Optimization of hot-compressed water pretreatment of bagasse and characterization of extracted hemicelluloses

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• 作者：Badamkh ; Sukhbaatar ; El Barbary Hassan ; Moon Kim ; Philip Steele ; Leonard Ingram
• 关键词：Hemicelluloses ; Hot-compressed water extraction ; Membrane filtration ; Biopolymers
• 刊名：Carbohydrate Polymers
• 出版年：30 January, 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：101
• 期：Complete
• 页码：196-202
• 全文大小：699 K

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Developing optimum treatment and separation procedures for hemicellulose components of lignocellulosic biomass could be useful in ethanol fermentation processes and obtaining pure hemicelluloses as biopolymers. Sugarcane bagasse analyses indicate that xylose is the major hemicellulose component constituting 17.7% of dry bagasse weight. In this study the effects of treatment conditions such as time, temperature and pressure on the yields of extracted hemicelluloses were studied. The optimum conditions were achieved at 180 掳C for 30 min and 1 MPa pressure, with the yield of xylose reaching to 85% and the concentrations of sugar degradation products such as HMF and furfural remaining minimal at 0.95 and 0.07 g/L, respectively. Further, isolation of hemicelluloses from extracted hemicelluloses solutions was performed using Alfa Laval M20 membrane filtration system in two steps: (1) concentration of high molar mass hemicelluloses by ultrafiltration; and (2) separation of low molar mass hemicelluloses and oligomeric sugars by nanofiltration. The isolated hemicelluloses with the optimum pretreatment conditions were characterized by FT-IR and ¹³C NMR techniques, resulting in agreement with typical spectra of xylan-type hemicelluloses.