Abstract
This study investigated the process intensification strategies for the pretreatment of Radiata Pine with the green deep eutectic solvent (DES) system composed of benzyltrimethylammonium chloride/formic acid (BTMAC/FA). The results showed that DES pretreatment drastically improved the delignification and hemicelluloses-removal capacity. The conducted process acceptably remained most of the cellulose in pretreated biomass (88.3%–91.8%). Benefiting from the overcoming of recalcitrance, the enzymatic digestibility of pretreated residues reached 92.4%. The efficient conversion was mainly ascribed to the lignin and hemicelluloses co-extraction. Meanwhile, the lignin yield and enzymatic saccharification was still largely maintained after five reuses. Further structural characteristics of lignin nanoparticles revealed that the lignin possessed high purity (95.19–97.51%), medium molecular weight (9600 to 6495 g/mol), and low polydispersity (ca 2.0), which was attributed to cleavage of ether bonds in lignin as well as linkages between lignin and hemicelluloses. Overall, this study illustrated that DES pretreatment was promising to achieve an efficient fractionation of woody biomass into fermentable glucose and high-quality lignin.
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