Journal
CELLULOSE
Volume 21, Issue 1, Pages 221-235Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10570-013-0149-3
Keywords
Water retention value; Enzymatic hydrolysis; Pretreatment; Cell wall swelling
Funding
- DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (DOE BER Office of Science) [DE-FC02-07ER64494]
- NSF [0757020]
- Directorate For Engineering
- Div Of Chem, Bioeng, Env, & Transp Sys [1336622] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Undergraduate Education
- Direct For Education and Human Resources [0757020] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The relationships between biomass composition, water retention value (WRV), settling volume and enzymatic glucose yield and enzyme binding is investigated in this work by employing grasses pretreated with combinations of alkaline hydrogen peroxide (AHP) delignification and liquid hot water pretreatment that result in significant alterations of cell wall properties and subsequent enzymatic hydrolysis yields. Specifically, these cell wall treatments are performed on corn stover and switchgrass to generate material with a range of lignin (6-35 %) and xylan (2-28 %) contents as well as a range of other properties such as carboxylic acid content, water binding affinity and swellability. It was determined that WRV and settling volume are predictors of glucose yield (R-2 = 0.900 and 0.895 respectively) over the range of materials and treatment conditions used. It was also observed that mild AHP delignification can result in threefold increases in the WRV. Dynamic vapor sorption isotherms demonstrated that AHP-delignified corn stover exhibited an increased affinity for water sorption from the vapor phase relative to untreated corn stover. These results indicate that these water properties may be useful proxies for biomass susceptibility to enzymatic deconstruction.
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