A tailored deep eutectic solvent for high-yield conversion of poplar residues to bio-based building blocks at mild conditions

Zhou, Xuelian; Liu, Xuze; Zhan, Yunni; Bian, Huiyang; Wu, Shufang; Dai, Hongqi; Liang, Fangmin; Meng, Xianzhi; Huang, Chen; Fang, Guigan; Ragauskas, Arthur J.

doi:10.1016/j.cej.2024.150407

Title: A tailored deep eutectic solvent for high-yield conversion of poplar residues to bio-based building blocks at mild conditions

Journal Article · 15 March 2024 · Chemical Engineering Journal

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2024.150407 · OSTI ID:2376308

Zhou, Xuelian ^[1]; Liu, Xuze ^[2]; Zhan, Yunni ^[2]; Bian, Huiyang ^[3]; Wu, Shufang ^[3]; Dai, Hongqi ^[3]; Liang, Fangmin ^[2]; Meng, Xianzhi ^[4];

^[1]; Fang, Guigan ^[1];

^[4]

Chinese Academy of Forestry (China); Nanjing Forestry Univ. (China)
Chinese Academy of Forestry (China)
Nanjing Forestry Univ. (China)
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

The generation of condensed compounds in a deep eutectic solvent (DES) pretreatment has become a paramount factor that inhibits the further conversion of pretreated cellulose-rich substrate. Here, this study proposed a novel three-constituent DES system for the value-added utilization of poplar residues by efficiently suppressing hemicellulose derived condensation reactions. The results showed that adding ethanol into the DES system could effectively deconstruct the recalcitrant structure of poplar residues, simultaneously hindering the condensed composition formation. Under optimum ethanol addition (30%), the maximum xylan and lignin removal of 87.94% and 90.99% could be achieved, with more than 90.47% of glucan being preserved. With this, the glucan enzymatic hydrolysis efficiency was remarkably improved to 100% under the pretreatment conditions of 100 °C for 60 min, which was 84.69 times higher than the regular DES-pretreated poplar residues (1.17%). The working mechanism of relieving condensation reactions was characterized by Py-GC–MS, NMR, SEM, FTIR, and others. The results demonstrated that the addition of ethanol could regulate the degradation/conversion pathway of hemicellulose and lignin precipitation, thus inhibit the formation of condensed compounds during the pretreatment.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 2376308

Journal Information:: Chemical Engineering Journal, Journal Name: Chemical Engineering Journal Vol. 487; ISSN 1385-8947

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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