Journal
ACS SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY & ENGINEERING
Volume 8, Issue 15, Pages 5847-5855Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.9b07226
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Deacetylation; Delignification; Enzyme-mediated hydrolysis; Increased enzyme accessibility
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- Natural Science and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST)
- U.S. Department of Energy [DEAC05-00OR22725]
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Alkaline induced deacetylation of the hemicellulose combined with subsequent mechanical refining enhanced the enzyme-mediated hydrolysis of pretreated corn stover. The addition of either NaOH (80 degrees C) or mild KOH (25 degrees C) to corn stover prior to mechanical refining led to greater than 80% deacetylation with the NaOH treatment also solubilizing low-molecular-weight lignin that was enriched in beta-O-4 linkages with more than 25% and 13% of the total and surface lignin removed, respectively. The influence of deacetylation and delignification were further enhanced when NaOH was supplemented with 3% Na2SO3, resulting in 100% deacetylation, 34% delignification, and a >20% increase in the hydrolysis yield of the substrate xylan. A milder KOH treatment resulted in the retention of more than 95% of the lignin within the cellulose rich, water-insoluble fraction with no apparent change in the surface lignin. However, both methods resulted in enhanced xylan hydrolysis when treated with xylanases, suggesting that deacetylation had enhanced accessibility to the xylan present in the pretreated of corn stover. It was apparent that cellulose accessibility was also enhanced by partial delignification, as NaOH treatment resulted in a 65% and 43% increase in the Water Retention Value and Directed Orange dye adsorption, respectively.
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