Kraft lignin biorefinery: A perspective

Jianjun Hu; Quanguo Zhang; Duu-Jong Lee

doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2017.08.169

Kraft lignin biorefinery: A perspective

Jianjun Hu
, Quanguo Zhang
, Duu-Jong Lee^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Lignin is a huge energy and carbon reserve but owing to its highly biologically recalcitrant nature it is commonly regarded as a waste in lignocellulosic biomass biorefinery. To realize the lignin biorefinery, it is proposed to use Kraft lignin, isolated from black liquor from Kraft pulping mills, as starting material to be fragmented by fast pyrolysis or selective catalysis to aromatic sub-units and to be post-refining with additional cleavage reaction and separation/purification as commodity aromatics pool in chemical industries. This Note calls for research efforts on detailed investigation of the feasibility of this proposed scenario.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1181-1183
Journal	Bioresource Technology
Volume	247
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2017.08.169
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2018
Externally published	Yes

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Aromatics
Biorefinery
Lignin
Pulping

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