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BIOMASS CONVERSION AND BIOREFINERY
Volume 12, Issue 2, Pages 547-564Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s13399-020-00722-0
Keywords
Agroindustrial wastes; Biomass; Cellulose; Lignin; Hemicellulose
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This review article examines pretreatment methods for reducing the negative impact of agricultural and industrial wastes on the environment and human and animal health. The article discusses the extraction and purification of cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin from the waste to produce valuable products. However, further research is needed to improve the efficiency of current methods and discover new procedures.
A number of industries currently produce many tons of agroindustrial wastes with significant consequences on the environment and human and animal health. In recent years, increasing emphasis has been placed on reducing this negative impact. This review article aims to investigate the use of pretreatment methods that can be applied as an alternative to the usage of residual biomass. In addition, we seek to highlight the efficiency of the processes as well as possible weaknesses, which are associated with high energy and reagent consumption, low yields, and possible secondary impacts. Generally, the waste chemical composition consists mainly of cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin; these can be fractionated, extracted, and purified to produce different value-added products, such as biofuels, organic acids, enzymes, biopolymers, and chemical additives. Despite the multiple possibilities to produce different products from lignocellulosic biomass, further research is still required to enhance the efficiency of the methods used nowadays and find new procedures.
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