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Comparative study of different thermal pretreatment techniques for accelerated methane production from rice straw

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This study emphasizes the use of different thermal pretreatment methods (i.e., hot air oven, hot water bath, autoclave and microwave) on pretreatment of rice straw prior to anaerobic degradation. These pretreatment methods resulted in reasonably high solubilization of recalcitrant biomass. Maximum solublisation was attained by microwave (190 °C; exposure time-4 min) (66.6%) followed by autoclave, hot air oven and hot water bath methods. Accelerated cumulative methane yield of microwave pretreated sample achieved was 367.71 mL/g-VSadded, which was 160.68 mL/g-VSadded higher than the control. Combining this high temperature conditions with lesser exposure time also improved the energy balance of the process. The physicochemical characteristics of pretreated rice straw were investigated by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), Field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD), FESEM analysis showed the increased porosity of the rice straw, FTIR analysis showed the omission of hemicellulose from the matrix and with XRD analysis reduced value of crystallinity index supports the destruction of the crystalline matrix.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the Centre for Energy, Department of Physics and Department of Civil engineering, IIT Guwahati, Assam, India for research facilities and financial support of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), India.

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  1. Centre for the environment, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam, 781039, India

    Jyoti Kainthola, Ajay S. Kalamdhad & Vaibhav V. Goud

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam, 781039, India

    Mohd Shariq & Ajay S. Kalamdhad

  3. Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam, 781039, India

    Vaibhav V. Goud

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Kainthola, J., Shariq, M., Kalamdhad, A.S. et al. Comparative study of different thermal pretreatment techniques for accelerated methane production from rice straw. Biomass Conv. Bioref. 11, 1145–1154 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13399-019-00537-8

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