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Abstract
Separation of cellulose from agricultural straw is one of the key bottlenecks hindering the application of such kind of biomass resources. In this chapter, we provide three environmental-friendly ways for separation of cellulose from agricultural straw pretreated with steam explosion, which include delignification with recyclable water-polar aprotic organic solvent, selective bio-degradation of the lignin component, and extraction of cellulose with imidazolium-based ionic liquids from the steam-exploded rice straw. The isolated rice straw celluloses have been adopted as an enhancement for all-cellulose composites (ACCs) and cellulose/cement composites. Ultra-high tensile strength (650.2 MPa) can be achieved for the ACCs containing the activated straw cellulose fiber (A-SCF). The cellulose/cement composites show a significant promotion in the flexural strength and fracture toughness. The new nonderivative solvent for cellulose, tetrabutylammonium hydroxide (TBAH) aqueous solution with urea as additives has been proved to be manipulable for dissolving cellulose.
Keywords
- rice straw
- steam explosion
- cellulose
- ionic liquids
- all-cellulose composites
- cellulose/cement composites
- cellulose solvent
1. Introduction
Due to the ever-growing demand for energy, environmental impact caused by pollution, and the depletion of fossil fuel reserves, the demand for materials from renewable resources has become an important matter [1, 2]. Lignocellulose biomass is considered one of replacing chemicals as well as fuels based on oil [3]. Agricultural residues is one of the most valuable and renewable lignocellulosic biomass as well as a promising alternative for cellulosic materials. Among different sources of agricultural residues, rice straw has been extensively investigated because it is one of the most consumed cereals in the world, about 650–975 million tons per year all over the world [4, 5]. Rice straw is composed of approximately 35% cellulose, 18% hemicellulose, and 15% lignin [6]. It can be used as raw material for conversion to high value-added products through chemical, biochemical and physical processes. However, cellulose is usually accompanied by other structural biopolymers, saying hemicellulose, and lignin. Therefore, determination of methods for the efficient separation of the constitutive biomass components has long been the major obstacles to its utilization.
Thus, novel environmental-friendly processes have been developed continuously, which include steam explosion [7], organosolv processing [8], the chlorine-free method [5], biological treatment [9], and ionic liquid isolation [10]. In this chapter, a brief review on the separation of rice straw cellulose in sustainable ways and the related utilization of the cellulose enhanced composites are systematically presented.
2. Steam explosion as pretreatment of rice straw
2.1. Introduction
Steam explosion (SE) has been a well-known technology for the pretreatment of straws during the separation of cellulose [11, 12, 13]. The critical process is the high-temperature hydrothermal treatment followed by a sudden exposure to atmospheric pressure [14].
During processing, the major hemicelluloses are partially hydrolyzed (autohydrolysis) due to high temperature transforming the acetyl groups connected with hemicellulose into acetic acid. Part of lignin can be depolymerized and leaving on the cellulose [15]. It is reported that the hydrolysis of hemicellulose separation was related to the reaction time and the pressure in the reactor [16]. For example, with the optimum condition (215°C, 7.5 min), a high-yield of sugar (81%) and ethanol (12.4%) can be obtained [17]. Therefore, the critical issue is a suitable condition of parameters, such as cooking time and the pressure, for efficient removal of hemicelluloses during the steam explosion which has been optimized by Zhou et al. [18]with a regression method in statistics.
2.2. Optimizing of conditions for steam explosion
Naturally dried rice straw was cut into pieces of about 2–3 cm in length and then shredded in a high-speed pulverizing mill. The crushing process was necessary for the effective infiltration of steam into the cell. The rice straw was then put into the reactor with a solid to liquid ratio of 3:1 (w/w). The high-temperature steam was poured in by opening a valve and cooked for a specified time, followed by explosion procedure.
A series of experiments were designed to investigate the effects of pressure
where, m is the number of independent factors and “3” is the number of experiments in the central point, which could improve the accuracy of the regression.
The spatial distribution of these two factors (
Normalized | Pressure | Cooking time |
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1.414 | 3.2 | 32 |
1.000 | 3.0 | 30 |
0.000 | 2.5 | 25 |
−1.000 | 2.0 | 20 |
−1.414 | 1.8 | 18 |
The details of the experimental plan as well as the content of hemicelluloses and cellulose of the steam-exploded straw are shown in Table 2. The sample 11 of steam explosion in Table 2 is selected for the comparison of the main components with the original rice straw. It is clear that most of the hemicelluloses can be hydrolyzed and extracted at the proper set of conditions for the steam explosion.
