Averheim, Andreas
- Institutionen för skogens biomaterial och teknologi, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
This thesis focuses on the valorization of softwood bark via a steam explosion processing step. A mixed softwood bark from an industrial source was steam exploded in a scalable system for continuous steam explosion. Two pathways for converting the steam-exploded bark into marketable products were investigated.The first path focused on sugars and bioethanol from the steam-exploded bark via enzymatic hydrolysis and fermentation. By studying enzymatic digestibility for substrates steam-exploded at a variety of conditions (autohydrolysis and dilute acid hydrolysis), it could be determined that conversion into glucose was modest (
ctivated carbon; adsorption; enzymatic hydrolysis; fermentation; furfural; 2-naphthol; Raman spectroscopy; softwood bark; steam explosion
Acta Universitatis Agriculturae Sueciae
2024, nummer: 2024:61
Utgivare: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Skogsvetenskap
Biomaterial
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/130456