TY - JOUR
T1 - Integrated acidogenic digestion and carboxylic acid separation by nanofiltration membranes for the lignocellulosic carboxylate platform
AU - Xiong, Boya
AU - Richard, Tom L.
AU - Kumar, Manish
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors gratefully acknowledge the effort from Xia Shang, Rajarshi Guha and Yuexiao Shen in constructing and maintaining the cross-flow and dead-end filtration unit. The assistance from Dr. Xiuping Zhu on sample analysis and by Mark Signs on biomass pretreatment is also deeply appreciated. This project was supported by Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grant no. 2012-68005-19703 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture .
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© 2015 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2015/9/1
Y1 - 2015/9/1
N2 - The major goal of this work was to evaluate the ability of two commercially available nanofiltration membranes (NF) to efficiently separate a mixture of carboxylic acids while simultaneously retaining sugars in actual lignocellulosic biomass digestion liquor. The process achieved separation by high sugar rejection (>90%) and low acid rejection (0-40%), with the exception of butyric acid (100% rejection). Lower pH led to a significantly lower acetic and lactic acid rejection. The recovery of acids was further enhanced by operating at low pressure. Salt addition did not have a strong influence on acid and sugar rejection. Integrating separation with digestion recovered 86% of the acid during a 21 day digestion run, reducing acid concentration in the digestate by nearly 90% relative to a control without acid removal. These results demonstrate proof of concept for use of NF based anaerobic membrane bioreactors to recover carboxylic acids produced from the lignocellulosic carboxylate platform.
AB - The major goal of this work was to evaluate the ability of two commercially available nanofiltration membranes (NF) to efficiently separate a mixture of carboxylic acids while simultaneously retaining sugars in actual lignocellulosic biomass digestion liquor. The process achieved separation by high sugar rejection (>90%) and low acid rejection (0-40%), with the exception of butyric acid (100% rejection). Lower pH led to a significantly lower acetic and lactic acid rejection. The recovery of acids was further enhanced by operating at low pressure. Salt addition did not have a strong influence on acid and sugar rejection. Integrating separation with digestion recovered 86% of the acid during a 21 day digestion run, reducing acid concentration in the digestate by nearly 90% relative to a control without acid removal. These results demonstrate proof of concept for use of NF based anaerobic membrane bioreactors to recover carboxylic acids produced from the lignocellulosic carboxylate platform.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.memsci.2015.04.022
DO - 10.1016/j.memsci.2015.04.022
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84938539747
VL - 489
SP - 275
EP - 283
JO - Journal of Membrane Science
JF - Journal of Membrane Science
SN - 0376-7388
ER -