Volume 202, 2017

Effect of pretreatment severity on the cellulose and lignin isolated from Salix using ionoSolv pretreatment

Abstract

The ionoSolv pretreatment is a new technique employing protic low-cost ionic liquids and has previously been applied to successfully fractionate switchgrass and the grass Miscanthus giganteus. This study investigates the effect of using the protic ionic liquid solution [N2220][HSO4]80% with two different acid/base ratios (1.02 and 0.98) at 120, 150 and 170 °C on the pretreatment outcome of the hardwood willow. The ionic liquid solution was able to fractionate willow, and a pulp and lignin fraction were recovered after treatment. The pretreatment success was determined via enzymatic hydrolysis of the pulp, which showed that the ionoSolv pretreatment was able to increase enzymatic glucose yields compared to untreated willow biomass. The pretreatment produced a cellulose-rich pulp with high hemicellulose and lignin removal. The pulp composition and glucose yield after saccharification were greatly influenced by the acidity of the ionic liquid solution, temperature and pretreatment time. The extracted lignin was analysed via 2-D HSQC NMR spectroscopy and GPC to investigate the changes in the lignin structure induced by the pretreatment severity. The lignin structure (in terms of inter-unit linkages and S/G ratio) and molecular weight varied significantly depending on the pretreatment conditions used.

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Article type
Paper
Submitted
07 Feb 2017
Accepted
10 Mar 2017
First published
10 Mar 2017

Faraday Discuss., 2017,202, 331-349

Effect of pretreatment severity on the cellulose and lignin isolated from Salix using ionoSolv pretreatment

L. Weigand, S. Mostame, A. Brandt-Talbot, T. Welton and J. P. Hallett, Faraday Discuss., 2017, 202, 331 DOI: 10.1039/C7FD00059F

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