Title
Valorization of horse chestnut burs to produce simultaneously valuable compounds under a green integrated biorefinery approach
Date Issued
15 August 2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Gullón P.
Gullón B.
Muñiz-Mouro A.
Eibes G.
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
A biorefinery scheme for the valorization of horse chestnut biowastes (a municipal solid waste) into added value bioactive compounds is proposed in this work. The bur fraction of horse chestnut was evaluated as a novel and cheap renewable feedstock to obtain valuable compounds suitable for their use in industrial applications. The integrated valorization scheme comprised an initial hydroethanolic extraction of antioxidant compounds (optimized through surface response methodology), the alkaline delignification of the exhausted solid to obtain a lignin-enriched fraction, and the enzymatic digestibility of the remaining cellulose fraction to produce fermentable sugars. In addition, the structural characterization of the extract by FT-IR and TGA was performed, and the analysis by UPLC-DAD-ESI-MS allowed the tentative identification of eleven antioxidant phenolic compounds. The application of this multiproduct valorization approach led to the production of 13 kg antioxidant extracted compounds, 33.2 kg lignin and 14.5 kg glucose per each 100 kg of horse chestnut burs, which demonstrates the great potential of this residue as a biorefinery substrate.
Volume
730
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería química Agricultura Biotecnología industrial
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85084415021
PubMed ID
Source
Science of the Total Environment
ISSN of the container
00489697
Sponsor(s)
This work was funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (RTI2018-094482-J-I00). G.E. A.M.-M. and T.A.L-C. belong to the Galician Competitive Research Group GRC-ED431C 2017/29 and the CRETUS Strategic Partnership (ED431E 2018/01). These programs are co-funded by FEDER (EU). Beatriz Gull?n and Gemma Eibes would like to express their gratitude to the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities for financial support (Grant reference RYC2018-026177-I and RYC2018-024846-I). Abel Mu?iz-Mouro thanks the Programa de axudas ? etapa predoutoral da Xunta de Galicia.
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