Bio-based treatment technologies are gaining great interest worldwide, and significant efforts are being afforded to develop technology for the use of lignocellulosic biomass. The potential of corn stover (CS) as a feedstock for bioethanol production was investigated by creating an optimal pretreatment condition to maximize glucose production. The current study undertook the impact of novel physico-chemical pretreatment methods of CS, i.e., autoclave-assisted oxalate (CSOA) and ultrasound-assisted oxalate (CSOU), on the chemical composition of CS and subsequent saccharification and fermentation for bioethanol production. The delignification was monitored by physicochemical characterizations such as SEM, XRD, FTIR, CHNs, and TGA. The results evidenced that delignification and enzymatic saccharification of the CS pretreated by CSOA was higher than CSOU. The optimum enzymatic saccharification operating conditions were 1:30 g solid substrate/mL sodium acetate buffer at 50 °C, shaking speed 100 rpm, and 0.4 g enzyme dosage. This condition was applied to produce glucose from CS, followed by bioethanol production by S. cerevisiae using an anaerobic fermentation process after 72 h. S. cerevisiae showed high conversion efficiency by producing a 360 mg/dL bioethanol yield, which is considered 94.11% of the theoretical ethanol yield. Furthermore, this research provides a potential path for waste material beneficiation, such as through utilizing CS.
Adsorbent materials for industrial and environmental applications are the goal of seeking research under active investigation now. Activated carbons could be obtained from the organic material after been chemically or physically treated. In Egypt, Sugarcane bagasse could be considered one of the agricultural wastes that frequently produced. In this study, the low-cost adsorbent was prepared from raw Bagasse. The batch experiment was set up to determine the effect of using the agriculture waste (sugarcane bagasse) without any modification and activated it chemically and physically on methylene blue removal. The influence of adsorbent amount, agitation rate, and temperature on the dye removal were studied. The result shows that the percentage of dye removal reached up to %99.6 when the initial dye concentration was 15 ppm, and the amount of sorbent (chemically activated) was 0.3 g at room temperature. The adsorption kinetics and isotherms for the removal of methylene blue were represented with different models. It was detected that Langmuir and Freundlich's equations have the R 2 value closed to unity, and the maximum adsorption calculated capacity was 2.2 mg/g when the initial dye concentration was 15 ppm. Furthermore, pseudo-first-order and pseudo-second-order were fitted to examine the adsorption kinetic, and a pseudo-secondorder calculated the highest adsorption rate for the raw bagasse (0.59446 g/mg.min).
Lignin's availability in large amounts from industrial black liquor as waste from the paper industry is still a problem. On the other hand, its utilization potentials as a green low-cost adsorbent for the effective removal of toxic organic dye from industrial wastewater has become a topic of great interest but remains quite challenging. In this sense, this work aimed to evaluate the feasibility of removing the reactive green dye (RGD) onto the functionalized lignin-based adsorbent (FLA) by the acidic method. The kinetic study suggested the adsorption process confirmed to a pseudo-second-order-kinetic and intra-particle diffusion models. Also, the isotherm results showed that the FLA exhibited multi-layer adsorption. Meanwhile, the results of FTIR and SEM showed that the RG-19 adsorption mechanisms were electrostatic interaction, hydrogen bonding, π-π stacking, and physical adsorption. Thermodynamic parameters were also evaluated and their values indicated that adsorption of RG-19 onto FLA is an exothermic process and spontaneous in nature. As a renewable, low-cost, and natural biomass material, FLA has the potential to be used as a promising sustainable and economic application of biomass and will inspire more scholars to investigate solutions to the problem of contaminated water resources.
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