No. | Treatment severity lg | DPc | ||||
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Rice straw | — | — | — | 17.98 | 35.06 | 1123 |
1 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 6.19 | 3.01 | 70.43 | 229.5 |
2 | −1.000 | 1.000 | 5.60 | 8.66 | 69.85 | 303.3 |
3 | 1.000 | −1.000 | 6.01 | 3.84 | 65.03 | 198.4 |
4 | −1.000 | −1.000 | 5.42 | 3.25 | 67.58 | 272.7 |
5 | 0 | 1.414 | 5.92 | 6.29 | 72.96 | 360.2 |
6 | 0 | −1.414 | 5.67 | 6.68 | 70.51 | 276.2 |
7 | 1.414 | 0 | 6.25 | 2.72 | 61.77 | 246.0 |
8 | −1.414 | 0 | 5.37 | 8.46 | 70.49 | 418.6 |
9 | 0 | 0 | 5.81 | 1.45 | 64.80 | 268.3 |
10 | 0 | 0 | 5.81 | 1.38 | 64.72 | 266.0 |
11 | 0 | 0 | 5.81 | 1.10 | 64.65 | 270.9 |
The value of lgRo is proportional to the strength of steam explosion. Additional hydrolysis of α-Cellulose may happen along with higher lgRo, as indicated by sample 7 in Table 2.
Experimental data in Table 2 have been fitted to the following second-order polynomial:
where
Symbols | SCAN viscosity | ||
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1.31 | 64.72 | 268.42 | |
−1.65 | −1.79 | −48.76 | |
0.50 | 1.34 | 26.80 | |
1.80 | 0.54 | 14.93 | |
2.25 | 3.28 | 4.85 | |
−1.56 | 0.78 | 6.95 | |
0.896 | 0.861 | 0.332 |
Since the regression has established good models (Eqs. 5 and 6) describing the relationships between independent factors (referring to
As discussed earlier, the aims of the steam explosion maximizing the removal of the γ-Cellulose and the loss of α-Cellulose. From the observation, there is no serious contradiction between these two aims, since the nadir of γ-Cellulose and α-Cellulose locates at the center and the edge, respectively. Therefore, the optimal condition for the steam explosion is 2.74 MPa and 25.3 min, according to the data in Table 4. Under the optimal condition, the structure of steam-exploded rice straw showed the characteristics of soft, loose and porous with different sizes distributed though all of the fiber (as shown in Figure 3a), which supported further separation of cellulose and lignin. The most of hemicelluloses could be efficiently hydrolyzed, leaving only 1% residual hemicelluloses. However, the majority of cellulose, as well as the fragmentized lignin, were retained in the size, which could be identified by the SEM observations (Figure 3a) and the FTIR spectra (Figure 3b) [18].
Scaled factor | Factor | Scaled factor | Factor | |
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Pressure | 0.481 | 2.74 | 1.414 | 3.20 |
Reaction time | 0.056 | 25.3 | −0.374 | 23.1 |
Content of cellulose | 0.93 | 62.82 |
3. Posttreatment of steam-exploded rice straw
3.1. Selective dissolution of cellulose using ionic liquids
Ionic liquids (ILs) are emerging as promising solvents for treatment of lignocelluloses [19, 20, 21, 22, 23], due to its low vapor pressures. These solvents are made up of large organic cations and small inorganic anions, which have the following key properties: (a) they are liquids below 100°C or even at room temperature; (b) high thermal stability; and (c) high polarity [24]. These properties allow to be easily adjusted to dissolve diversity of lignocellulosic biomass [25, 26, 27]. Since several kinds of ionic liquids have been found to be non-derivatized solvents for cellulose, they have been applied in such research fields as capturing the portrait of single cellulose molecule [25], and chemical modification of cellulose [19]. In this section, ionic liquids are used in separation of cellulose from steam-exploded rice straw. It is proved to be an efficient and environmentally friendly way to selectively dissolve and then recover cellulose [6].
Four kinds of ionic liquids: 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride (BMIMCl), 1-allyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride (AMIMCl), 1-benzyl-3-methyl-imidazolium chloride (BnMIMCl) and 1-benzyl-3-methyl-imidazolium trifluoroacetate (BnMIMTFA) have been synthesized according to literature [20]. Their solubility for cellulose and lignin are shown in Table 5. The results indicate that BnMIMCl and BnMIMTFA are efficient for dissolving lignin. BMIMCl and AMIMCl are efficient for dissolving cellulose.
