Kinetic and Modeling Investigation on Dilute Sulfuric Acid and Hot Water Fractionation of Selected Biomass Plan

Research output: NRELSubcontract Report

Abstract

Subcontractor developed a processing model to evaluate and optimize an NREL-developed biomass pretreatment technology. The technology, taking advantage of the biphasic nature of hemicellulose in pretreatment, is a two-stage, reverse-flow, shrinking-bed system. The contract simulation found that this system could increase sugar yield by about 5%, with bed shrinkage of 27% and sugar yield of 95% atoptimum conditions.
Original languageAmerican English
Number of pages74
StatePublished - 2004

Bibliographical note

Work performed by Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama

NREL Publication Number

  • NREL/SR-510-36391

Keywords

  • biofuels
  • biomass
  • chemicals
  • ethanol
  • feedstocks
  • fuels
  • hemicellulose
  • pretreatment
  • shrinking bed

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