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[Display omitted] • Autohydrolysis enhanced the delignification of p -TsOH post-treatment of poplar. • Unexpectedly, the glucose yields of combined pretreated poplar decreased. • The intensified surface lignin coverage hindered the enzymatic hydrolysis. • Tween 80 enabled the excellent enzymatic hydrolysis of combined pretreated poplars. In this study, a combined pretreatment involving autohydrolysis and p -toluenesulfonic acid (p -TsOH) was performed on poplar to coproduce xylooligosaccharides (XOSs) and monosaccharides. The autohydrolysis (180 °C, 30 min) yielded 53.2 % XOS and enhanced the delignification efficiency in the subsequent p -TsOH treatment. Furthermore, considerably high glucan contents (64.1 %∼83.1 %) were achieved in the combined pretreated substrates. However, their enzymatic digestibilities were found to be extremely poor (9.6 %∼14.2 %), which were even lower than the single p -TsOH pretreated substrates (10.2 %∼35.8 %). The underlying reasons were revealed by systematically investigating the effects of the single and combined pretreatment strategies on substrate properties. Moreover, the Tween 80 addition successfully reversed the adverse effects of combined pretreatment on the enzymatic hydrolysis, achieving a high glucose yield of 99.3 % at an enzyme loading of 10 filter paper units/g (FPU/g) glucan. These results deepen the understanding of the synergy of combined pretreatment on biomass fractionation and enzymatic saccharification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A thorough assessment of the microstructural changes and synergistic effects of hydrothermal and/or ultrafine grinding pretreatment on the subsequent enzymatic hydrolysis of corn stover was performed in this study. The mechanism of pretreatment was elucidated by characterizing the particle size, specific surface area (SSA), pore volume (PV), average pore size, cellulose crystallinity (CrI) and surface morphology of the pretreated samples. In addition, the underlying relationships between the structural parameters and final glucose yields were elucidated, and the relative significance of the factors influencing enzymatic hydrolyzability were assessed by principal component analysis (PCA). Hydrothermal pretreatment at a lower temperature (170 °C) combined with ultrafine grinding achieved a high glucose yield (80.36%) at a low enzyme loading (5 filter paper unit (FPU)/g substrate) which is favorable. The relative significance of structural parameters in enzymatic hydrolyzability was SSA > PV > average pore size > CrI/cellulose > particle size. PV and SSA exhibited logarithmic correlations with the final enzymatic hydrolysis yield. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: In the present work, a combined (acid + thermal) pretreatment was applied for the enhanced fermentative H2 production (FHP) from Laminaria japonica. Various pretreatment conditions including HCl concentrations, heating temperatures, and reaction times were optimized via response surface methodology (RSM) with a Box-Behnken design (BBD). Through regression analysis, it was found that H2 yield was well fitted by a quadratic polynomial equation (R 2 = 0.97), and the HCl concentration was the most significant factor influencing FHP. The desirable pretreatment conditions found were HCl concentration of 4.8%, temperature of 93 °C, and reaction time of 23 min, under which H2 yield reached to 159.6 mL H2/g dry cell weight (dcw). The main organic acids produced were acetic and butyric acids that related closely with H2 production. The concentration of hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF), a byproduct formed during the pretreatment process, showed an inverse relationship with H2 yield, indicating that pretreatment conditions for the H2 production from L. japonica were successfully optimized, by increasing the hydrolysis rate of the feedstock and also reducing the formation of HMF. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: Two novel two-step pretreatments for enzymatic hydrolysis of rice hull (RH) were proposed to lower the severity requirement of fungal pretreatment time. They consisted of a mild physical or chemical step (ultrasonic and H2O2) and a subsequent biological treatment (Pleurotus ostreatus). The combined pretreatments led to significant increases of the lignin degradation than those of one step pretreatments. After enzymatic hydrolysis of the pretreated RH, the net yields of total soluble sugar (TS) and glucose (G) increased greatly. The combined pretreatment of H2O2 (2%, 48h) and P. ostreatus (18d) was more effective than sole pretreatment of P. ostreatus for 60d. It could remarkably shorten the residence time and reduce the losses of carbohydrates. Ligninase analyses and SEM observations indicated that the enhancing of the efficiency could possibly attribute to the structure disruption of the RH during the first pretreatment step. So, the combined pretreatment could be recommended to different lignocellulosic materials for enzyme based conversions. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]