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Fermented Cassava Residue Lignin Prepared by Sequential Acid Steam-Explosion and Hot-Alkaline Treatment and Its Antioxidant Properties

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Fermented cassava residue (FCR) is a solid waste generated in cassava-based ethanol production that constitutes a major environmental challenge and wastes a natural resource. In the present study, a process involving sequential acid steam-explosion and hot-alkaline treatment was developed to prepare an antioxidant lignin in high yield and purity from FCR. Two-dimensional NMR analysis indicates that FCR lignin belongs to a guaiacyl/syringyl/hydroxyphenyl (G/S/H) class of lignin. 31P NMR analysis, after hydroxyl group phosphorylation, indicates that phenolic hydroxyl in FCR lignin attributable to mostly G-OH. One FCR lignin (No. 3) possessed the antioxidant activity similar to that of butylated hydroxytoluene. This FCR lignin may have potential applications as a food antioxidant or in other industrial processes as an antioxidant.

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The present study provided an efficient process of sequent acid steam-explosion and hot-alkaline treatment to improve the added value of fermented cassava residue (FCR).

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This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2016YFD0400601), State Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Engineering (201760), Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC 21576153).

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  1. College of Life Science and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China

    Wenya Wang, Shizhuo Wang, Yuqing Pan & Xianhong Ouyang

  2. State Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, China

    Wenya Wang

  3. Amoy-BUCT Industrial Bio-Technovation Institute, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Amoy, 361022, China

    Wenya Wang

  4. Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY, 12180, USA

    Robert J. Linhardt

  5. Chemical and Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY, 12180, USA

    Robert J. Linhardt

  6. Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY, 12180, USA

    Robert J. Linhardt

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Wang, W., Wang, S., Pan, Y. et al. Fermented Cassava Residue Lignin Prepared by Sequential Acid Steam-Explosion and Hot-Alkaline Treatment and Its Antioxidant Properties. Waste Biomass Valor 11, 6115–6124 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12649-019-00862-z

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