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Biomass recalcitrance is considered to be one of the impediments in bioconversion of lignocellulosic biomass (LCB) to sugars. Rice straw, a potential lignocellulosic waste, owing to the surplus availability, renewability and high carbohydrate content was used as a model LCB in the present study. The alkaline hydrogen peroxide-assisted wet air oxidation (APWAO) was evaluated as plausible pretreatment for rice straw based on the 23—factorial experimental design with a goal to reduce biomass recalcitrance by enhancing the cellulose recovery, hemicellulose solubilization, lignin removal and concomitantly generating limited degradation products. APWAO resulted in an overall cellulose recovery ranging from 80.54 to 93.02%, hemicellulose solubilization of 36.44–82.08% and lignin removal of 65.95–81.11% (all on w/w basis) respectively and absence of potent inhibitors viz. furfural and 5-hydroxymethylfurfural. The statistically significant pretreatment factors that affected each of these responses were assessed and optimum pretreatment conditions were determined to be biomass soaking in 0.5% H2O2 for 14 h succeeded by wet air oxidation (WAO) at 190 °C, 6 bar, 20 min by multi-objective numerical optimization. Further, the morphological and structural changes occurring as a result of pretreatment were scrutinized using SEM and FT-IR. APWAO further ensued in enhanced cellulose accessibility during enzymatic saccharification indicated by the glucose yield ranging from 113.97 to 200.34 g/kg untreated rice straw. Thus, the combined pretreatment (APWAO) i.e. pre-soaking in alkaline H2O2 followed by WAO was shown to enhance glucose yields owing to significant delignification.
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The authors are thankful to Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), New Delhi, India for the financial support provided to accomplish the present research work. The help extended by Mrs. Sera Das and Late Er. Abhinav Sharma, CSIR-NEERI is also duly acknowledged.
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Morone, A., Chakrabarti, T. & Pandey, R.A. Assessment of alkaline peroxide-assisted wet air oxidation pretreatment for rice straw and its effect on enzymatic hydrolysis. Cellulose 24, 4885–4898 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-017-1451-2
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