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Pretreatments for Enhanced Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Pinewood: a Review

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Pinewood is an abundant source of lignocellulosic biomass that has potential to be used as renewable feedstock in biorefineries for conversion into advanced biofuels and other value-added chemicals. However, its structural recalcitrance, due to the compact packing of its major components, viz. cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, high lignin content, and high cellulose crystallinity, is a major bottleneck in its widespread use as a biorefinery feedstock. Typical chemical, thermal, and biological pretreatment technologies are aimed at removing lignin and hemicellulose fractions for improving enzyme accessibility and digestibility of cellulose. This review highlights common pine pretreatment procedures, associated key parameters and resulting enzymatic hydrolysis yields. The challenges and limitations are also discussed as well as potential strategies to overcome them, providing an essential source of information to realize pine as a compelling biorefinery biomass source.

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This work was supported in part by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, capacity grant (S15-723-15-1), the National Science Foundation (OIIA 1457888), and Division of Agriculture, the University of Arkansas System.

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    Gurshagan Kandhola, Angele Djioleu & Jin-Woo Kim

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    Gurshagan Kandhola, Angele Djioleu & Jin-Woo Kim

  3. Department of Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA

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Kandhola, G., Djioleu, A., Carrier, D.J. et al. Pretreatments for Enhanced Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Pinewood: a Review. Bioenerg. Res. 10, 1138–1154 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12155-017-9862-3

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