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SMT 301 Final
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Undergraduate 3
04/28/2014

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Six steps in ethanol production
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Pretreatment, hydrolysis, separation, fermentation, distillation, dehydration
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Pretreatment
Definition
make biomass amenable to hydrolysis. Acid hydrolysis, steam explosion, AFEX, enzymes
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hydrolysis
Definition
to break down molecules of cellulose to glucose. Suite of enzymes used to convert, made by fungi, bacteria, and protozoans
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Separation
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Of glucose from junk, mainly lignin
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distillation
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to remove most water using column technology
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dehydration
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to remove remaining water(using molecular selves)
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Fermentation
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Of sugar, mostly by yeast fermentation
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