Is there any commercial level prodction of bioethanol from lignocellulosic materials through SSF?
Well I do not think that there is any commercial level plant for ethanol production from biomass by SSF, though there are on SHF (separate hydrolysis and fermentation) for ethanol via biomass. Ethanol from biomass is well established but Gurpreet I would be thankful if you will elaborate on what do you mean here solid state fermentation. As we all know that SSF has been exclusively used for production of hydrolysing enzymes which are further used to hydrolyse biomass and then fermented to ethanol, but the whole process in just single SSF?? I am confused!
Ethanol comes from first and second generation biomass. Even from petrol by chemical reactions. To the best of my knowledge the second generation ethanol is still in demonstrative scale.
I am interesting in this topic as well. But i also doubt that whether the solid state fermentation of the lignocellose is better the liquid one.
I've known that solid fermentation is a method assayed as pretreatment of lignocellulosics, using certanin fungi that are able to enzymatically decompose lignin. I am not sure if much ethanol can be achieved in solid substrates, then I share Chang Elven's opinion.
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