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Effects of Surfactant on the Enzymatic Degradation of Oil Palm Empty Fruit Bunch (OPEFB)

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Various pretreatments have been employed to pretreat oil palm empty fruit bunch (OPEFB) to improve sugars production via enzymatic degradation reaction. However, less attention has been paid to investigate the effects of surfactant addition in the OPEFB degradation process. Therefore, the effects of surfactants on degradation of pretreated OPEFB by Aspergillus niger EFB1 crude cellulase were studied. Tween 80 was the most effective surfactant tested. When 0.25% (v/v) Tween 80 was added, the production of reducing sugar increased 63% (from 0.49 to 0.8 g/L). This was the optimum yield recorded. It also improved cellobiose, glucose and xylose production by two folds, seven folds and one fold higher than that without Tween 80, respectively. Tween 80 reduced the loss of cellulases activities where more than 17% of the original cellulases activities were retained after 7 days of degradation. Nonetheless, Tween 80 did not improve the protein concentration consistently. Supplementation of Tween 80 increased lignin removal by 23%. Observations using SEM revealed that, with Tween 80, the presence of pores and surface cracks were more pronounced on the surface of degraded OPEFB fibers. As a whole, the reported effects showed an improved production of reducing sugars in the presence of Tween 80. Thus, Tween 80 addition appeared as a promising method in enhancing the bioconversion of OPEFB into value-added co-products.

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Acknowledgements

This work was funded by the Ministry of Science, Technology & Environment of Malaysia (MOSTI) (Project No. 73717). The authors also acknowledge Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) for providing necessary laboratory equipment and facilities important to this work. Noratiqah Kamsani would like to thank Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia for awarding her the MyBrain 15 (MyPhD) scholarship.

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  1. Faculty of Biosciences and Medical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, 81310, Johor Darul Takzim, Malaysia

    Noratiqah Kamsani, Madihah Md. Salleh & Siti Aisyah Basri

  2. ENVBIO Research Group, Resource Sustainability, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, 81310, Johor Darul Takzim, Malaysia

    Madihah Md. Salleh

  3. Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Kuala Lumpur, 54100, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Shaza Eva Mohamad

  4. Department of Bioprocess Technology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, 43400, Selangor, Malaysia

    Suraini Abd Aziz

  5. National Nanotechnology Directorate, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, 62662, Putrajaya, Malaysia

    Kamarulzaman Kamaruddin

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Kamsani, N., Salleh, M.M., Basri, S.A. et al. Effects of Surfactant on the Enzymatic Degradation of Oil Palm Empty Fruit Bunch (OPEFB). Waste Biomass Valor 9, 845–852 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12649-017-9838-8

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