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Evaluation of Hydrothermal Pretreatment on Lignocellulose-Based Waste Furniture Boards for Enzymatic Hydrolysis

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Three typical waste furniture boards, including fiberboard, chipboard, and blockboard, were pretreated with conventional hydrothermal method. The responses of chemical composition, physicochemical morphology, and performances of enzymatic hydrolysis were evaluated. Results indicated the almost complete hemicellulose removal at higher pretreatment temperatures, the enhanced crystallinity index, and disordered morphology of the pretreated substrates indicated that the hydrothermal pretreatment deconstructed these boards well. However, the very low enzymatic hydrolysis (< 8% after 72 h) of the pretreated substrates showed the poor biological conversion. Three hypotheses for the weakened enzymatic hydrolysis were investigated, and results indicated that the residual adhesives and their degraded fractions were mainly responsible for poor hydrolysis. When NaOH post-pretreatment was attempted, cellulose-glucose conversion of the hydrothermally pretreated fiberboard, chipboard and blockboard can be improved to 28.5%, 24.1%, and 37.5%. Herein, the process of NaOH hydrothermal pretreatment was integrated, by which the hydrolysis of pretreated fiberboard, chipboard and blockboard was greatly promoted to 47.1%, 37.3%, and 53.8%, suggesting a possible way to pretreat these unconventional recalcitrant biomasses.

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Thanks for the Analytical & Testing Center in Sichuan University for the technical supports on SEM and XRD analysis.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant number 21978183).

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    Jingwen Zhao, Dong Tian, Fei Shen, Yongmei Zeng, Gang Yang, Churui Huang, Lulu Long & Shihuai Deng

  2. Rural Environment Protection Engineering & Technology Center of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, 211 Huimin Road, Wenjiang District, Chengdu, 611130, Sichuan, People’s Republic of China

    Jingwen Zhao, Dong Tian, Fei Shen, Yongmei Zeng, Gang Yang, Churui Huang, Lulu Long & Shihuai Deng

  3. Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Schulich School of Engineering, the University of Calgary, Calgary, T2N 4H9, Canada

    Jinguang Hu

  4. Department of Wood Science, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada

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Conceptualization: F.S.; methodology: J.Z. and D.T.; formal analysis and investigation: J.Z.; writing—original draft preparation: J.Z., and D.T.; writing—review and editing: J.H. and F.S.; funding acquisition: F.S.; supervision: F.S; resources, Y.Z., C.H., G.Y., L.L., and S.D.

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Zhao, J., Tian, D., Hu, J. et al. Evaluation of Hydrothermal Pretreatment on Lignocellulose-Based Waste Furniture Boards for Enzymatic Hydrolysis. Appl Biochem Biotechnol 192, 415–431 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12010-020-03315-9

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