Converting Agro-Industrial Waste
To Lactic Acid (WTLA)
Bio Conversion Process
Bioducts’ Waste to Lactic Acid (WTLA) technology offers a complete wastewater treatment solution that works in continuous mode, combining thermal hydrolyser followed by fermenters. Our technology deals with a design of a thermophilic process for manufacturing lactic acid. Bioducts’ WTLA technology is a novel and promising alternative approach to produce lactic acid using the Bioducts’ thermophilic strain.
Fermentation
Agro-Industrial Waste
Thermal Hydrolysis
Downstream Processing
Pre-Treatment
Inoculation
Animal Feed
Lactic Acid
Principles of BioDucts' WTBE Technology
Recycled Water
BioDucts' bio-conversion process pretreats lignocellulosic biomass to alter structural characteristics of biomass and increase the gluten and xylan accessibility for hydrolysis process. Fermentable sugars generated through hydrolysis process are then converted to lactic acid employing fermenters using microbial biocatalysts.
Bio Refinery's Feedstock
|Low Cost
|Renewable
|Abundant
|Sustainable
Potential Resources
for Lactic Acid Production
Starch, sugars and ligno-cellulosic biomass containing cellulose, semi-cellulose and lignin
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Agricultural residues (wheat straw, rice straw, corn straw and sugarcane bagasse as major agricultural residues)
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Woody biomass
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Algae
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Municipal waste (organic matters)
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agro-industrial wastes (e.g. vinasse)
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Starchy industrial biomasses such as potato food factories, beverage and brewery factories
Delivering Lactic Acid
Technology Specifications
Bioducts’ WTLA technology is based on microorganisms that lives at high temperatures and that convert biomass based resources into valuable products very rapidly and without creating pollution by-products. Bioducts’ technology can ferment all edible and non-edible sugars which present in biomass.
Key features of our technology are
(i) genetically engineered microorganism
(ii) its proprietary genetic engineering technology
(iii) its application in a continuously operated high efficiency fermentation process.
The core of the refinery consists of a continuously operated anaerobic fermenter in which then are converted to microorganisms. The hemi cellulosic carbohydrates resulting from the hydrolysis into lactic acid, protein-rich animal feed and recycled water. The microorganisms are continuously concentrated and re-circulated by a centrifugal separator to maintain a high cell density in the fermenter.
Process Characterisitcs
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Fast conversion rate
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Less contamination risk
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utilisation of both pentose and hexose sugars
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Strain tolerating low pH and high concentration of inhibitors in lignocellulosic hydrolysate
Maximised Process Yield
Maximised Process Yield
lactic acid yield of about 90% g/g of dry matter
Protein-rich animal feed yield of about 10% g/g of dry matter
Less Energy
More Revenue
BioDucts
WTLA Technology
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Continuous thermal hydrolysis plant
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Fully integrated effluent treatment solution
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Manufacturing lactic acid starting from lignocellulosic biomass
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Thermophilic process with genetically modified thermophile
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key measures with respect to saving water and energy
L(+)
Lactic Acid
Advantages of BioDucts' Green technology in Production of D/L Lactic acid
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Lower energy consumption
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Utilisation of cheap and renewable substrate
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Lower production temperature
Commitment for Sustainable Solutions to Environmental Protection
and Agro-Industrial Treatment
Valorising Vinasse to Produce
Lactic Acid is a natural organic compound, which in its industrially produced forms, has a long history of use in the food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries. It is used extensively as a preservative and as an ingredient in solvents, and recently has been used increasingly to produce Poly Lactic Acid. It has two optical isomers, L(+) Lactic Acid and D(–) Lactic Acid.
BioDucts provides a microbial technology to produce a commercially valuable platform chemicals from agro-industrial wastes. BioDucts offers a sustainable solution by developing a green method to produce lactic acid which is one of the most important products because of its widespread applications. Food production sections utilize almost 70 percent of the lactic acid, which biodegradable and bio-compatible ploy lactic acid (PLA) polymers.it is produced from lactic acid which has a great potential as a raw material in packaging, as well as fibers and foams.
Lactic Acid
