Recent Trends in the Pretreatment of Lignocellulosic Biomass for Value-Added Products
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Lignocellulosic biomass (LCB) is the most abundantly available bioresource amounting to about a global yield of up to 1.3 billion tons per year. The hydrolysis of LCB results in the release of various reducing sugars which are highly valued in the production of biofuels such as bioethanol and biogas, various organic acids, phenols, and aldehydes. The majority of LCB is composed of biological polymers such as cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, which are strongly associated with each other by covalent and hydrogen bonds thus forming a highly recalcitrant structure. The presence of lignin renders the bio-polymeric structure highly resistant to solubilization thereby inhibiting the hydrolysis of cellulose and hemicellulose which presents a significant challenge for the isolation of the respective bio-polymeric components. This has led to extensive research in the development of various pretreatment techniques utilizing various physical, chemical, physicochemical and biological approaches which are specifically tailored towards the source biomaterial and its application. The objective of this review is to discuss the various pretreatment strategies currently in use and provide an overview of their utilization for the isolation of high-value bio-polymeric components. The article further discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the various pretreatment methodologies as well as addresses the role of various key factors that are likely to have a significant impact on the pretreatment and digestibility of LCB.
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Effective conversion often requires feedstock preprocessing steps, such as mechanical shredding or milling, to improve handling efficiency.
“Effective conversion often requires feedstock preprocessing steps, such as mechanical shredding or milling, to improve handling efficiency [129-131].”
From Biofuels, E-Fuels, and Waste-Derived Fuels: Advances, Challenges, and Future Directions (2025) · cites this paper as [130]
The Physical Pretreatment section (page unavailable) says size reduction makes subsequent conversion processes more effective and easier, and the Milling section identifies milling as a way to reduce particle size. The copy does not establish that shredding or milling improves feedstock handling efficiency specifically. (LLM, conf=0.84)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredFor recalcitrant feedstocks like lignocellulosic biomass, additional pre-treatments are crucial to break down complex structures for biochemical conversion.
“For recalcitrant feedstocks like lignocellulosic biomass, additional pre-treatments are crucial to break down complex structures for biochemical conversion [129,130].”
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- Authors
- Baruah, J., Nath, B. K., Sharma, R., Kumar, S., Deka, R. C., Baruah, D. C., & Kalita, E.
- Affiliations
- Tezpur University (IN)
- Sardar Swaran Singh National Institute of Bio-Energy (IN)
- Corresponding author
- Kalita, Eeshan
- Venue
- Frontiers in Energy Research
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media SA
- Published
- 2018-12-18
- Volume
- 6
- ISSN
- 2296-598X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2903709198
- Cited by
- 1,132
- References
- 211
- Citations by year
- 2026: 100 · 2025: 147 · 2024: 170 · 2023: 183 · 2022: 262 · 2021: 167 · 2020: 87 · 2019: 16
- FWCI
- 26.96
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- Frontiers in Energy Research (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India (BT/PR16008/NER/95/47/2015)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Biofuel production and bioconversion
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Catalysis for Biomass Conversion
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Lignin and Wood Chemistry
- Keywords
- lignocellulosic biomass, biomass pretreatment, lignin removal, cellulose hydrolysis, hemicellulose, reducing sugars, biofuels, bioethanol, biogas, value-added products, lignocellulose recalcitrance
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
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