Yufa Gao , Wenlu Zhang , Mohammad Ali Asadollahi , Chao Liu , Guang Yu , Haiming Li , Bin Li
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Abstract
Clean and efficient pretreatment is a critical process for producing cellulosic sugar platform for the production of advanced biofuels and chemicals. Combining a chemical treatment with ball milling is a relatively simple and environmentally friendly procedure, which may reduce the pretreatment time and energy consumption. Hence, in this study, the mineral salts (e.g. ZnCl2, ZnBr2, LiCl, and LiBr) were used to enhance the ball milling. Firstly, microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) as a model compound of pure cellulose was pretreated by mineral salt-assisted ball milling to investigate the effect of mineral salt and ball milling for promoting cellulose saccharification. LiBr showed the best effect to improve the effectiveness of ball milling pretreatment, and the glucose yield of saccharification reached up to 93.8 % under the optimal conditions. Then, corncob residue (CCR) as a distinctive starting material was pretreated by LiBr-assisted ball milling, and the corresponding glucose yield of saccharification (48 h) with enzyme dosage of 5 FPU/g-CCR was as high as 97.4 %. Characterization verified that, the effect of LiBr and ball milling could more effectively break hydrogen bonds and crystalline structure of cellulose, thus highly promoting the followed enzymatic saccharification without lignin removal and washing after LiBr-assisted ball milling pretreatment. This work can help to understand the effect of combining mineral salt with ball milling, which is beneficial to the development of clean and effective pretreatment approach for lignocellulose biorefinery.
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Biomass & Bioenergy is an international journal publishing original research papers and short communications, review articles and case studies on biological resources, chemical and biological processes, and biomass products for new renewable sources of energy and materials.
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• Biomass: sources, energy crop production processes, genetic improvements, composition. Please note that research on these biomass subjects must be linked directly to bioenergy generation.
• Biological Residues: residues/rests from agricultural production, forestry and plantations (palm, sugar etc), processing industries, and municipal sources (MSW). Papers on the use of biomass residues through innovative processes/technological novelty and/or consideration of feedstock/system sustainability (or unsustainability) are welcomed. However waste treatment processes and pollution control or mitigation which are only tangentially related to bioenergy are not in the scope of the journal, as they are more suited to publications in the environmental arena. Papers that describe conventional waste streams (ie well described in existing literature) that do not empirically address ''new'' added value from the process are not suitable for submission to the journal.
• Bioenergy Processes: fermentations, thermochemical conversions, liquid and gaseous fuels, and petrochemical substitutes
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• Biomass and the Environment: carbon cycle, the net energy efficiency of bioenergy systems, assessment of sustainability, and biodiversity issues.