Effective Biomass Fractionation through Oxygen-Enhanced Alkaline–Oxidative Pretreatment

Yuan, Zhaoyang; Klinger, Grace E.; Nikafshar, Saeid; Cui, Yanbin; Fang, Zhen; Alherech, Manar; Goes, Shannon; Anson, Colin; Singh, Sandip K.; Bals, Bryan; Hodge, David B.; Nejad, Mojgan; Stahl, Shannon S.; Hegg, Eric L.

doi:10.1021/acssuschemeng.0c06170

Effective Biomass Fractionation through Oxygen-Enhanced Alkaline–Oxidative Pretreatment

Journal Article · Mon Jan 11 00:00:00 EST 2021 · ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.0c06170· OSTI ID:1878349

^[1]; Klinger, Grace E. ^[2]; Nikafshar, Saeid ^[2]; Cui, Yanbin ^[3]; ^[2]; Alherech, Manar ^[3]; ^[3]; Anson, Colin ^[3]; ^[4]; ^[5]; ^[6]; ^[2]; ^[3]; ^[2]

Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States); Michigan State University
Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)
Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
Montana State Univ., Bozeman, MT (United States)
Michigan Biotechnology Inst., Lansing, MI (United States)
Montana State Univ., Bozeman, MT (United States); LuleÅ Univ. of Technology (Sweden)

The high recalcitrance of plant cell walls is an obstacle for effective chemical or biological conversion into renewable chemicals and transportation fuels. Here, we investigated the utilization of both oxygen (O₂) and hydrogen peroxide (H₂O₂) as co-oxidants during alkaline-oxidative pretreatment to improve biomass fractionation and increase enzymatic digestibility. The oxidative pretreatment of hybrid poplar was studied over a variety of conditions. Employing O₂ in addition to H₂O₂ as a co-oxidant during the two-stage alkaline pre-extraction/copper-catalyzed alkaline hydrogen peroxide (Cu-AHP) pretreatment process resulted in a substantial improvement in delignification relative to using H₂O₂ alone during the second-stage Cu-AHP pretreatment, leading to high overall sugar yields even at H₂O₂ loadings as low as 2% (w/w of original biomass). The presence of H₂O₂, however, was both critical and synergistic. Performing analogous reactions in the absence of H₂O₂ resulted in approximately 25% less delignification and a 30% decrease in sugar yields. Here, the lignin isolated from this dual oxidant second stage had high aliphatic hydroxyl group content and reactivity to isocyanate, indicating that it is a promising substrate for the production of polyurethanes. To test the suitability of the isolated lignin as a source of aromatic monomers, the lignin was subjected to a sequential Bobbitt’s salt oxidation followed by formic-acid catalyzed depolymerization process. Monomer yields of approximately 17% (w/w) were obtained, and the difference in yields was not significant between lignin isolated from our Cu-AHP process with and without O₂ as a co-oxidant. Thus, the addition of O₂ did not lead to significant lignin crosslinking, a result consistent with the two-dimensional heteronuclear single-quantum coherence (2D HSQC) NMR spectra of the isolated lignin.

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Research Organization:: Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)

Grant/Contract Number:: EE0008148

OSTI ID:: 1878349

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1848687

Journal Information:: ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, Journal Name: ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 9; ISSN 2168-0485

Publisher:: American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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