Enhanced bioenergy recovery from rapeseed plant in a biorefinery concept

Gang Luo, Farid Talebnia, Dimitar Borisov Karakashev, L. Xie, Q Zhou, Irini Angelidaki

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    Abstract

    The present study investigated the utilization of the whole rapeseed plant (seed and straw) for multi-biofuels production in a biorefinery concept. Results showed that bioethanol production from straw was technically feasible with ethanol yield of 0.15 g ethanol/g dry straw after combined alkaline peroxide and stream pretreatment. The byproducts (rapeseed cake, glycerol, hydrolysate and stillage) were evaluated for hydrogen and methane production. In batch experiments, the energy yields from each feedstock for, either methane production alone or for both hydrogen and methane, were similar. However, results from continuous experiments demonstrated that the two-stage hydrogen and methane fermentation process could work stably at organic loading rate up to 4.5 gVS/(L d), while the single-stage methane production process failed. The energy recovery efficiency from rapeseed plant increased from 20% in the conventional biodiesel process to 60% in the biorefinery concept, by utilization of the whole rapeseed plant for biodiesel, bioethanol, biohydrogen and methane production.
    Original languageEnglish
    JournalBioresource Technology
    Volume102
    Issue number2
    Pages (from-to)1433-1439
    ISSN0960-8524
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2011

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