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Chemical hydrolysis as a stage to prepare fermentation of lignocellulose: a review

EuroSciCon Conference on Chemistry and Green Chemistry Research

December 06-07, 2018 Amsterdam, Netherlands

GaweÃ?Â? Solowski, Izabela Konkol and Adam Cenian

Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Scientific Tracks Abstracts: Trends in Green chem

Abstract:

The golden age of fossils fuels is going to be finished. The landfill and seas are flooded with wastes. We need to find a new source of energy carrier and everyday-life products. An option is use of lignocellulosic wastes and releasing landfills from biowastes. In Poland, lignocellulosic wastes constitute 43% of municipal wastes (4.41 mln mg). However, they must be pre-treated in order to allow fermentation process. Here, the methods of lignocellulose pretreatment before fermentation processes are presented. Anaerobic digestion and dark fermentation are sustainable methods (technologies) responding to increasing demand for energy and products. The most efficient pre-treatment method seems to be chemical hydrolysis if compared to physical, biological, thermochemical ones and thus the review is concerned utmost with chemical methods.

Biography :

GaweÃ?Â? SoÃ?Â?owski has completed his Master Degree from Silesian University of Technology at Gliwice in 2014. Now, he is a PhD student at Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery Polish Academy of Science. He has been serving as an Assistant Editor in Open Chemistry by de Gruyter and published three papers in highly reputed journal.

E-mail: gsolowski@imp.gda.pl