Professional paper

PRETREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES IN BIOETHANOL PRODUCTION FROM LIGNOCELLULOSIC BIOMASS

Vanja Janušić ; Faculty of Agriculture,University of Zagreb,Zagreb,Croatia
Duška Ćurić ; Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology,University of Zagreb,Zagreb,Croatia
Tajana Krička ; Faculty of Agriculture,University of Zagreb,Zagreb,Croatia
Neven Voća ; Faculty of Agriculture,University of Zagreb,Zagreb,Croatia
Ana Matin ; Faculty of Agriculture,University of Zagreb,Zagreb,Croatia

Abstract

Bioethanol is today most commonly produced from corn grain and sugar cane. It is expected that there will be limits to the supply of these raw materials in the near future. Therefore, lignocellulosic biomass, namely agricultural and forest waste, is seen as an attractive feedstock for future supplies of ethanol.
Lignocellulosic biomass consists of lignin, hemicellulose and cellulose. Indeed, complexicity of the lignocellulosic biomass structure causes a pretreatment to be applied prior to cellulose and hemicellulose hydrolysis into fermentable sugars. Pretreatment technologies can be physical (mechanical comminution, pyrolysis), physico-chemical (steam explosion, ammonia fiber explosion, CO2 explosion), chemical (ozonolysis, acid hydrolysis, alkaline hydrolysis, oxidative delignification, organosolvent process) and biological ones.

Keywords

lignocellulosic biomass; pretreatment; bioethanol

Hrčak ID:

25883

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/25883

Publication date:

17.7.2008.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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