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Title Resource Recovery Potential From Lignocellulosic Feedstock Upon Lysis With Ionic Liquids
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Authors Padrino, B; Lara-Serrano, M; Morales-delaRosa, S; Campos-Martín, JM; Fierro, JLG; Martínez, F; Melero, JA; Puyol, D
Title Resource Recovery Potential From Lignocellulosic Feedstock Upon Lysis With Ionic Liquids
Year 2018
Published
DOI 10.3389/fbioe.2018.00119
Abstract Lignocellulosic residues from energy crops offer a high potential to recover bioproducts and biofuels that can be used as raw matter for agriculture activities within a circular economy framework. Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a well-established driver to convert these residues into energy and bioproducts. However, AD of lignocellulosic matter is slow and yields low methane potential, and therefore several pre-treatment methods have been proposed to increase the energy yield of this process. Hereby, we have assessed the pre-treatment of lignocellulosic biomass (barley straw) with the ionic liquid (IL) 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium acetate and its effect on the biochemical methane potential (BMP). The BMP of the residue was evaluated at different inoculum to substrate (VS) ratios and working under meso and thermophilic conditions. Solids destruction upon AD is highly enhanced by the IL-pretreatment. This also resulted in a higher BMP, both in mesophilic as well as thermophilic conditions. At the optimum I/S ratio of 2:1 (dried weight, dw), the BMP of the IL-pre-treated feedstock increased 28 and 80% for 35 days of thermophilic and mesophilic AD, respectively, as compared to the fresh feedstock, achieving values of 364 and 412 LCH4/kgTS. We also explored the effect of this pretreatment on the phosphorus recovery potential from the digestate upon release from the AD process. Thermophilic anaerobic digestion of IL-pre-treated biomass provided the highest P recovery potential from lignocellulosic residues (close to 100% of the theoretical P content of the lignocellulosic feedstock). Therefore, the pretreatment of lignocellulosic feedstock with IL before AD is a promising platform to obtain bioenergy and recover P to be regained for the agriculture sector.
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Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)
EID WOS:000443788000001
WoS Category Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology; Engineering, Biomedical
Research Area Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology; Engineering
PDF https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbioe.2018.00119/pdf
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