Title
Lessons learned from the treatment of organosolv pulp with ligninolytic enzymes and chemical delignification agents
Date Issued
01 January 2018
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
research article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Springer Netherlands
Abstract
Although organosolv pretreatment allows extensive delignification of beech wood, the residual lignin present in the pulp may hinder the subsequent hydrolysis of the cellulose into fermentable sugars. With the purpose of increasing sugar production from cellulose hydrolysis, enzymatic and chemical oxidation stages were applied to the pulp previously to a stage of enzymatic hydrolysis with cellulases. Neither lignin content was reduced, nor sugar yield was improved after the versatile peroxidase treatment. On the other hand, laccase oxidation caused an increase in total lignin and kappa number and did not influence digestibility. Similarly, the chemical oxidation with H2O2 had also a negligible impact on the sugar yield. Only a significant removal of the lignin content in fibers was attained after ethanol wash, also confirmed by FT-IR analysis, which allowed increasing cellulose digestibility by 8.4%, and reducing the phenol content of the hydrolysate by 45.5%. Although the improvement of cellulose digestibility was lower than expected, this work provides valuable lessons for practical use on the opportunities of organosolv pulp.
Start page
763
End page
776
Volume
25
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
QuÃmica orgánica
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85033448302
Source
Cellulose
Resource of which it is part
Cellulose
ISSN of the container
09690239
Source funding
ConsellerÃa de Cultura, Educación e Ordenación Universitaria, Xunta de Galicia
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción CientÃfica
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