PROCESSES FOR CO-PRODUCING XYLITOL WITH ETHANOL OR OTHER FERMENTATION PRODUCTS

PROCESSES FOR CO-PRODUCING XYLITOL WITH ETHANOL OR OTHER FERMENTATION PRODUCTS

What is disclosed is a biorefining process to co-produce xylitol with ethanol or other products. In some variations, a process for producing ethanol and xylitol from lignocellulosic biomass, comprises: extracting hemicelluloses from lignocellulosic biomass, wherein the hemicelluloses include xylose...

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Hauptverfasser: RETSINA, Theodora, PYLKKANEN, Vesa
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Sprache:eng
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BIOCHEMISTRY
CHEMISTRY
ENZYMOLOGY
FERMENTATION OR ENZYME-USING PROCESSES TO SYNTHESISE A DESIREDCHEMICAL COMPOUND OR COMPOSITION OR TO SEPARATE OPTICAL ISOMERSFROM A RACEMIC MIXTURE
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MICROBIOLOGY
MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING
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VINEGAR
WINE
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Zusammenfassung:What is disclosed is a biorefining process to co-produce xylitol with ethanol or other products. In some variations, a process for producing ethanol and xylitol from lignocellulosic biomass, comprises: extracting hemicelluloses from lignocellulosic biomass, wherein the hemicelluloses include xylose oligomers and other sugar oligomers; hydrolyzing the xylose oligomers and the other sugar oligomers, using an acid catalyst or enzymes, to generate xylose and other sugar monomers, respectively; fermenting the other sugar monomers to ethanol using a suitable ethanol-producing microorganism; removing at least some of the ethanol (to increase concentration of xylose); fermenting the xylose to xylitol using a suitable xylitol-producing microorganism; and recovering the xylitol at high concentration.