Processing of lignocellulosics feedstocks for biofuels and co-products via consolidated bioprocessing with the thermophilic bacterium, Clostridium thermocellum strain DSMZ 1237

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dc.contributor.authorAgbor, Valery
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeButler, Michael (Microbiology) Chen, Ying (Biosystems Engineering) Berlin, Alex (Biosystems Engineering) Cheng, Jay J. (Biological and Agricultural Engineering, North Carolina State University)en_US
dc.contributor.supervisorLevin, David (Biosystems Engineering) Cicek, Nazim (Biosystems Engineering)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-07-30T19:44:13Z
dc.date.available2015-07-30T19:44:13Z
dc.date.issued2011en_US
dc.date.issued2014en_US
dc.degree.disciplineBiosystems Engineeringen_US
dc.degree.levelDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)en_US
dc.description.abstractProcessing of lignocellulosic biomass for transportation fuels and other biocommodities in integrated biorefineries has been proposed as the future for emerging sustainable economies. Currently bioprocessing strategies are all multi-step processes involving extensive physicochemical pretreatments and costly amounts of exogenous enzyme addition. Consolidated bioprocessing (CBP), or direct microbial conversion, is a strategy that combines all the stages of production into one step, thus avoiding the use of expensive pretreatments and exogenous enzymes that reduce the economic viability of the products produced. With a growing trend towards increased consolidation, most of the reported work on CBP has been conducted with soluble sugars or commercial reagent grade cellulose. For CBP to become practical fermentative guidelines with native feedstocks and purified cellulose need to be delineated through specific substrate characterization as it relates to possible industrial fermentation. By carefully reviewing the fundamentals of biomass pretreatments for CBP, a comparative assessment of the fermentability of non-food agricultural residue and processed biomass was conducted with Clostridium thermocellum DSMZ 1237. Cell growth, and both gaseous and liquid fermentation end-product profiles of C. thermocellum as a CBP processing candidate was characterised. Batch fermentation experiments to investigate the effect of cellulose content, pretreatment, and substrate concentration, revealed that higher yields were correlated with higher cellulose content. Pretreatment of native substrates that increased access of the bacterial cells and enzymes to cellulose chains in the biomass substrate were key parameters that determined the overall bioconversion of a given feedstock to end-products. The contribution of amorphous cellulose (CAC) in different biomass substrates subjected to the same pretreatment conditions was identified as a novel factor that contributed to differences in bioconversion and end-product synthesis patterns. Although the overall yield of end products was low following bioaugmentation with exogenous glycosyl hydrolases from free-enzyme systems and cellulosome extracts. Treatment of biomass substrates with glycosyl hydrolase enzymes was observed to increase the rate of bioconversion of native feedstocks in biphasic manner during fermentation with C. thermocellum. A “quotient of accessibility” was identified as a feedstock agnostic guideline for biomass digestibility.en_US
dc.description.noteOctober 2015en_US
dc.identifier.citationAgbor, VB, Cicek N, Sparling R, Berlin A, Levin DB. 2011. Biomass pretreatment: fundamentals toward application. Biotechnology advances 29, no. 6, 675-685;en_US
dc.identifier.citationLevin DB, Agbor VB, Carare C, Cicek N, Sparling R. 2014. Biomass Pretreatment for Consolidated Bioprocessing (CBP). Chapter 47, In, “Advances in Biorefineries: Biomass and waste supply chain exploitation”, KW Waldron (Ed.). Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge, UK. ISBN-13: 978 0 85709 521 3.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAgbor V, Zurzolo F, Blunt W, Dartiailh C, Cicek N, Sparling R, Berlin A, Levin DB. 2014. Single-step fermentation of hemp residues for hydrogen and ethanol production. Biomass and Bioenergy, 64, 62-69.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAgbor V, Blunt W, Cicek N, Sparling R, Berlin A, Levin DB. 2011. Processing of celluylosic feedstocks for ethanol and hydrogen production. Journal of Science and Technology for Forest Products and Processes, 1, 54-61en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/30647
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherBiotechnology Advances / ELSEVIERen_US
dc.publisherWoodhead Publishing, Cambridge, UK / ELSEVIERen_US
dc.publisherBiomass and Bioenergy / ELSEVIERen_US
dc.publisherJournal of Science and Technology for Forest Products and Processesen_US
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.subjectBiomassen_US
dc.subjectConsolidateden_US
dc.subjectBioprocessingen_US
dc.subjectBiofuelsen_US
dc.subjectFermentationen_US
dc.subjectpretreatmenten_US
dc.titleProcessing of lignocellulosics feedstocks for biofuels and co-products via consolidated bioprocessing with the thermophilic bacterium, Clostridium thermocellum strain DSMZ 1237en_US
dc.typedoctoral thesisen_US
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