Can Multiple Ions in an Ionic Liquid Improve the Biomass Pretreatment Efficacy?

Yao, Alexander; Choudhary, Hemant; Mohan, Mood; Rodriguez, Alberto; Magurudeniya, Harsha; Pelton, Jeffrey G.; George, Anthe; Simmons, Blake A.; Gladden, John M.

doi:10.1021/acssuschemeng.0c09330

Title: Can Multiple Ions in an Ionic Liquid Improve the Biomass Pretreatment Efficacy?

Journal Article · Thu Mar 18 00:00:00 EDT 2021 · ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.0c09330· OSTI ID:1848065

Yao, Alexander ^[1];

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Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA (United States)
Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA (United States); ; Sandia National Lab. (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States)
Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA (United States); Sandia National Lab. (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

we report over the last few decades, efforts to transition the global production of fuels and chemicals toward renewable carbon feedstocks have accelerated. A large portion of these efforts have focused on valorization of one of the most abundant renewable carbon sources, lignocellulose. Pretreatment of lignocellulose is the first critical step in this process. In this study, novel ionic liquid (IL) systems consisting of multiple ions known to be effective at biomass pretreatment were tested on woody and grassy biomass. Molecular simulations and experimental results established the synergistic advantages of combining specific individual components in these systems. For pine (woody) biomass, pretreatment with the combination of imidazolium, cholinium, acetate, and lysinate ions achieved 80% glucose and 70% xylose yields at high biomass loading. For sorghum biomass, an IL system comprising cholinium, lysinate, and palmitate ions not only enabled a 98% glucose yield but was also found to be biocompatible in a one-pot configuration, producing the biofuel precursor bisabolene using an engineered strain of the yeast Rhodosporidium toruloides.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Sandia National Lab. (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1848065

Journal Information:: ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, Vol. 9, Issue 12; ISSN 2168-0485

Publisher:: American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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