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ArticleArchives of microbiology2023

Comparative study of ethanol production from sodium hydroxide pretreated rice straw residue using Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Zymomonas mobilis.

Naveen Kumar, Anita Yadav, Gulab Singh, Ajay Singh, Pankaj Kumar, Neeraj K Aggarwal

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Article in Archives of microbiology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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  1. Sustainable and cost-effective production of bacterial cellulose by using rice straw hydrolysate: a response surface approach.Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] · 2025
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6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Naveen KumarLaboratory of Fermentation Technology, Department of Microbiology, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana, 136119, India.
Anita YadavDepartment of Biotechnology, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana, 136119, India.
Gulab SinghDepartment of Biotechnology, Maharaja Agrasen University, Baddi, Himachal Pradesh, 174103, India.
Ajay SinghDepartment of Food Technology, Mata Gujri College, Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab, 140406, India.
Pankaj KumarDepartment of Microbiology, Dolphin (PG) Institute of Biomedical and Natural Sciences, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, 248007, India. nkumar@kuk.ac.in.
Neeraj K AggarwalLaboratory of Fermentation Technology, Department of Microbiology, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana, 136119, India. guptapankaj23@gmail.com.
Kurukshetra University · INDolphin (PG) Institute of Bio Medical and Natural Science · INMaharaja Agrasen University

Funding

This work was supported by Haryana State Council for Science, Innovation and Technology (HSCSIT), Panchkula HSCSIT/R&D/2012/2376-77/ 20-12-12
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rice straw is a suitable alternative to a cheaper carbohydrate source for the production of ethanol. For pretreatment efficiency, different sodium hydroxide concentrations (0.5-2.5% w/v) were tested. When compared to other concentrations, rice straw processed with 2% NaOH (w/v) yielded more sugar (8.17 ± 0.01 mg/ml). An alkali treatment induces effective delignification and swelling of biomass. The pretreatment of rice straw with 2% sodium hydroxide (w/v) is able to achieve 55.34% delignification with 53.30% cellulose enrichment. The current study shows the effectiveness of crude cellulolytic preparation from Aspergillus niger resulting in 80.51 ± 0.4% cellulose hydrolysis. Rice straw hydrolysate was fermented using ethanologenic Saccharomyces cerevisiae (yeast) and Zymomonas mobilis (bacteria). Overall, superior efficiency of sugar conversion to ethanol 70.34 ± 0.3% was obtained with the yeast compared to bacterial strain 39.18 ± 0.5%. The current study showed that pretreatment with sodium hydroxide is an effective method for producing ethanol from rice straw and yeast strain S. cerevisiae having greater fermentative potential for bioethanol production than bacterial strain Z. mobilis.

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OryzaZymomonasCarbohydratesCelluloseEthanolFermentationHydrolysisSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSodium HydroxideSugarsCarbohydratesCelluloseEthanolSodium HydroxideSugarsEnzymatic hydrolysisEthanolFermentationPretreatmentRice straw

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PMID36971832
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