185453

PRODUCTION OF EDIBLE SUGARS FROM BIOMASS USING PILOT – SCALE UNIT

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Chemical Engineering.

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The production of bio-based chemicals and fuel from biomass is considered cleaner production technology for environmental protection. In the present study, establishing a new process to convert biomass to highly pure sugars and solid biofuel by concentrated acid hydrolysis was investigated. The sugar production process was based on two-steps concentrated H2SO4 hydrolysis of rice straw followed by separation and purification of sugars. Moreover, ethanol was separated from acids by using a distillation unit. The hydrolyzer unit can convert 10 kg/h rice straw to sugars, and their final yield was 1 kg sugars per batch. An economic method for separation of sugars by precipitation using ethanol and highly efficient acid recovery (90 %) and ethanol (95-98%) was achieved without using resins. High-performance liquid chromatography analysis for hydrolysate revealed that it contains 77% xylose, which can be used as natural diet sugars. The production of 70 -100 kg natural diet sugars and 700 kg solid biofuel (Calorific value of 6952 kJ/kg) were obtained from 1000 kg rice straw. The results from the pilot plant could be considered as a step towards the commercialization of the process.

DOI

10.21608/jaet.2021.52987.1075

Keywords

Biomass, edible sugars, Solid Fuel, pilot-scale unit

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nagat

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Abdalla

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Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Minia University, Egypt

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dr_eng_hanem@yahoo.com

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M.H.

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Abd ELmoez

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Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Minia University, Egypt

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tahafarouk1@yahoo.com

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41

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2

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26758

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2021-07-01

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2020-12-20

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2021-07-01

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55

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63

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2682-2091

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2812-5487

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Journal of Advanced Engineering Trends

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PRODUCTION OF EDIBLE SUGARS FROM BIOMASS USING PILOT – SCALE UNIT

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22 Jan 2023