期刊
FUEL PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY
卷 174, 期 -, 页码 53-60出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuproc.2018.02.011
关键词
Corn stover; Mechanical ball milling; Physicochemical properties; Microwave-assisted heating; Ethyl levulinate
资金
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2016YFE0112800]
- European Union's Horizon - Research and Innovation Framework Programme [690142]
- Project AgroCycle (Sustainable Techno-Economic Solutions for the Agricultural Value Chain)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31671572]
In this study, ball milling was applied as a pretreatment to promote the production of ethyl levulinate (EL) from corn stover under microwave irradiation. The experiments showed mechanical grinding significantly increased the EL yields by 31.23 and 23.31% at 160 and 170 degrees C, respectively. To further understand the influence of ultrafine grinding on alcoholysis process, we have presented a series of physicochemical and morphological analysis for the ball milled corn stover. The characterization indicated that ball milling sharply reduced the particle size to cellular scale and the intact, smooth surface changed to an open, porous structure during ball milling. It also resulted in the disruption of crystalline cellulose to amorphous state and the depolymerization of polysaccharides with an increase in reducing-ends. In general, mechanical processing approach could efficiently modify the corn stover and facilitate the EL production in the following three ways: firstly, the reduction in particle size with increased surface increased the reaction accessibility of cellulose; secondly, the destruction of compact cellulose crystal structure conduced to the reduction of alcoholysis energy barrier; moreover, the de polymerized polysaccharides resulted in the increase of the reaction sites, which further improved the reaction activity and promote EL conversion. The mechanical processing approach could well hold the key to a better use of the mechanical forces in the alcohol reaction system, providing an environment-friendly method into lignocellulosic biorefinery schemes.
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