Protic ionic liquids (PILs) are promising pretreatment agents that can efficiently deconstruct lignocellulosic biomass for 2G ethanol production. PIL synthesis is less costly than that of aprotic imidazolium-based ILs ...

Pretreatment of lignocellulosic materials is an important step to achieve higher amounts of simple sugars, mono- and disaccharides, for obtaining ethanol as a biofuel, via enzymatic hydrolysis. The study introduces a concept ...

Protic ionic liquids have been demonstrated to be a promising alternative for the pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomasses, since they can provide higher enzymatic hydrolysis yields than other commonly used pretreatments. ...

The use of protic ammonium ionic liquids (PILs) in the pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass is a promising alternative to using expensive aprotic ionic liquids such as 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium acetate, [Emim][OAc]. ...

Ionic liquids (ILs) have great potential as solvents and catalysts for pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass. However, process scale-up necessitates that IL-based pretreatment methods be optimized in terms of cost and ...

Ionic liquids have been called designer solvents because it is possible to fine-tune their properties from a huge range of possible combinations of cations and anions. In this work, we evaluate the potential of protic ionic ...

Despite the water consumption of the first-generation ethanol (1G) production from sugarcane being widely studied, there are only a few experimental studies on water consumption — especially in the pulp washing — in second ...

Tomato pomace is an abundant lignocellulosic waste stream from industrial tomato processing and therefore a potential feedstock for production of renewable biofuels. However, little research has been conducted to determine ...

Biomass pretreatment with protic ionic liquids (PILs) is a promising source of renewable energy and bioproducts, in which different cation/anion combinations may present different behavior towards biomass modification such ...