Pomegranate peels valorizationtowards the coproduction of bioethanol and lactic acid

  1. Tomás-Pejó, Elia 1
  2. Demiray, Ekin 2
  3. González-Fernández, Cristina 3
  1. 1 Instituto IMDEA Energía
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    Instituto IMDEA Energía

    Móstoles, España

    ROR https://ror.org/002tzev63

  2. 2 Health Services Vocational High School
  3. 3 Universidad de Valladolid
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    Universidad de Valladolid

    Valladolid, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01fvbaw18

Libro:
Actas del X Simposio Iberoamericano de Ingeniería de Residuos: Hacia la circularidad y el residuo cero. Castelló de la Plana, 20, 21 y 22 de junio de 2023
  1. Bovea Edo, María Dolores (ed. lit.)
  2. Braulio Gonzalo, Marta (ed. lit.)
  3. Carlos Alberola, Mar (ed. lit.)
  4. Colomer Mendoza, Francisco J. (ed. lit.)
  5. Gallardo Izquierdo, Antonio (ed. lit.)
  6. Ibáñez Forés, Valeria (ed. lit.)
  7. Monrós Tomás, Guillermo (ed. lit.)

Editorial: Servei de Comunicació i Publicacions ; Universitat Jaume I

ISBN: 978-84-09-53123-3

Año de publicación: 2023

Congreso: Simposio Iberoamericano de Ingeniería de Residuos (10. 2023. Castelló de la Plana)

Tipo: Aportación congreso

Resumen

Lignocellulose represents a nearly unlimited source of residual biomass to produce renewable energy and bio-based materials. However, the use of lignocellulose as feedstock for bioproducts involves the presence of multiple sugars (glucose, xylose). The lack of microorganisms that can efficiently utilize 5-carbons sugars and the need of optimized fermentation conditions are still challenging issues for lignocellulosic biorefineries. This study proposes the co-generation of bioethanol and lactic acid (LA) from pomegranate peel (PP) residues. PP is a cheap and abundant by-product of the food processing industry rich in cellulose and hemicellulose. This work firstly studied the effect of sequential inoculation and co-inoculation of Kluyveromyces marxianus CECT 10875 and Bacillus coagulans A20 to co-produce bioethanol and LA in synthetic media. Once the inoculation strategy and pH process were optimized, both bioethanol and LA were produced using PP hydrolysates obtained after enzymatic hydrolysis of PP at 10, 15 and 20% (w/w) substrate loading. In PP hydrolysates obtained from 10% (w/w) substrate loading, co-inoculation of K. marxianus and B. coagulans resulted in 13.7±1.0 g/L bioethanol and 5.5±0.2 g/L LA. On the other hand, when hydrolysates derived from 20% (w/w) PP, the maximum bioethanol and LA concentrations significantly increased to 32.9±2.6 g/L (80% of the maximum theoretical yield) and 15.0±2.0 g/L (98% of the maximum theoretical yield), respectively. Despite the different optimum conditions for K. marxianus and B. coagulans fermentation (e.g. pH and oxygen presence), simultaneous inoculation was a useful tool for bioethanol/LA co-generation and could help improving process efficiency in lignocellulosic biorefinery approaches.