Environmental and Climate Technologies (Nov 2020)

Multi-Criteria Analysis of Lignocellulose Substrate Pre-Treatment

  • Vamza Ilze,
  • Valters Karlis,
  • Blumberga Dagnija

DOI
https://doi.org/10.2478/rtuect-2020-0118
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 24, no. 3
pp. 483 – 492

Abstract

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Due to growing topicality of indirect land use change, greater shift towards second generation biofuels should be observed. In order to help smaller biogas and bioethanol producers, multi-criteria analysis of lignocellulose pre-treatment is conducted to elucidate the most preferable approach for lignocellulose pre-treatment. There are four main pre-treatment groups – biological, chemical, physical and physochemical pre-treatment. In this article three pre-treatment types were described by highlighting their specific approaches; using multi-criteria analysis a conclusion was reached that the most preferable pre-treatment option for lignocellulose biomass like corn stover or sugarcane is microbiological pre-treatment, as it showed the closest proximity to ideal solution.

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