Ionic liquid | AMIMCl (%) | BMIMCl (%) | BnMIMTFA (%) | BnMIMCl (%) |
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Cellulose | 5.2 | 4.9 | ||
Lignin | 4.9 | 3.9 |
AMIMCl is selected as a selective solvent to separate cellulose from the steam-exploded rice straw. The contents of acid-insoluble lignin and celluloses of the steam-exploded rice straw are 14.76 and 64.80% respectively. After dissolving in AMIMCl, there is only 0.90% acid insoluble lignin contained in the recovered cellulose. With a procedure of bleaching by immersing the separated cellulose into hydrogen peroxide aqueous solution together with ozone blowing (about 3.4 g/h produced by SZH5 ozone apparatus, Peking) was needed for bleaching. The bleached cellulose was finally obtained with a yield of 30.73%. The component analysis according to TAPPI standard methods (T 222 om-06 and T 203 cm-09) indicated no detectable acid-insoluble lignin and only 0.85% of hemicelluloses left in the final cellulose. The average degree of polymerization (DP) was 484.
The SEM image and XRD profile of the bleached cellulose are shown in Figure 4. As seen in Figure 4a, cellulose fibers could be observed clearly with average lengths more than 100 μm. The prominent peak at 22.13° denotes the (002) reflection (as shown in Figure 4b). However, the characteristic (101) and (101) peaks (2θ between 15 and 17°) are not as distinct as those in cotton [24], but combine into one broad peak at 15.728°.
The FTIR spectra of the original rice straw, steam-exploded rice straw as well as the bleached cellulose had been provided, Figure 5a. The peaks at 1510, 1465 and 1423 cm−1 in the sample RS, corresponded to the skeleton stretch of the benzene ring, mainly contributed by lignin. These peaks reduced in steam-exploded sample and disappeared in the bleached cellulose, indicating that the lignin could be removed by selective dissolving of IL. The 13C CP/MAS solid-state NMR spectrum of the bleached cellulose shown in Figure 5b suggests that highly purified cellulose is obtained. The chemical shifts at 62 and 64 ppm are assigned to C6 of the primary alcohol group of cellulose, 71 and 74 ppm attributed to C2, C3 and C5, the ring carbons of cellulose. The peaks at 83 and 88 ppm associated with C4, and 104 ppm associated with C1. The feeble signals at 173 and 20 ppm attributed to the carbonyl and the methyl resonances, respectively.
3.2. Organosolve dissolution of lignin from the steam-exploded straw size
The organosolv process can effectively degrade lignin, which is mainly used osmosis to break and decompose the internal chemical bonds of cellulose and hemicellulose [28, 29, 30]. It is considered to be an environmentally friendly way because it can be recycled conveniently, which demonstrates its potential utilization in isolation of lignocellulosic biomass [8]. Moreover, the structure of the dissolved component will be protected from degrading under such moderate conditions, which is benefit for further utilization. The efficient solvent for delignification combined with steam explosion treatment has been realized as the separation of the three components that are cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin. However, few organosolv process have been proved attractive as regards efficiency and selectivity, even though intensive researches have been done [31, 32]. In this section, consideration has given on the effect of delignification with mixed solvent from steam-exploded rice straw under ambient pressure [18].
First, the rice straw is pretreated by steam explosion as the optimal conditions mentioned above. The steam-exploded rice straw was then washed with hot water (1:20 g/mL). After that, the residue was delignified by different mixed solvent to obtain crude cellulose. Finally, it was bleached with aqueous solution (1:30 g/mL, pH 11, 55°C) of 2% hydrogen peroxide and 0.2% TAED (tetraacetylethylenediamine) for 5 h.
The mixed solvent system and its results were summarized in Table 6. Comparing the delignification efficiency of H2O-Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) (sample 7, 63.27%), H2O-
No. | Solvent systema | Additives | Lignin residue (wt%) | Delignificationb (%) |
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1 | H2O-methanol | — | 7.52 | 57.13 |
2 | H2O-methanol | Formic acid | 5.09 | 70.98 |
3 | H2O-methanol | Terephthalic acid | 5.10 | 73.93 |
4 | H2O-methanol | Salicylic acid | 2.89 | 77.33 |
5 | H2O-methanol | Sodium hydroxide | 3.92 | 69.25 |
6 | H2O-methanol | Aniline | 3.51 | 79.99 |
7 | H2O-DMSO | — | 6.45 | 63.27 |
8 | H2O-NMP | — | 4.36 | 75.14 |
9 | H2O-DMF | — | 2.67 | 84.78 |
10 | H2O-DMF | Aniline | 0.87 | 95.04 |
Conclusively, the H2O-DMF-aniline solvent system (in a volume ratio of 20:10:1) demonstrated to be the most efficient solvent for removing lignin from the steam-exploded rice straw because the DMF and aniline included amino groups might improve the dissolution of lignin.
The FTIR spectrum of the original rice straw, the steam-exploded rice straw, the delignified sample with H2O-DMF-aniline and bleached cellulose shown Figure 6a indicated that the lignin in straw could be removed and obtained pure cellulose because the absorptions at 1511 and 1429 cm−1 assigned to the aromatic C=C stretch from aromatic ring in lignin became weak after the steam explosion (spectrum SERS) and delignification (spectrum DERS), and finally disappeared in the bleached cellulose (spectrum BC) [18].
Figure 6b indicated the 13C CP/MAS solid-state NMR spectra of the steam-exploded rice straw (SERS), delignified rice straw (DERS) and bleached cellulose (BC).All of these spectra were dominated by the resonances attributable to cellulose. Notably, two small peaks at 99.5 and 58.2 ppm in the spectrum of steam-exploded rice straw (pattern SERS) were assigned to lignin and they nearly disappear in spectrum DERS, BC, which were the delignified cellulose with the water-DMF-aniline solvent system and bleached cellulose, respectively.
3.3. Biological removal of lignin from the steam-exploded straw size
Biological treatments employ microorganisms and their enzyme systems to break down the lignin present in lignocellulosic biomass. This approach has recently attracted increased attention because of its mild condition, low energy consumption, and the absence of pollution [33, 34]. Among the microorganisms those are capable of degrading lignocelluloses, white rot fungi has a higher selectivity toward lignin with lower energy input, as well as being environmentally friendly [35].
One white rot fungus,
As the above processes, the orthogonal experiments (using L16 (4)5 orthogonal table) were designed (Table 8) to investigate the relationship between the delignification in SERS and the five factors. Each factor had been set based on the pretest results and a literature review (Table 7). Curves of the factors vs. the delignification was shown in Figure 7.
No. | Factor | Level 1 | Level 2 | Level 3 | Level 4 |
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A | Spore suspensions concentration (%) | 0.5 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 2.0 |
B | T-80 concentration (%) | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.4 |
C | Moisture content (%) | 65 | 70 | 75 | 80 |
D | Initial pH | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
E | SSF time (day (d)) | 7 | 14 | 21 | 28 |
According to Table 8, the maximum lignin loss rate, 64.25%, was obtained with the conditions of 1% spore suspension, 70% moisture content, 0.1% T-80, initial pH of 5.0, and 28 days of fermentation. The experimental outcomes could not be used as the best SSF conditions, so the orthogonal analysis should be performed. Table 8 shows the results of orthogonal analysis for five factors used in the fermentation process and the order of importance of these factors on lignin removal was E > C > B > D > A. Based on the
Test no. | Factors | Delignification (%) | ||||
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A | B | C | D | E | ||
1 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 65 | 3 | 7 | 16.63 |
2 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 70 | 4 | 14 | 49.68 |
3 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 75 | 5 | 21 | 56.37 |
4 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 80 | 6 | 28 | 37.92 |
5 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 70 | 5 | 28 | 64.25 |
6 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 65 | 6 | 21 | 52.78 |
7 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 80 | 3 | 14 | 28.75 |
8 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 75 | 4 | 7 | 17.02 |
9 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 75 | 6 | 14 | 48.43 |
10 | 1.5 | 0.2 | 80 | 5 | 7 | 8.65 |
11 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 65 | 4 | 28 | 62.65 |
12 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 70 | 3 | 21 | 53.46 |
13 | 2.0 | 0.1 | 80 | 4 | 21 | 39.15 |
14 | 2.0 | 0.2 | 75 | 3 | 28 | 57.97 |
15 | 2.0 | 0.3 | 70 | 6 | 7 | 24.06 |
16 | 2.0 | 0.4 | 65 | 5 | 14 | 43.06 |
160.60 | 168.46 | 175.81 | 156.81 | 66.36 | ||
162.80 | 169.08 | 191.45 | 168.50 | 170.61 | ||
173.19 | 171.83 | 179.79 | 173.02 | 201.76 | ||
164.93 | 152.15 | 114.47 | 163.19 | 222.79 | ||
40.15 | 42.12 | 43.95 | 39.20 | 16.59 | ||
40.70 | 42.27 | 47.86 | 42.12 | 42.65 | ||
43.30 | 42.96 | 44.95 | 43.25 | 50.44 | ||
41.23 | 38.04 | 28.62 | 40.80 | 55.70 | ||
3.15 | 4.92 | 19.24 | 4.05 | 39.11 |
According to the analysis presented above, the most important factor for delignification was SSF time. However, there was no top value of SSF time vs. delignification unlike the other four factors as shown in Figure 7. Hence, the effect of SSF time required further study.
