Special Issue "Biorefining Applications of Lignocellulosic"
Special Issue Editor
Interests: lignocellulosic materials; agri-wastes; pulping; papermaking; bio-refining; liquid chromatography; spectroscopy techniques
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of Fibers intends to cover recent advances in the biorefining applied on lignocellulosic materials. Biorefining is a wide range term defining a technological process which aims at converting biomass into value added products including materials, feedstocks for other industries, chemicals and energy. Lignocellulosic materials are the most abundant category of biomass. These are characterized by diversity in terms of sources and chemical composition. Generally accepted main types of raw lignocellulosics are wood, forestry or agricultural residues and spontaneous growing plants.
In terms of chemical composition it is worth reminding that the main components are natural polymers: cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, while the usual minor components include minor sugars, pectins, phenolics, terpenes, tanins and also minerals.
The processing of wood into pulp and paper is the traditional example of biorefining of lignocellulosics to materials such as pulp for papermaking, tall oil and also energy from burning black liquor which contains lignin and hemicelluloses and their degradation products. While running short on raw materials due to the advancement of deforestation attempt to replace wood with other sources of virgin fiber are undergoing. The new concepts of integrated fractionation or integrated fiber based biorefinery are aiming at overcoming the disadvantage caused by the variability in chemical composition of non-wood resources. Research efforts are targeting both the finding of the particular and specific and optimal conditions of raw materials components separation as well as on best usage and value adding of the all separated components: cellulose fibers are raw materials for the production of a wide range of products: paper, bioplastics and microfibrilated cellulose with high-tech end uses. Hemicelluloses are potential candidates raw materials for sugars (e.g. xylose, arabinose) and fine organic chemicals or biofuels, while lignin is a promising candidate for the production of phenolic derivatives, adhesives, carbon nano-fibers, bio-oils, biofuels and bio-protection agents.
Dr. Adrian Catalin Puitel
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Biomass
- Integrated fractionation
- Sugars
- Biomaterials
- Biofuels
- Hemicelluloses
- Lignin
- Fine chemicals