scholarly journals Characterization of very high gravity ethanol fermentation of corn mash. Effect of glucoamylase dosage, pre-saccharification and yeast strain

2005 ◽  
Vol 68 (5) ◽  
pp. 622-629 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rasmus Devantier ◽  
Sven Pedersen ◽  
Lisbeth Olsson
2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 351-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ke Wang ◽  
Li Jiang ◽  
Zhong-Gui Mao ◽  
Cheng-Ming Zhang ◽  
Jian-Hua Zhang ◽  
...  

2009 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 719-723 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhongyang Ding ◽  
Liang Zhang ◽  
Yaye Fang ◽  
Ling Xu ◽  
Kechang Zhang ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chen-Guang Liu ◽  
Xue-Mi Hao ◽  
Yen-Han Lin ◽  
Feng-Wu Bai

Abstract Ethanol fermentation requires oxygen to maintain high biomass and cell viability, especially under very-high-gravity (VHG) condition. In this work, fermentation redox potential (ORP) was applied to drive the aeration process at low dissolved oxygen (DO) levels, which is infeasible to be regulated by a DO sensor. The performance and characteristics of flocculating yeast grown under 300 and 260 g glucose/L conditions were subjected to various aeration strategies including: no aeration; controlled aeration at −150, −100 and −50 mV levels; and constant aeration at 0.05 and 0.2 vvm. The results showed that anaerobic fermentation produced the least ethanol and had the highest residual glucose after 72 h of fermentation. Controlled aerations, depending on the real-time oxygen demand, led to higher cell viability than the no-aeration counterpart. Constant aeration triggered a quick biomass formation, and fast glucose utilization. However, over aeration at 0.2 vvm caused a reduction of final ethanol concentration. The controlled aeration driven by ORP under VHG conditions resulted in the best fermentation performance. Moreover, the controlled aeration could enhance yeast flocculating activity, promote an increase of flocs size, and accelerate yeast separation near the end of fermentation.


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