Moisture was found to be significant to the delignification by
Figure 8 shows the effect of SSF time on the removal of lignin. The experimental results satisfactorily fitted the Boltzmann model with the decisive coefficient
Although the lignin degradation of steam-exploded rice straw is very important, too much weight loss is unexpected. The relationship between the SSF time and weight loss is shown in Figure 9, which turned out to be a linear relationship with decisive coefficient R
In comparison with the FTIR spectrum of untreated SERS (Figure 10a), prominent changes could be obtained in the samples degraded after different SSF timings. The increase in the intensity of peak at 1650 cm−1 showed higher abundance of C=O groups of lignin, demonstrating the aromatic lignin moieties altered by oxidation with lignin biodegradation. In addition, peaks at 1510 and 1431 cm−1 turned weakening with increasing treatment time, implying the aromatic skeletal carbon of lignin was destroyed by
4. High-value applications of cellulose isolated from straw
All-cellulose composites (AACs) have been proposed to meet the interfacial problem in the cellulose-based composites, where both the reinforcement phase and matrix are cellulose [41, 42, 43]. Zhou et al. [44] reported that ACCs, with microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) as the matrix and the straw cellulose fibers (SCFs) as the reinforcement agent exhibited an ultra-high tensile strength (650.2 MPa, Figure 11).
The mechanism for the high performance of alkali-treated SCF (N-SCF) and activated SCF (A-SCF) reinforced ACCs are shown in Figure 12. For the ACCs/N-SCF sample (Figure 12a), the reinforcement mechanism is possibly related to the removal of impurities and the increase of aspect ratio. For the ACCs/A-SCF sample (Figure 12b), the reinforcement mechanism can be possibly attributed to the fact that both A-SCF and MCC experience the same activation process. Due to successively pre-swell with solvents (water, ethanol,
Besides, the isolated cellulosic fibers of about 2–16 wt% can be introduced into the cement with a slurry vacuum de-watering technique [45]. It was found that the flexural strength and fracture toughness of the optimal sample were increased by 24.3% and 45 times, respectively.
Effective solvent system for cellulose dissolution is a long-standing goal due to the abundant hydroxyl groups on the cellulose chain form a strong, three-dimensional intermolecular and intramolecular hydrogen bonding network [46, 47]. Therefore, Zhou et al. [48] developed a new aqueous solvent for cellulose based on the quaternary ammonium hydroxide (TBAH). It was found that cellulose can be efficiently dissolved in a 40 wt% TBAH aq. solution under a cooling condition. The mechanism for the dissolution is believed to be the match of amphiphilicity between the solvent and cellulose crystal. Then, Zhou et al. [49] studied the effects of urea to the dissolution of cellulose in TBAH. It was found that a hybrid hydrate of TBAH and urea formed. Urea can serve as a hydrophobic contributor, by which the amphiphilic property of the solvent system can be adjusted. With a suitable amphiphilicity, interfacial resistance between the solvent and crystal surface can be reduced so that the crystal of natural cellulose can be effectively infiltrated and subsequently dissolved by the solvent. The schematic dissolution process of the cellulose is shown in Figure 13.
5. Conclusions
The steam explosion process is realized as a promising pre-treatment for the separation of cellulose from natural biomasses. It can make most of the hemicellulose hydrolyze and part of the lignin degrade, which results in loose and porous structures, which could ultimately support further separation of cellulose and lignin. One kind of ionic liquids, 1-allyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride (AMIMCl), is selected for the extraction of cellulose, due to its especially selective solubility for cellulose rather than lignin. This process with ionic liquids shows advantages of efficiency, environmentally friendly, and recyclability character. Isolation of cellulose with the organic solvent system that composes of H2O-DMF-aniline has proved that it also been considered as an environmental-friendly approach, and up to 95.04% lignin can be dissolved out from the steam-exploded rice straw, leaving quite a small amount of hemicellulose (<1%) and lignin (<0.85%). There is no obvious decrease in the degree of cellulose crystallinity during the delignification and bleaching processes. Approximately 58% lignin can be removed under selective delignification of the steam-exploded rice straw by
Acknowledgments
The authors acknowledge the financial support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51303151), the National Key Technology R&D Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (No. 2011BAE11B01), the Science and Technology Planning Project of Sichuan Province (No. 2016GZ0224,2016CZYZF0003), Sichuan Province Youth Science and Technology Innovation Team (No. 2016TD0026), Sichuan Province Science and Technology Innovation Talent Project (No. 2017072), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 2682016CX069).
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