Continuous production of sugars from pyrolysis of acid-infused lignocellulosic biomass

Abstract

Although pyrolysis of carbohydrate-rich biomass should theoretically yield large amounts of sugar, the presence of alkali and alkaline earth metals (AAEMs) in most biomass prevents this from happening.

IOFI recommended practice for the use of predicted relative‐response factors for the rapid quantification of volatile flavouring compounds by GC‐FID

“…This technique, described in a number of publications, [2][3][4][5] with applications reported in the flavour, fragrance, and other domains, [6][7][8][9][10][11][12] can also be used to estimate the purity of chemically-defined flavouring substances or chromatographic standards using these predicted RRF.…”

The comparison of obtaining fermentable sugars from cellulose by enzymatic hydrolysis and fast pyrolysis

“…Fast pyrolysis produced a very low amount of levoglucosan from lignocellulose when compared to the theoretical yield based on cellulose fraction. Some effort had been made by passivation the AAEM in biomass to dramatically increase the yield of levoglucosan from lignocellulose, such as hot water washing and acid infusing (Dalluge et al, 2014;Jiang et al, 2015). Furthermore, there were contaminants in pyrolytic oil such as low-molecular-weight acids, furans and phenols that could inhibit successful fermentation.…”

Comprehensive utilization of glycerol from sugarcane bagasse pretreatment to fermentation

“…The ash of biomass has significant catalytic effects on the pyrolysis process. Some effort has been made for demineralization to achieve a high yield of levoglucosan from lignocellulose such as hot water washing and dilute acid pretreatment (Chang et al, 2013;Dalluge et al, 2014;Jiang et al, 2015a).…”