Pre-treatment of lignocellulosic biomass using ionic liquids: Wheat straw fractionation

Engineering & Materials Science

• Lignocellulosic biomass 99%
• Ionic liquids 98%
• Fractionation 94%
• Straw 87%
• Cellulose 78%
• Lignin 66%
• Carbohydrates 50%
• Enzymatic hydrolysis 26%
• Glucose 20%
• Biomass 16%
• Recovery 12%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• ionic liquid 100%
• straw 72%
• cellulose 68%
• wheat 65%
• fractionation 59%
• lignin 56%
• biomass 43%
• carbohydrate 35%
• digestibility 25%
• methodology 20%
• glucose 16%
• acetate 16%
• hydrolysis 16%
• method 7%

Chemistry

• Lignin 71%
• Fractionation 63%
• Ionic Liquid 54%
• Hemicellulose 28%
• 1-Ethyl-3-Methylimidazolium 27%
• Enzymatic Hydrolysis 25%
• Purity 24%
• Carbohydrate 19%
• Glucose 17%
• Acetate 16%
• Reaction Yield 9%