Liquid samples, including 50 mM propionic acid as internal standard, were analyzed with respect to glucose and organic acids using an Agilent 1290 LC II system (Agilent, USA), with an Agilent 1290 Infinity Binary Pump,
Agilent 1290 Infinity Autosampler,
Agilent 1290 Infinity diode array detector operated at 210 nm, and an
Agilent 1260 Infinity RI detector operated at 45 °C [3 (
link)]. The HPLC was operated with an Aminex HPX-97H (Bio-Rad, USA) column at 60 °C and 0.008 mM H2SO4 as mobile phase at 0.8 mL/min as flow rate.
Analysis of ethanol and ethyl acetate in the liquid phase was carried out by an
Agilent 7890B gas chromatograph (Agilent, USA) equipped with a flame ionization detector (GC-FID) and an
Agilent 7693 autosampler [9 (
link)]. Samples were injected into a
NukolTM column (30 m × 0.53 mm, 1.0 μm coating, Supelco, USA). Column temperature was maintained at 50 °C for 2 min, then increased to 200 °C at the rate of 50 °C/min, with a split ratio of 10. As internal standard 2 mM 1-butanol was added.
Online measurements of volatile compounds and gases removed from the reactor vessel by gas stripping were performed with an
δB Process Mass Spectrometer (MS, Thermo Scientific™, USA) [3 (
link)].
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