Modelling, design and operation of a pretreatment reactor for lignocellulosic biomass

Teresa López-Arenasa, Mauricio Sales-Cruza, Jesús Alvarezb and Alexander Schaumc,    aDepartamento de Procesos y Tecnología, UAM-Cuajimalpa, Artificios 40, Mexico D.F., 01120, Mexico, bDepartamento de Procesos e Hidráulica, UAM-Iztapalapa, Apdo. 55534, México D.F., 09340, México, cDepartamento de Matemáticas Aplicadas y Sistemas, UAM-Cuajimalpa, Artificios 40, Mexico D.F., 01120, Mexico

Abstract

Motivated by the importance of the pretreatment step for the production of biobased products (such as bioethanol), this paper addresses the problem of modelling, design and optimization of operating conditions of a non-isothermal continuous reactor where the acid pretreatment ...

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