Evaluación de pretratamientos químicos sobre materiales lignocelulósicos

Abstract

The efficiency in ethanol production from lignocellulosic materials depends on high grade on the degree of lignin removal. Lignin presence limits cellulose hydrolysis and fermentation. In this work, was determined the effect of different chemical pretreatments on chemical composition and crystallinity on the lignocellulosic materials, wood chips, cane bagasse, and rice husks. Pretreatments evaluated were carried out applying sulfuric acid or sodium hydroxide or their combination over each material. The combined pretreatment allowed to obtain the highest lignine removal. For cane bagasse it was obtained an 80.6% of lignine removal, while for wood chip and rice husks lignine was removed in 46.7%. However one important cellulose loss of 30.7% was observed from bagasse cane and 15.8% from rice husks. DRX analysis showed an increase in the crystallinity for wood chip and cane bagasse.