Valagro Carbone Renouvelable Poitou-Charentes

Alexandre Briand

Jacques Barbier

Frederic Bataille

Stephane Soum

A recycled textile cotton used for producing ethanol by the execution of a process that includes a step of pretreatment of textile cotton by pulping in an extruder, which may or may not involve a grinding step prior to pulping in the extruder, a step of enzymatic hydrolysis, a step of filtration(s), and a step of fermentation.

Process for producing ethanol from textile cotton

A process for producing from a lignocellulosic raw material of (i) an intermediate product that is intended for the production of ethanol, containing polysaccharides, cellulose and hemicelluloses, and (ii) a product containing lignin in an aqueous solution without sulfur residue, this lignin could be precipitated. The process includes a step of pulping the raw material in an extruder at a temperature of between 60&#xb0; C. and 180&#xb0; C. and in the presence of a quantity of water that represents between 200% and 450% of the mass of said raw material and in the presence of a strong base at a concentration of between 0.5% and 4% relative to the volume of water.

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Saint Cyr, France

Alexandre Briand