From lignin to valuable products-strategies, challenges, and prospects.
By Hongliang Wang, Yunqiao Pu, A. Ragauskas, Bin Yang. Bioresource Technology, 2019
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The exploration of effective approaches for the valorization of lignin to valuable products attracts broad interests of a growing scientific community. By fully unlocking the potential of the world's most abundant resource of bio-aromatics, it could improve the profitability and carbon efficiency of the entire biorefinery process, thus accelerate the replacement of fossil resources with bioresources in our society. The successful realization of this goal depends on the development of technologies to overcome the following challenges, including: 1) efficient biomass pretreatment and lignin separation technologies that overcomes its diverse structure and complex chemistry challenges to obtain high purity lignin; 2) advanced chemical analysis for precise quantitative characterization of the lignin in chemical transformation processes; 3) novel approaches for conversion of biomass-derived lignin to valuable products. This review summarizes the latest cutting-edge innovations of lignin chemical valorization with the focus on the aforementioned three key aspects.
Subfields: Biomedical Engineering
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- Comparison of the Physicochemical Properties and Thermal Stability of Organosolv and Kraft Lignins from Hardwood and Softwood Biomass for Their Potential Valorization (2020, background): “To bring the economic benefits of such resource, the development and the implementation of biorefinery processes are required [3].”
- Lignocellulosic biorefineries: The current state of challenges and strategies for efficient commercialization (2021, background): “The lignin residue at the end of the process could be reutilized in the boilers to generate energy due to its high energy density [53].”