Fractionation Strategies

Abstract

Lignocellulosic biomass has recently attracted attention as a promising option for replacing non-renewable resources such as fossil fuels with biofuels and biochemical production. In industrial biorefinery processes, the fractionation of biomass into major or intermediate components plays an important role in converting it into value-added products. However, current biomass fractionation processes still have many technical and economic barriers to be industrialized, and further research is necessary. This chapter examines the important factors that should be considered when designing an effective fractionation process that completely utilizes all biomass components. Various chemical agents that can be used for effective fractionation, process design, fractionation efficiency, and fates and characteristics of the separated and recovered components are also discussed. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022.