RT Journal Article T1 Formosolv pretreatment to fractionate Paulownia wood following a biorefinery approach: isolation and characterization of the lignin fraction A1 Dominguez Corral, Elena A1 Garcia Del Rio, Pablo A1 Romaní Pérez, Aloia A1 Garrote Velasco, Gil A1 Gullón Estévez, Patricia A1 de Vega, Alberto K1 3106 Ciencia Forestal K1 5312.01 Agricultura, Silvicultura, Pesca K1 3312.13 Tecnología de la Madera AB Paulownia is a rapid-growth tree with a high biomass production rate per year and low demand of water, which make it very suitable for intercropping systems, as it protects the crops from adverse climatic conditions, benefiting the harvest yields. Moreover, these characteristics make Paulownia a suitable raw material able to be fractionated in an integrated biorefinery scheme to obtain multiple products using a cascade conversion approach. Different delignification pretreatments of biomass have been purposed as a first stage of a lignocellulosic biorefinery. In this study, the formosolv delignification of Paulownia wood was investigated using a second order face-centered factorial design to assess the effects of the independent variables (concentrations of formic and hydrochloric acids and reaction time) on the fractionation of Paulownia wood. The maximum delignification achieved in this study (78.5%) was obtained under following conditions: 60 min, and 95% and 0.05% formic and hydrochloric acid, respectively. In addition, the remained solid phases were analyzed to determine their cellulose content and cooking liquors were also chemically analyzed and characterized. Finally, the recovered lignin by precipitation from formosolv liquor and the pristine lignin (milled wood lignin) in Paulownia wood were characterized and compared by the following techniques FTIR, NMR, high-performance size-exclusion chromatography (HPSEC) and TGA. This complete characterization allowed verifying the capacity of the formosolv process to act on the lignin, causing changes in its structure, which included both phenomena of depolymerization and condensation. PB Agronomy SN 20734395 YR 2020 FD 2020-08-17 LK http://hdl.handle.net/11093/1609 UL http://hdl.handle.net/11093/1609 LA eng NO Agronomy, 10(8): 1205 (2020) NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España) | Ref. CTQ2012-30855 DS Investigo RD 08-feb-2025