Rice straw structure changes following green pretreatment with petha wastewater for economically viable bioethanol production.

ABSTRACT: Energy efficient and environment friendly pretreatment processes for the production of biofuel have remained elusive and the research is further compounded by the high cost of processing lignocellulosic biomass-an essential factor for producing sustainable biofuels. In the last few decades, a number of pretreatment methods have been proposed, specifically chemical pretreatments but are either expensive or harmful to the environment. To address this urgent need, we propose a green pretreatment method that utilises the highly alkaline by-product, petha wastewater to pretreat the lignocellulosic waste rice straw (RS). The effectiveness of the pretreatment was analysed by monitoring both enhanced cellulose content and reducing sugar yield along with removal of hemicellulose and lignin. We foun

SUBMITTER: Kumari D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9213452 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature