Journal
JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR LIQUIDS
Volume 271, Issue -, Pages 540-549Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2018.09.032
Keywords
NADESs; Physico-chemical properties; Biomass pretreatment; Hydrolysis; Cellulosic ethanol
Funding
- Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), under All India Co-ordinated Research Project (AICRP) -EAAI program, Govt. of India [VVN/CRP/2015/3]
- Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India [BT/PR12368/PDB/26/431/2014]
- Sardar Patel Renewable Energy Research Institute, Gujarat, India
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Comprehensive physico-chemical properties of different molar ratios of neat and aqueous (aq) natural deep eutectic solvent (NADES) mixtures containing choline chloride + lactic acid (CC-LA) were evaluated between the temperature ranges of 283.15 K and 363.15 K, respectively. Vogel-Fulcher-Tamman (VFT) model on dynamic viscosity and density studies clearly showed stronger interactions between water and NADESs. Pretreatment of rice straw (RS) with increasing LA content in the NADESs increased lignin extraction. Maximum lignin removal of 63.6% (w/w) was observed with CC-LA (1:9) mixture and decreased with increasing concentrations of water content in the NADESs. Further, >95% of the solublized lignin was recovered from neat NADESs pretreated liquid fraction, while comparatively lower lignin extraction efficiency was observed with the aqNADESs pretreated mixtures. Alongside, recovery of NADES insoluble fractions (NIF) and hemicelluloses were decreased with increasing LA content in the NADESs. The cellulose content (% w/w) was significantly increased from 40% to 65% after CC-LA-H2O (1:9:2.5) pretreatment. Enzymatic hydrolysis of the cellulose enriched NIF produced maximum reducing sugars of 66.4 g/L with CC-LA-H2O (1:9:2.5). Irrespective of the aqNADESs pretreatment, direct fermentation of the reducing sugars using Clavispora NRRL-Y 50464 produced maximum ethanol yields of 17.11 g/L within 180 min with a theoretical conversion efficiency of 94%, respectively. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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