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Chemistry and Industry of Forest Products ›› 2023, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (2): 135-142.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0253-2417.2023.02.017

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Enzymatic Digestibility of Ternary Deep Eutectic Solvent Pretreated Sugarcane Bagasse

Shunhui TAO1, Kexuan ZHANG1, Biying LI1, Xiaojie ZHENG1, Yao LIU1, Xiaoqing LIN1,2,3,*()   

  1. 1. School of Chemical Engineering and Light Industry, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
    2. Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Biorefinery, Guangzhou 510006, China
    3. Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Clean Transportation Energy Chemistry, Guangzhou 510006, China
  • Received:2022-01-28 Online:2023-04-28 Published:2023-04-26
  • Contact: Xiaoqing LIN E-mail:linxiaoqing@gdut.edu.cn

Abstract:

Sugarcane bagasse(SCB), a by-product of the sugar industry, was used as a lignocellulosic raw material. In the present study, a ternary deep eutectic solvent(DES) composed of triethylbenzyl ammonium chloride(TEBAC) with strong phase transfer catalytic ability, non-toxic and harmless glycerol(GL) and high-valence Lewis acid aluminum chloride hexahydrate(ACH), was used to pretreat SCB. The effects of molar ratio of ternary DES, reaction temperature, reaction time and solid-liquid mass ratio on the content of each component in SCB and cellulase enzymatic digestibility were systematically investigated. The results showed that the optimal pretreatment conditions were as follows: the molar ratio of nTEBAC: nGL: nACH was 1:2:0.05, the pretreatment time was 30 min, the pretreatment temperature was 120℃ and the solid-liquid ratio was 1:15. Under these conditions, the lignin removal rate was (86.23±2.11)%, and the cellulose retention rate was (94.51±2.03)%. The conversion of enzymatic hydrolysis cellulose was (98.21±1.02)%, which was 2 times higher than that of untreated SCB, and the yield of glucose was(81.94±1.98)%, which was increased by 1.5 times. The results of SEM, FT-IR and XRD analysisshowed that ternary DES pretreatment could effectively remove lignin and hemicellulose from SCB, and the crystallinity of celluloseincreased from 41.19% to 65.87% after pretreatment. Importantly, DES still maintained good pretreatment performance after 5cycles of recycling, and the cellulose conversion rate and glucose yield reached (92.36±1.64)% and (74.45±1.12)%, respectively.

Key words: ternary deep eutectic solvent, sugarcane bagasse, pretreatment, enzymatic digestibility

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