“…Several materials have been investigated and tested with different kinds of physical, chemical, physicochemical and biological pretreatments (Brienzo, 2009;Pingali, 2010;Salvi, 2010;Thomas Ingram, 2011;Silva, 2011;Lam, et al, 2015). Chemical pretreatment has resulted in an effective and economic process to break down or remove interactions between lignin, hemicellulose and cellulose (Lynd, 1996;Mosier, 2005;Eggeman, 2005).…”