Conversion of lignocellulosic agave residues into liquid biofuels using an AFEX™-based biorefinery.

Carlos A Flores-GómezEleazar M Escamilla SilvaCheng ZhongBruce E DaleLeonardo da Costa SousaVenkatesh Balan

Published in: Biotechnology for biofuels (2018)

These results show that AFEX-pretreated agave residues can be effectively hydrolyzed at high solids loading using an optimized commercial enzyme cocktail (at 25 mg protein/g glucan) producing > 85% sugar conversions and over 40 g/L bioethanol titers. These results show that AFEX technology has considerable potential to convert lignocellulosic agave residues to bio-based fuels and chemicals in a biorefinery.

Keyphrases

anaerobic digestion
ionic liquid
protein protein
small molecule
cell wall