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a b s t r a c tThe decomposition of lignocellulosic raw material included: mechanical grinding of plant biomass, delignification (removal of lignin e this process was conducted in alkaline environment) and detoxification process (removal of alcoholic fermentation inhibitory compounds).The study on producing ethanol from corn straw was based on SSF method which involved conducting simultaneous enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose and fermentation of obtained saccharides.Based on the study of corn straw alcoholic fermentation it was determined that the way of preparing the raw material in the initial stage of simultaneous saccharification and fermentation, significantly influences the improvement of fermentation yield.In comparison with an attempt in which biomass detoxification process was not implemented, the attempt with detoxification resulted in gaining higher fermentation yield and in lowering the content of aldehydes, methanol and furfural in the produced spirit.Moreover, in the attempts in which detoxification of raw material was used, better actual speed, productivity and the yield of alcoholic fermentation of corn straw was noted. The conducted detoxification in the process of lignocellulosic biomass decomposition improved fermentation yield.

The objective of this study was to obtain two types of fuels, i.e., bioethanol and biogas, in a sequential combination of biochemical processes from lignocellulosic biomass (corn straw). Waste from the agricultural sector containing lignocellulose structures was used to obtain bioethanol, while the post-fermentation (cellulose stillage) residue obtained from ethanol fermentation was a raw material for the production of high-power biogas in the methane fermentation process. The studies on obtaining ethanol from lignocellulosic substrate were based on the simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (SSF) method, which is a simultaneous hydrolysis of enzymatic cellulose and fermentation of the obtained sugars. Saccharomyces cerevisiae (D-2) in the form of yeast cream was used for bioethanol production. The yeast strain D-2 originated from the collection of the Institute of Agricultural and Food Biotechnology. Volatile compounds identified in the distillates were measured using gas chromatography with flame ionization detector (GC-FID). CH4 and CO2 contained in the biogas were analyzed using a gas chromatograph in isothermal conditions, equipped with thermal conductivity detector (katharometer) with incandescent fiber. Our results show that simultaneous saccharification and fermentation enables production of bioethanol from agricultural residues with management of cellulose stillage in the methane fermentation process.