Biomass Preprocessing for Biofuels Production: Mechanical, Chemical and Thermal Methods

2017 | Science & Mathematics

Biomass mechanical separation and densification methods, such as size reduction, fractionation, and densification, have significant impacts on both biochemical and thermochemical conversion processes. Thermal pretreatments like torrefaction and hydrothermal carbonization make biomass suitable for co-firing, pyrolysis, and gasification, whereas chemical pretreatments like washing, leaching, acid, alkali, and ammonia fiber explosion make biomass more suitable for enzymatic conversion. This book explores how mechanical separations and chemical and thermal pretreatment methods can be integrated to make biomass highly suitable for biofuel production.

J. Richard Hess (Author)