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Liquid Hot Water Pretreatment for Lignocellulosic Biomass Biorefinery

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Liquid hot water (LHW) technology has been thought as a green process which hardly pollutes the environment due to no addition of chemical reagents. It is usually employed as a pretreatment method for producing ethanol, butanol, lactic acid, biogas, and other biochemicals from lignocellulose. It is also used as a technology to directly obtain products from lignocellulose such as xylooligosaccharide, microcrystalline cellulose, hydrochar, and so on. This chapter describes the technological characteristics and development of LHW process, summarizes the way of LHW treatment to influence the physicochemical features of lignocellulose and the biorefinery efficiency, and depicts the application of LHW technology for bioproduct production. It concludes that LHW treatment is a versatile biorefinery technology and outlooks the promising way for the practical application of LHW technology.

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Zhuang, X., Wang, W., Song, B., Yu, Q. (2021). Liquid Hot Water Pretreatment for Lignocellulosic Biomass Biorefinery. In: Liu, ZH., Ragauskas, A. (eds) Emerging Technologies for Biorefineries, Biofuels, and Value-Added Commodities. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65584-6_4

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