Title |
Chemical and morphological characterization of sugarcane bagasse submitted to a delignification process for enhanced enzymatic digestibility
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Published in |
Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts, November 2011
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DOI | 10.1186/1754-6834-4-54 |
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Authors |
Camila Alves Rezende, Marisa Aparecida de Lima, Priscila Maziero, Eduardo Ribeiro deAzevedo, Wanius Garcia, Igor Polikarpov |
Abstract |
In recent years, biorefining of lignocellulosic biomass to produce multi-products such as ethanol and other biomaterials has become a dynamic research area. Pretreatment technologies that fractionate sugarcane bagasse are essential for the successful use of this feedstock in ethanol production. In this paper, we investigate modifications in the morphology and chemical composition of sugarcane bagasse submitted to a two-step treatment, using diluted acid followed by a delignification process with increasing sodium hydroxide concentrations. Detailed chemical and morphological characterization of the samples after each pretreatment condition, studied by high performance liquid chromatography, solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance, diffuse reflectance Fourier transformed infrared spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy, is reported, together with sample crystallinity and enzymatic digestibility. |
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