Development of pretreatment of empty fruit bunches for enhanced enzymatic saccharification

• Main Authors: Rashid, Shah S, Alam, Md Zahangir, Abdulkarim, Mohd Ismail, Mohd. Salleh, Hamzah
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Academic Journals 2011
• Subjects: TP248.13 Biotechnology
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/14380/1/AJB-Rashid_et_al.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/14380/; http://dx.doi.org/10.5897/AJB11.2745
• Institution: Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia

To achieve an accomplished optimized condition for enzymatic saccharification of palm oil mill empty fruit bunches (EFB) for higher yield of sugar hydrolysis, a comprehensive pretreatment of EFB was carried out using the laboratory produced cellulase enzyme through bioconversion of palm oil mill...