Felicia Rodríguez

Dr. Felicia Rodríguez

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Academic Career Length

10Years (2017-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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22 December 2021 in Molecules
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FRFelicia Rodríguez
Felicia Rodríguez
EAEFREN AGUILAR
EFREN AGUILAR
ASAdrián Santiago-Toribio
Adrián Santiago-Toribio
Arturo SanchezArturo Sanchez
Arturo Sanchez
Hydrothermal pretreatment (HP) is an eco-friendly process for deconstructing lignocellulosic biomass (LCB) that plays a key role in ensuring the profitability of producing biofuels or bioproducts in a biorefinery. At the laboratory scale, HP is usually carried out under non-isothermal regimes with poor temperature control. In contrast, HP is usually carried out under isothermal conditions at the commercial scale. Consequently, significant discrepancies in the values of polysaccharide releases are found in the literature. Therefore, laboratory-scale HP data are not trustworthy if scale-up or retrofitting of HP at larger scales is required. This contribution presents the results of laboratory-scale batch HP for wheat straw in terms of xylan and glucan release that were obtained with rigorous temperature control under isothermal conditions during the reaction stage. The heating and cooling stages were carried out with fast rates (43 and −40 °C/min, respectively), minimizing non-isothermal reaction periods. Therefore, the polysaccharide release results can be associated exclusively with the isothermic reaction stage and can be considered as a reliable source of information for HP at commercial scales. The highest amount of xylan release was 4.8 g/L or 43% obtained at 180 °C and 20 min, while the glucan release exhibited a maximum of 1.2 g/L or 5.5%. at 160 °C/180 °C and 30 min.

20 April 2017 in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
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FRFelicia Rodríguez
Felicia Rodríguez
Arturo SanchezArturo Sanchez
Arturo Sanchez
CPCarolina Parra
Carolina Parra