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Steam explosion and steam extrusion pretreatment as auxiliary methods for concentration enhancement of monosaccharides from hydrolysates based on the selected lignocellulosic materials

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An important parameter of production of biofuels based on lignocellulosic materials is the accessibility of cellulose in the structure of the pretreated substrate. Therefore, the suitable pretreatment methods should be used to process the lignocellulosic materials. Steam explosion and steam extrusion are promising pretreatment methods that are potentially useful in biofuel chemistry or green chemistry based on renewable resources. These physico-chemical methods modify lignocellulosic materials with recalcitrant nature. Thereby the accessibility of cellulose to enzymes and the subsequent enzymatic decomposition are improved. Pilot experiments of enzymatic hydrolysis of beech wood particles pretreated by steam explosion (STEX) or alkaline extrusion (ALEXT) were performed. The most significant differences in case of ALEXT were when comparing the concentration of monosaccharides in the hydrolysates of samples without pretreatment and samples pretreated by ALEXT at 200 °C. The highest concentration of total monosaccharides for extrusion was reached at the level of 57 g dm−3 (enzymatic hydrolysis for 24 h). The average concentration of glucose and xylose in this case reached the level of 36 g dm−3 or 18 g dm−3, in comparison to the original beech substrate—13 g dm−3 or 4 g dm−3, respectively. FT-IR spectra and microscopic images of some solid materials based on beech were obtained and compared for a better understanding of the changes in their structure.

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This work was supported by the Slovak Research and Development Agency under the Contract no. APVV-18-0240.

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  1. Pulp and Paper Research Institute, Dúbravská cesta 14, 841 04, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

    Andrej Pažitný, Michal Halaj, Albert Russ & Štefan Boháček

  2. Department of Wood, Pulp and Paper, Institute of Natural and Synthetic Polymers, Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Slovak University of Technology, Radlinského 9, 812 37, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

    Andrej Pažitný, Ida Skotnicová & Štefan Šutý

  3. Slovak Forest Products Research Institute, Dúbravská cesta 14, 841 04, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

    Vladimír Ihnát

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Pažitný, A., Halaj, M., Russ, A. et al. Steam explosion and steam extrusion pretreatment as auxiliary methods for concentration enhancement of monosaccharides from hydrolysates based on the selected lignocellulosic materials. Monatsh Chem 153, 1077–1085 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00706-022-02925-9

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