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- Comprehensive Wheat Straw Processing with Deep Eutectic Solvent to Deliver Reducing SugarPublication . Piedade, Patrícia J.; Venkat, Veshal; Al-Shwafy, Khaled W. A.; Aregawi, Mearg A.; Dudek, Gabriela; Zygadlo, Mateusz; Lukasik, Rafal M.ABSTRACT: Pretreatment is one of the bottlenecks in the cost and energy-efficient biomass valorization. Deep eutectic solvents are potential candidates for being used to address these challenges. In this work, the deep eutectic solvent composed of choline chloride, and acetic acid was studied for its use in wheat straw fractionation. The pretreated biomass was assessed concerning the lignin and glucan content. Under optimized time and temperature conditions, defined using Doehlert matrix chemometric tool, of 3 h 47 min and 139.6 degrees C, the processed wheat straw contained as much as 42.5 +/- 0.42 wt.% and 38.59 +/- 1.26 wt.% of glucan and lignin contents, respectively. The need for biomass washing after the pretreatment with deep eutectic solvents and before the enzymatic hydrolysis step was also evaluated. The obtained enzymatic hydrolysis results, i.e., glucan to glucose yield of 27.13 +/- 0.25 vs. 25.73 +/- 0.08 for washed or unwashed biomass correspondingly, are equally good substrates. Fractal kinetic analysis of the data showed similar values of k and h for both glucose and xylose reactions between washed and unwashed biomass. This confirmed that biomass washing is an unnecessary step, which in turn opens room for biomass processing intensification.
- Optimizing deep eutectic solvent pretreatment for enhanced glucan recovery from miscanthusPublication . Piedade, Patrícia J.; Nowotarski, Michal M.; Dudek, Gabriela; Lukasik, Rafal M.ABSTRACT: This work focuses on the use of the deep eutectic solvent composed of choline chloride and acetic acid (1 : 2) in the pretreatment of the perennial energy crop Miscanthus, commonly called silvergrass. The pretreatment time and temperature were optimized to achieve a maximum of the glucan and minimum of the lignin contents in the pretreated biomass. In the optimization approach, the maximal glucan recovery in the pretreated solid was also considered. The performed optimization resulted in conditions (2 h 52 min and 150 degrees C), at which a pretreated biomass contained 74.1 wt% and 9.5 wt% of glucan and lignin respectively, and a glucan recovery was as high as 87.0 wt%. Furthermore, the biocompatibility of deep eutectic solvent was evaluated by using enzymatic hydrolysis washed and unwashed pretreated biomass produced at optimal conditions. The enzymatic hydrolysis of washed biomass resulted in higher glucan and xylan conversion than those achieved from unwashed biomass, deeming the step of biomass washing necessary. This was confirmed by the fractal kinetics modelling that confirmed higher accessibility of glucan for washed biomass than for unwashed Miscanthus sample.