Pretreatment of woody biomass for biofuel production: energy efficiency, technologies, and recalcitrance
Abstract
This mini review discusses several key technical issues associated with cellulosic ethanol production from woody biomass: energy consumption for woody biomass pretreatment, pretreatment energy efficiency, woody biomass pretreatment technologies, and quantification of woody biomass recalcitrance. Both total sugar yield and pretreatment energy efficiency, defined as the total sugar recovery divided by total energy consumption for pretreatment, should be used to evaluate the performance of a pretreatment process. A post-chemical pretreatment wood size-reduction approach was proposed to significantly reduce energy consumption. The review also emphasizes using a low liquid-to-wood ratio (L/W) to reduce thermal energy consumption for any thermochemical/physical pretreatment in addition to reducing pretreatment temperature.
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The current industrially most developed lignocellulose treatment processes are in the area of paper production.
“The current industrially most developed lignocellulose treatment processes are therefore in the area of paper production.40”
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- Authors
- Zhu, J. Y., Pan, X., & Zalesny, R. S.
- Affiliations
- Forest Products Laboratory (US)
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
- US Forest Service (US)
- Corresponding author
- Zhu, J. Y.
- Venue
- Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
- Published
- 2010-05-15
- Volume
- 87
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 847-857
- ISSN
- 0175-7598 (ISSN-L)
- 1432-0614
- OpenAlex
- W2120041319
- Cited by
- 350
- References
- 85
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 15.86
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (publishedVersion, public-domain)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- U.S. Forest Service
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Biofuel production and bioconversion
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Catalysis for Biomass Conversion
- Keywords
- cellulosic ethanol, biofuel production, lignocellulose recalcitrance, total sugar yield, thermal pretreatment, pretreatment temperature
- MeSH terms
- Biotechnology, Cellulose, Energy-Generating Resources, Hydrolysis, Wood, Biomass, Biofuels
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