CA1093487A - Method of producing acetone and butanol from a cellulosic material - Google Patents

Method of producing acetone and butanol from a cellulosic material

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CA1093487A
CA1093487A CA293,799A CA293799A CA1093487A CA 1093487 A CA1093487 A CA 1093487A CA 293799 A CA293799 A CA 293799A CA 1093487 A CA1093487 A CA 1093487A
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Shinichiro Abe
Motoyoshi Takagi
Shuzo Suzuki
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Abstract

METHOD OF PRODUCING ACETONE AND BUTANOL
FROM A CELLULOSIC MATERIAL
Abstract of the Disclosure This invention is characterized by one-step production of acetone and butanol from a cellulosic material wherein a cellulase and an acetone-butanol producing microorganism are allowed to react simultaneously upon a cellulosic material and ferment the substrate to acetone and butanol.

Description

- ~0.'~348'7 Cellulose or cellulose-containing substance is one of the most abundant resources existing on earth and is used as a raw material in various fields of industry. As a means of utilizing such cellulose or cellulosic materials, various proposals have been reported concerning the pro-duction of ethanol, lactic acid, acetone, butanol and the like by hydrolyzing these materials to glucose, an ingredient of cellulose, and using the produced glucose as a raw material of the fermentation products. However, this method has a drawback in that, different from the case in which molasses is used as a raw material, cellulose or cellulosic material which is a starting substrate must be hydrolyzed to glucose first, so at least two steps, that is, hydrolysis and -fermentation that follows are required. Since cellulosic materials are difficult to decomposed, the obtained glucose is of low concentration which results in a low concentration of fermentation products. Especially, when the concentration of a produced acetone-butanol mixture is low, separation and purification of the mixture become difficult. Accordingly, this two-step method is impractical.
It has now been found that greater concentration of an acetone-butanol mixture can be obtained from a cellu-losic material by one-step process when the cellulosic material is simultaneously reacted upon by a cellulase and an acetone-butanol producing microorganism. Therefore, the present invention proposes a method wherein acetone and butanol can -be produced advantageously from a cellulosic material by one-step process.
"Cellulosic materials" used as starting materials in this invention means cellu]ose or substances composed predominantly of cellulose which include wood, rice straw, . --`` 1()93487 r~ce ~usk, corn stalk, corn cobs and paper wastes such as newspaper, ~aste corrugated paper, waste magazine, short fiber from paper manufacturing plants and fibrous wastes from cities and industries. For these substances to be used effectively ~s substrates, it is desirable to pulverize or disintegrate them.
For saccharifying these cellulosic substrates, use of a commercially available cellulase such as Cellulase Onozuka will suffice. A liquid enzymatic preparation such as liquid culture filtrate or solid culture extract from a cellulase-producing microorganism such as T.viride may be used, Also a liquid culture or solid culture of T. viride itself may be used as a crude whole culture mixture without `~
separation, extraction, or purification.
As an acetone-butanol producing microorganism to ~-be simultaneously used with the cellulase, there can be employed the well-known microorganism, for example, Clostridium acetobutylicum and Clostridium saccharoacetobutylicum.
In order for the cellulosic substrate to be -~
simultaneously reacted upon by a cellulase and an acetone-butanol producing microorganism, an aqueous suspension con-taining 1 to 50% (weight) cellulosic material, appropriate amounts of nitrogen source, inorganic salts and other nutrient is prepared and sterilized by a conventional method so as to serve as the substrate. A cellulase (or cellulase-containing liquid) is added to the substrate and at the same time, an acetone-butanol producing microorganism cultured in advance is added there so that the fermentation will proceed.
The temperature and pH conditions depend on the microorganism and the kind of cellulase to be used, but generally, it is desirable to choose the optimum condition 334l~37 from the range of 30 to 55C and pH 4 to 6. Fermentation times also differ depending upon the kind of cellulosic material, an acetone-butanol producing microorganism and activities of a cellulase, but usually the desired amount of acetone-butanol is produced in 48 hours.
As can be seen in Example below, this invention not only simplifies the production processes but also reduces the inhibition of glucose on cellulase reaction as well as on the acetone-butanol producing microorganism comparing to the conventional method which consists of two-step process, i.e.
saccharification and fermentation, because in this invention the concentration of sugar in the medium is kept low through-out the fermentation process. As a result, yields of acetone-butanol per cellulose markedly increase.
This invention relates to a method for the economical and advantageous one-step production of acetone and butanol from a cellulosic material.
The present invention will now be described specifically with reference to preferred embodiments.
EXAMPLE
PREPARATION OF SEED CULTURE.
Clostridium acetobutylicum IFO 3854, acetone-butanol producing microorganism was inoculated on 10 ml of a sterilized medium composed of the following components and cultivated anaerobically at 37C for 3 days.
Medium composition:
Glucose 20g Polypeptone 5g KH2 4 g K2HPO4 0.5g MgSO4.7H2O 0.2g .

