authors

  • Zhenmin Li
    College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Science) Jinan 250353 China lyzhangjishi@163.com +86 531 89631680 +86 531 89631680.
  • Jishi Zhang
    College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Science) Jinan 250353 China lyzhangjishi@163.com +86 531 89631680 +86 531 89631680.
  • Chunduo Kong
    College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Science) Jinan 250353 China lyzhangjishi@163.com +86 531 89631680 +86 531 89631680.
  • Wenqing Li
    College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Science) Jinan 250353 China lyzhangjishi@163.com +86 531 89631680 +86 531 89631680.
  • Jinwei Wang
    Weifang Ensign Industry Co., Ltd Weifang 250353 China.
  • Lihua Zang
    College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Science) Jinan 250353 China lyzhangjishi@163.com +86 531 89631680 +86 531 89631680.

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