TY - JOUR
T1 - Steam Explosion Pretreatment of Oil Palm Empty Fruit Bunches (EFB) using autocatalytic hydrolysis: A Biorefinery approach
AU - Medina, Jesus David Coral
AU - Adenise, Woiciechowski
AU - Filho, Arion Zandona
AU - Singh - Nee Nigam, Poonam
AU - Ramos, Luiz Pereira
AU - Socco, Carlos Ricardo
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - The oil palm empty fruit bunches (EFB) are an attractive source of carbon for the production of biochemical products, therefore, the aim of this work is to analyze the effect of the steam explosion (SE) pretreatment under autocatalytic conditions on EFB using a full experimental design. Temperature and reaction time were the operational variables studied. The EFB treated at 195 °C for 6 min showed an increase of 34.69% in glycan (mostly cellulose), and a reduction of 68.12% in hemicelluloses, with increased enzymatic digestibility to 33% producing 4.2 g L−1 of glucose. Scanning electron micrographs of the steam treated EFB exhibited surface erosion and an increased fiber porosity. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy showed the solubilization of hemicellulose and modification of cellulose in treated EFB.
AB - The oil palm empty fruit bunches (EFB) are an attractive source of carbon for the production of biochemical products, therefore, the aim of this work is to analyze the effect of the steam explosion (SE) pretreatment under autocatalytic conditions on EFB using a full experimental design. Temperature and reaction time were the operational variables studied. The EFB treated at 195 °C for 6 min showed an increase of 34.69% in glycan (mostly cellulose), and a reduction of 68.12% in hemicelluloses, with increased enzymatic digestibility to 33% producing 4.2 g L−1 of glucose. Scanning electron micrographs of the steam treated EFB exhibited surface erosion and an increased fiber porosity. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy showed the solubilization of hemicellulose and modification of cellulose in treated EFB.
KW - Pretreatment
KW - Biorefinery
KW - Biomass
UR - https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/publications/steam-explosion-pretreatment-of-oil-palm-empty-fruit-bunches-efb--3
U2 - 10.1016/j.biortech.2015.08.126
DO - 10.1016/j.biortech.2015.08.126
M3 - Article
VL - 199
SP - 173
EP - 180
JO - Bioresource Technology
JF - Bioresource Technology
ER -