TY - JOUR
TI - Optimization of ethanol fermentation with reducing sugars from Camellia (Camellia oleifera) seed meal using response surface methodology
AU - Peng Ling
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2018
VL - 22
IS - 12
SP - 639
EP - 647
PT - Article
AB - Camellia seed meal is studied as raw material for fermentation of ethanol. In  the experiments, the effect of different variables, such as the ratio of  calcium to magnesium ion, ammonium chloride addition ratio, and yeast  addition ratio on ethanol yield of the reducing sugar fermentation from  Camellia seed meal were investigated by a single-factor test and a response  surface methodology, respectively. The results indicated that the optimal  fermentation conditions of the reducing sugar from Camellia seed meal were  the ratio of calcium and magnesium ion 1:1, the ammonium chloride addition  ratio 0.70%, the yeast addition ratio 0.4%. And the yield of ethanol was  95.4% under the optimum fermentation conditions (1:1, 0.70% ammonium  chloride, 0.4% yeast) given by using response surface methodology (RSM).  Moreover, variation coefficient was 0.59%, which showed the results were  significantly consistent with the predicted value of RSM. It indicated that  response surface methodology was reliable to optimize the fermentation  conditions of ethanol yield.