Biodegradation pretreatment of wood of E. grandis, E. dunnii, and E. benthamii to work in biorefinery processes

Lopretti, Mary Isabel - Baldyga, Natalia Irene - González, María - Olazábal, Laura Beatriz - Torres, Marina Graciela - Resquin, Fernando - Carrasco, Leónidas

Resumen:

Nowadays, there is a great interest in using lignocellulosic materials as substrate for the production of biorefi nery products. Eucalypti are good options to use as crops to obtain different kinds of biofuels and derivatives, since their plantations show high adaptation potential to soil and weather conditions in Uruguay. The basic process steps involved in the obtainment of biorefi nery materials are: pretreatment, hydrolysis, fermentation and products separation. As delignifi cation is an important process to obtain biorefi nery products, in this context the evaluation of the biological (BT) and hydrothermal (TT) pretreatment of different species of Eucaliptus was studied. The possibility of obtaining sugars, alcohols and organic acids was the main focus. The results of these investigations show a good production of reducing sugars (4-5 mg/mL for both BT and TT pretreatments), acetic acid (3-8 mg/mL for BT and 3-7 mg/mL for TT) and isopropanol (18-48 mg/mL for BT and 20-30 mg/mL for TT). In conclusion, the results show similar behaviours for BT and TT pretreatments, which is a quite important result since BT is cheaper and cleaner and thus a more attractive technology.


Detalles Bibliográficos
2016
Biorefinery
Delignification
Pretreatment
Inglés
Universidad de la República
COLIBRI
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12008/22565
Acceso abierto
Licencia Creative Commons Atribución (CC - By 4.0)
Resumen:
Sumario:Nowadays, there is a great interest in using lignocellulosic materials as substrate for the production of biorefi nery products. Eucalypti are good options to use as crops to obtain different kinds of biofuels and derivatives, since their plantations show high adaptation potential to soil and weather conditions in Uruguay. The basic process steps involved in the obtainment of biorefi nery materials are: pretreatment, hydrolysis, fermentation and products separation. As delignifi cation is an important process to obtain biorefi nery products, in this context the evaluation of the biological (BT) and hydrothermal (TT) pretreatment of different species of Eucaliptus was studied. The possibility of obtaining sugars, alcohols and organic acids was the main focus. The results of these investigations show a good production of reducing sugars (4-5 mg/mL for both BT and TT pretreatments), acetic acid (3-8 mg/mL for BT and 3-7 mg/mL for TT) and isopropanol (18-48 mg/mL for BT and 20-30 mg/mL for TT). In conclusion, the results show similar behaviours for BT and TT pretreatments, which is a quite important result since BT is cheaper and cleaner and thus a more attractive technology.