10'~34~37 MnSO4.4 - 5 H2O 10mg FeSO4.7H2O 10mg NaCl lOmg Deionized water 1 liter pH 6.5 From a medium consisting of the above components, 50 ml was allowed into a 100 ml flask and 5 ml of the above-mentioned culture solution was added to it to cultivate anaerobically at 37C for 3 days. This was made a seed culture.
(1) Medium A
A medium having the same composition as above except 60g glu~ose instead of 20g.
(2) Medium B
A medium having the same composition as mentioned above except 100g cellulose powder (below 100 mesh) instead of glucose.
CELLULASE AND ITS ACTIVITY.
A commercially available cellulase was salted out by ammonium sulfate and desalted; then it was liophilized to make a pure cellulase.
One gram of this cellulase was dissolved into 100 ml water with pH adjusted to 4.5, and 10g cellulose powder (below 100 mesh) was added to it. Then a saccharifi-cation was conducted at 45C for 48 hours. When the saccharification was finished the reaction solution was analyzed by a liquid chromatography, and 3.2g glucose was found to form. In other words, this cellulase had the activity as mentioned above.
30 FERMENTl~TION PROCESS.
One gram of the above described cellulase and 5 ml ~ 348'7 of the seed culture prepared as stated before were added to 100 ml of the well agitated medium B. The mixture was adjusted to pH 6.5 and then was allowed fermentation anaerobically at 37C for 48 hours while controlling pH
not to drop below 4.5.
EXAMPLE FOR COMPARISON.
(1) The above described Medium B was agitated thoroughly and 100 ml of it was added with 3g of the above-mentioned cellulase. The mixture was adjusted to pH 4.5 and was allowed saccharification at 45C for 48 hours. When the resultant sugar solution was analyzed, the production of 6.3g glucose was observed. The sugar solution (glucose content 6.3g )was thermally sterilized and 5 ml of the seed culture prepared as described earlier was added to it. Then an acetone-butanol fermentation was conducted anaerobically at 37C for 48 hours.
(2) Five mili-liter of the seed culture prepared as described above was inoculated to 100 ml of the above-mentioned Medium A which had been thermally sterilized. The mixture was adjusted to pH 6.5, and was allowed to react anaerobically at 37C for 48 hours controlling pH not to drop below 4.5. The results of the examples are summarized in the following table. Products were analyzed by gaschromatography.
3~97 TABLE

Product Substrate Cellulase Acetone Butanol (mg/ml)(mg/ml) ¦

this inven-Cellulose tion lOg lg 4.43 7.53 Example (1)Cellulose lOg 3g 3.20 5.52 Example (2~Glucose 3.24 5.50 .
As can be seen from the above table, the present invention produces acetone and butanol 1.4 times as much as those obtained by the conventional method wherein cellulose is previously hydrolyzed to glucose to use as the substrate (Example 1) or glucose itself is employed as the substrate (Example 2~. Accordingly, this invention has an advantage in that acetone and butanol are produced by a simple one-step process, that the yields of the products are much im-proved and that the consumption of cellulase is less comparing to the conventional methods.

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THE EMBODIMENTS OF THE INVENTION IN WHICH AN EXCLUSIVE PROPERTY
OR PRIVILEGE IS CLAIMED ARE DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:
1. A one-step production of acetone and butanol from a cellulosic material wherein the cellulosic material, a cellulase, and an acetone-butanol producing microorganism are allowed to react simultaneously thereby saccharifying and fermenting the cellulosic material to acetone and butanol.
2. A method of manufacture of acetone and butanol from a cellulosic material wherein a greater than expected yield of product is produced comprising combining in one reaction vessel the cellulosic material, a cellulase, and an acetone-butanol producing microorganism, allowing the reaction to occur and recovering therefrom acetone and butanol.
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