Journal
GREEN CHEMISTRY
Volume 22, Issue 15, Pages 5032-5041Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d0gc01241f
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- Grantham Institute for Climate Change
- Climate-KIC
- EPSRC [EP/S000771/1, EP/K038648/1]
- EPSRC [EP/K038648/1, EP/S000771/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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In the present study, we used a low-cost protic ionic liquid, 1-methylimidazolium chloride, to simultaneously fractionate heavy metal contaminated wood and extract the metals from the wood at elevated temperature and short reaction time. This treatment selectively dissolves the lignin and hemicellulose in the biomass, leaving a solid cellulose-rich pulp, while coordinating and extracting 80-100% of the metal species present in the wood in a one-pot process. The lignin stream was recovered from the liquor and the cellulose was hydrolysed and then fermented into ethanol. The ionic liquid was recycled 6 times and the metals were recovered from the liquorviaelectrodeposition. This is the first time that highly contaminated waste wood has been integrated into a process which does not produce a contaminated waste stream, but instead valorises the wood as a feedstock for renewable chemicals, materials and fuels, while efficiently recovering the metals, converting a toxic environmental hazard into a rich source of biorenewables. We have therefore used an otherwise problematic waste as a low-cost lignocellulsoic feedstock for a circular bioeconomy concept.
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