Impact of double alkaline peroxide pretreatment on enzymatic hydrolysis of palm fibre

A double pretreatment was developed to improve the efficiency of enzymatic hydrolysis and to increase the sugars production from palm fibre in batch and fed-batch systems. After alkaline peroxide pretreatment using NaOH-H2O2 solution, rigid structure of palm fibre was broken and partial of the hemicelluloses and lignin were removed. Compared with cellulase Accellerase (R) 1500, when using the conjunction of Accellerase (R) 1500 and Optimash BG, the conversion ratio increased from 35.9% to 45.0% and the reducing sugar yield increased from 245 mg/g substrate to 307 mg/g substrate. To further increase the hydrolysis efficiency, double pretreatment with NaOH-H2O2 solution was used to treat the hydrolysized residues. Then, the hydrolysis ratio reached 93% and reducing sugar yield was 752 mg/g substrate. Fed-batch enzymatic hydrolysis was carried out with 7% (w/v) solids loading and 0.3 mL/g substrate. Then, 7% solids were fed consecutively at 12 h, 24 h, 36 h and 48 h. After 144 h, the final concentration of reducing sugar reached 214.0 g/L and total biomass conversion ratio was 75.23%. (C) 2018 The Authors. Publishing services by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of KeAi Communications Co. Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).