Recent updates on different methods of pretreatment of lignocellulosic feedstocks: a review

By Adepu K. Kumar, Shaishav Sharma. Bioresources and Bioprocessing, 2017

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Lignocellulosic feedstock materials are the most abundant renewable bioresource material available on earth. It is primarily composed of cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin, which are strongly associated with each other. Pretreatment processes are mainly involved in effective separation of these complex interlinked fractions and increase the accessibility of each individual component, thereby becoming an essential step in a broad range of applications particularly for biomass valorization. However, a major hurdle is the removal of sturdy and rugged lignin component which is highly resistant to solubilization and is also a major inhibitor for hydrolysis of cellulose and hemicellulose. Moreover, other factors such as lignin content, crystalline, and rigid nature of cellulose, production of post-pretreatment inhibitory products and size of feed stock particle limit the digestibility of lignocellulosic biomass. This has led to extensive research in the development of various pretreatment processes. The major pretreatment methods include physical, chemical, and biological approaches. The selection of pretreatment process depends exclusively on the application. As compared to the conventional single pretreatment process, integrated processes combining two or more pretreatment techniques is beneficial in reducing the number of process operational steps besides minimizing the production of undesirable inhibitors. However, an extensive research is still required for the development of new and more efficient pretreatment processes for lignocellulosic feedstocks yielding promising results.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology

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• Oleaginous Yeasts as Cell Factories for the Sustainable Production of Microbial Lipids by the Valorization of Agri-Food Wastes (2021, background): “Several articles have reviewed methods for biomass pretreatment [102,103], green technologies [104], and emerging technologies [105].”
• Ball milling as an important pretreatment technique in lignocellulose biorefineries: a review (2021, background): “However, combined pretreatment methods are found to be more efficient and promising approaches compared to single pretreatment methods in overcoming these drawbacks [15, 32].”
• Lignocellulosic Biomass: Understanding Recalcitrance and Predicting Hydrolysis (2019, background): “That is why some pre-treatment steps are mandatory to make cellulose more accessible by changing the physical and/or the chemical structure of LB and facilitating the conversion of polysaccharides into fermentable sugars (Zhao et al., 2012a; Kumar and Sharma, 2017).”
• Miscanthus: A fast‐growing crop for environmental remediation and biofuel production (2020, methodology): “Currently, the commonly used pretreatment methods include mechanical, mineral acid, alkali, liquid hot water (LHW), organosolvent, wet oxidation, ozonolysis, CO2 explosion, steam explosion, ammonia fiber explosion (AFEX), and ionic liquid (Chen et al., 2017; Kumar & Sharma, 2017).”
• Materials chemistry and the futurist eco-friendly applications of nanocellulose: Status and prospect (2018, neutral): “Endoglucanases (C and D types, which attack amorphous part) [124] Table 9 Significance and drawback of various processes.”