Under the supervision of Ling Liang, a process engineer, she worked on figuring out how effective lignin -
derived ionic liquids, solvents used in a variety of renewable energy applications, would be for biomass pretreatment.
The furfural and p - anisaldehyde
derived ionic liquids performed best with both providing 90 — 95 % glucose and 70 — 75 % xylose yields from switchgrass after 72 hours incubation with digestive enzymes.
Not exact matches
The researchers made their
ionic liquids using furfural, vanillin and p - anisaldehyde, which are aromatic aldehydes
derived from lignin and cellulose.
Researchers in China have generated gasoline fuel with a research octane number of 95.4 from biomass -
derived γ - valerolactone (GVL)-- the highest octane number reported for biomass -
derived gasoline fuel — using an
ionic liquid catalyst.