Various agricultural crop residues including corn stover,corn cob,and sorghum stalk with a moisture content of 75 wt%were subjected to a long pretreatment(12–60 h)with supercritical CO_2(scCO_2),at low temperature(50...Various agricultural crop residues including corn stover,corn cob,and sorghum stalk with a moisture content of 75 wt%were subjected to a long pretreatment(12–60 h)with supercritical CO_2(scCO_2),at low temperature(50–80°C)and a pressure of 17.5–25.0 MPa.The sugar yields from the enzymatic hydrolysis(EH)of the pretreated samples were as much as three-to fourfold greater than those afforded by the raw materials.However,when pretreatment was conducted within a short time(e.g.0.5 h),as previously reported in the literature,only a slight increase in the EH sugar yields was observed.The proposed sc CO_2pretreatment mechanism demonstrated the role of moisture in the system.Wetting,softening,and swelling were observed to mainly affect the lignocellulose when a suitable amount of water was added.Finally,the samples were analysed by X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy,before and after pretreatment,to investigate the changes in the microscopic structure of the biomass.展开更多
基金financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21376045, 21506027)Chinese Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2015M571307)+1 种基金Petrochemicals Joint Fund between the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the China National Petroleum Corporation (U1662130)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
文摘Various agricultural crop residues including corn stover,corn cob,and sorghum stalk with a moisture content of 75 wt%were subjected to a long pretreatment(12–60 h)with supercritical CO_2(scCO_2),at low temperature(50–80°C)and a pressure of 17.5–25.0 MPa.The sugar yields from the enzymatic hydrolysis(EH)of the pretreated samples were as much as three-to fourfold greater than those afforded by the raw materials.However,when pretreatment was conducted within a short time(e.g.0.5 h),as previously reported in the literature,only a slight increase in the EH sugar yields was observed.The proposed sc CO_2pretreatment mechanism demonstrated the role of moisture in the system.Wetting,softening,and swelling were observed to mainly affect the lignocellulose when a suitable amount of water was added.Finally,the samples were analysed by X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy,before and after pretreatment,to investigate the changes in the microscopic structure of the biomass.
