“…The major obstacle in the development of mechanical methods for the preliminary treatment of lignocellulose is the difficulty of scaling laboratory developments and the transition to industrial equipment (Akhtar, Scott, Swaney, & Shipley, 2000;Masarin et al, 2009). At present, the majority of studies are carried out in the laboratory (Hilgert, Meine, Rinaldi, & Schüth, 2013;Lin et al, 2010) and are aimed at superfine grinding of the raw material (Millett, Effland, & Caulfield, 1979;Silva, Couturier, Berrin, Buléon, & Rouau, 2012), achieving the maximal possible reactivity of cellulose (Alekseeva, Rozhkova, & Prusov, 1997;Prusov, Zheleznov, Alekseeva, Padokhin, & Rozhkova, 2002), which is often disadvantageous from the viewpoint of energy consumption ( When pretreatment plant raw materials, mechanochemical treatment allows one to increase the reactivity of the substances incorporated in the treated materials due to an increase in the specific surface area (including the area suitable for interaction with reagents and enzymes), a decrease in cellulose crystallinity and a general disordering of the supramolecular structure of cell walls.…”