TY  - GEN
A1  - Varriale, Ludovica
A1  - Kuka, Katrin
A1  - Tippkötter, Nils
A1  - Ulber, Roland
T1  - Use of a green biomass in a biorefinery platform
T2  - Chemie Ingenieur Technik
N2  - The emerging environmental issues due to the use of fossil resources are encouraging the exploration of new renewable resources. Biomasses are attracting more interest due to the low environmental impacts, low costs, and high availability on earth. In this scenario, green biorefineries are a promising platform in which green biomasses are used as feedstock. Grasses are mainly composed of cellulose and hemicellulose, and lignin is available in a small amount. In this work, a perennial ryegrass was used as feedstock to develop a green bio-refinery platform. Firstly, the grass was mechanically pretreated, thus obtaining a press juice and a press cake fraction. The press juice has high nutritional values and can be employed as part of fermentation media. The press cake can be employed as a substrate either in enzymatic hydrolysis or in solid-state fermentation. The overall aim of this work was to demonstrate different applications of both the liquid and the solid fractions. For this purpose, the filamentous fungus A. niger and the yeast Y. lipolythica were selected for their ability to produce citric acid. Finally, the possibility was assessed to use the press juice as part of fermentation media to cultivate S. cerevisiae and lactic acid bacteria for ethanol and lactic acid fermentation.
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1002/cite.202255095
SN  - 0009-286X
SN  - 1522-2640 (eISSN)
N1  - ProcessNet and DECHEMA‐BioTechNet Jahrestagungen 2022 together with 13th ESBES Symposium 2022, 12. - 15. September 2022, Eurogress Aachen
VL  - 94
IS  - 9
SP  - 1299
PB  - Wiley-VCH
CY  - Weinheim
ER  -