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Hydrothermal Pretreatment of Lignocellulosic Biomass for Bioethanol Production

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Hydrothermal Processing in Biorefineries

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The work of Overend and Chornet on pretreatment severity factors combined with major contributions by others in the field has consistently shown that pretreatment is both an important cost driver of lignocellulose conversion to ethanol and a critical step that enables enzyme hydrolysis. Different lignocellulose pretreatments have a common objective of enhancing hydrolysis by opening up the plant cell wall enabling hydrolytic enzymes to access cellulose and hemicellulose. The work reported in this chapter addresses liquid hot water pretreatment and mechanisms by which it enhances the rates and extents of enzyme hydrolysis of cellulose from different types of lignocellulosic materials. Maintaining pH between about 4 and 7 is an important process variable of liquid hot water pretreatment, since pH can directly influence the formation of aldehydes and other inhibitors from hemicellulose and affect lignin solubilization which in turn also releases molecules that inhibit or deactivate the enzymes. Pretreatment conditions and severities may also change both chemical structure and physical properties of the residual lignin itself, which in turn negatively affects the action of enzymes. This chapter will focus on a detailed review of our work on liquid hot water pretreatment of lignocellulosic materials and its implications for potential use in biorefineries for production of bioethanol and bioproducts with high added value. Correlation of severities to enzyme conversion of different biomass materials and an overview of the potential application of hydrothermally pretreated biomass as a renewable feedstock for enzyme production will also be presented and discussed.

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The material in this work was supported by Hatch Act 10677 and 10646, Purdue University Agricultural Research Programs, and the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering. We are grateful to Antonio Carlos Freitas dos Santos and Leyu Zhang for internal review of this manuscript.

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    Eduardo Ximenes & Michael R. Ladisch

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Ximenes, E., Farinas, C.S., Kim, Y., Ladisch, M.R. (2017). Hydrothermal Pretreatment of Lignocellulosic Biomass for Bioethanol Production. In: Ruiz, H., Hedegaard Thomsen, M., Trajano, H. (eds) Hydrothermal Processing in Biorefineries. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56457-9_7

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