Abstract:
The process of cellulose ethanol production by simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (SSF) was studied in this paper, and the optimum conditions of the process were found by single-factor experiment and orthogonal test. The conditions were as follows: reaction temperature 37℃, pH value 4.8, loading of substrate 15%, loading of 0.15% Tween-20 as surfactant, loading of cellulose 30 U/g, the yeast active by 2% glucose, yeast inoculums 5‰, and the medium compositions were KH2PO4 2.5 g/L, (NH4)2SO4 2.0 g/L, MgSO4·7H2O 0.15 g/L, CaCl2 0.35 g/L. Under the optimum conditions, the volume of ethanol is 2.85(v/v), then the ethanol yield can reach to 88.12% of the theoretic results after 60 h.