RT Journal Article
T1 Development of pretreatment strategies for the fractionation of hazelnut shells in the scope of biorefinery
A1 López, Laura
A1 Rivas Siota, Sandra
A1 Moure Varela, Andrés
A1 Vila, Carlos
A1 Parajo Liñares, Juan Carlos
K1 3303.03 Procesos Químicos
K1 3310.05 Ingeniería de Procesos
K1 3309.12 Aditivos Alimentarios
AB Hazelnut shells are an important waste from the hazelnut processing industry that could be valorized in a multi-product biorefinery. Individual or combined pretreatments may be integrated in processes enabling the integral fractionation of biomass. In this study, fractionation methods based on alkaline, alkaline-organosolv, organosolv, or acid-catalyzed organosolv treatments were applied to raw or autohydrolyzed hazelnut shells. A comparative analysis of results confirmed that the highest lignin removal was achieved with the acid-catalyzed organosolv delignification, which also allowed limited cellulose losses. When this treatment was applied to raw hazelnut shells, 65.3% of the lignin was removed, valuable hemicellulose-derived products were obtained, and the cellulose content of the processed solids increased up to 54%. Autohydrolysis of hazelnut shells resulted in the partial solubilization of hemicelluloses (mainly in the form of soluble oligosaccharides). Consecutive stages of autohydrolysis and acid-catalyzed organosolv delignification resulted in 47.9% lignin removal, yielding solids of increased cellulose content (55.4%) and very low content of residual hemicelluloses. The suitability of selected delignified and autohydrolyzed-delignified hazelnut shells as substrates for enzymatic hydrolysis was assessed in additional experiments. The most susceptible substrates (from acid-catalyzed organosolv treatments) reached 74.2% cellulose conversion into glucose, with a concentration of 28.52 g glucose/L.
PB Agronomy
SN 20734395
YR 2020
FD 2020-10-14
LK http://hdl.handle.net/11093/1810
UL http://hdl.handle.net/11093/1810
LA eng
NO Agronomy, 10(10): 1568 (2020)
DS Investigo
RD 06-dic-2024