Ji-Eun Lee 1†, Sang-Eun Lee 1†, Woon Yong Choi 2, Do Hyung Kang 3, Hyeon-Yong Lee 2 and Kyung-Hwan Jung
1Department of Biotechnology, Chungju National University, Jeungpyung, Chungbuk 368-701, Republic of Korea
2Division of Biomaterials Engineering, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon 200-701, Republic of Korea
3Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute, Ansan, Gyeonggi-do 426-744, Republic of Korea
Correspondence to khjung@cjnu.ac.ckr
Korean Journal of Mycology (Kor J Mycol) December 1, 2011, 39(3):243-248.
https://doi.org/10.4489/KJM.2010.39.3.243
Received: 2, September 2011; Revised: 19, September 2011; Accepted: 17, October 2011
Published: December 1, 2011.
© The Korean Society of Mycology
We studied the repeated-batch process for the bioethanol production from the hydrolysate of Ulva pertusa Kjellman using yeast Pichia stipitis, which is able to assimilate C6- and C5-monosaccharides. During 180-hour operations, the repeated-batch process was carried out stably, and the average bioethanol concentration reached 11.9 g/L from about 30 g/L of reducing sugar in the hydrolysate. Meanwhile, the bioethanol yields, based on the reducing sugar and the quantitative TLC analysis, were 0.40 and 0.37, respectively, which corresponded to 78.4% and 72.5% of theoretical value, respectively. Throughout the quantitative process analysis, it was also demonstrated that 39.67 g-bioethanol could be produced from 1 kg of dried Ulva pertusa Kjellman. In this study, we verified that the bioethanol production from the hydrolysate of Ulva pertusa Kjellman was feasible using a yeast Pichia stipitis, particularly during the repeated-batch operation.
Bioethanol, Pichia stipitis, Repeated-batch, Ulva pertusa Kjellman